diff

A branch comparison command that examines changes made after a branch split from `main`, using the shared starting point as the comparison baseline.

In plain words
What is it for?
Viewing changed-file statistics, full diffs, changed filenames, commits, and file overlap with another branch.
Why use it?
It avoids mixing your branch's work with newer changes that were added to `main`. It can also check whether branches changed the same files.

Command for Claude Code

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/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap/diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 292 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 $0.00015 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured yesterday against content hash 2cc9fd953c48, 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/commands/diff.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Analyze branch diff: $ARGUMENTS

Pre-loaded context

Branch: !git branch --show-current Merge base: !git merge-base main HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "N/A"

Instructions

⚠️ CRITICAL: Always use merge-base, never bare git diff main

# CORRECT — only shows YOUR changes
git diff $(git merge-base main HEAD)..HEAD

# WRONG — includes main's forward progress as noise
git diff main

Determine action from arguments:

Argument Action
stat or (empty) git --no-pager diff $(git merge-base main HEAD)..HEAD --stat
full git --no-pager diff $(git merge-base main HEAD)..HEAD
files git --no-pager diff $(git merge-base main HEAD)..HEAD --name-only
commits git --no-pager log $(git merge-base main HEAD)..HEAD --oneline
overlap <branch> Cross-branch file overlap check
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. yesterday First seen · 37 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 2cc9fd953c48

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diff is a command published in the GitHub repository brain-bootstrap/claude-code-brain-bootstrap (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 292 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.