diff

A command for showing repository changes together with related files from the dependency graph.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare the working tree or another Git reference, inspect changed files and related dependencies, and prepare for review or a pull-request description.
Why use it?
A normal code diff can omit surrounding files needed to understand how a change affects the project. This command adds that context within a chosen token limit.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/barnett-studios/cxpak/diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Barnett-Studios/cxpak
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 304 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00014 $0.00304
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash bae3fcc6e1c6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diff scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/commands/diff.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

/cxpak:diff

Show what changed in the repo with surrounding dependency context.

Steps

  1. Parse arguments. The user may pass a path (default .) and --git-ref <ref>.

  2. Ask for token budget. Ask: "Token budget for the diff? (default: 50k)" Default to 50k.

  3. Ask for git ref (optional). Ask: "Diff against which ref? (default: HEAD — shows uncommitted changes)" Common options: HEAD, main, a branch name, a commit SHA.

  4. Resolve cxpak binary:

    CXPAK="$("${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/ensure-cxpak")"
    
  5. Run the diff:

    "$CXPAK" diff --tokens <budget> --format markdown [--git-ref <ref>] <path>
    

    Omit --git-ref for the default (HEAD / working tree changes).

  6. Present the output. The diff contains:

    • Changes — actual diff hunks per file
    • Context — related files pulled in by dependency graph
  7. Offer analysis. Based on the diff, offer to review the changes, suggest improvements, or help write a PR description.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A bae3fcc6e1c6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diff is a command published in the GitHub repository Barnett-Studios/cxpak (25 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 304 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.