diffmode_free CLAUDE.md

Instructions for Diffmode Growth Tactics, a prompt-based system that turns a founder's intake into a Markdown report of growth ideas. A monorepo is a repository containing multiple related projects; this version is a standalone extract from one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to run or change the free idea-generation pipeline, understand its files and outputs, and keep proprietary databases, prioritization, and implementation stages out of the repository.
Why use it?
They clarify the project's boundary and protect private data and later paid stages from being included in the free package.

Instructions file

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 instructions/acogood/diffmode_free/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/acogood/diffmode_free
Per session 2,528 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,528 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.02528 $0.02528
Opus 5 $0.01264 $0.01264
Sonnet 5 $0.00506 $0.00506
Haiku 4.5 $0.00253 $0.00253

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1d10ea1e6023, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

diffmode_free CLAUDE.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

`~/.claude/settings.json` → `extraKnownMarketplaces.diffmode-free.source` points at. A
CLAUDE.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for AI agents working in the Diffmode Growth Tactics standalone repo.

What this repo is

The free Diffmode growth-ideation pipeline, packaged as a portable Claude Code plugin (+ a Codex scaffold). It takes a founder from a 2-minute intake to a synthesis.md of 7-9 novel demand-gen tactic IDEAS and stops at synthesis. It is an extract of the private ai-cmo monorepo's pipeline-skills/ — re-pointed so it runs standalone, leaking none of the paid product.

This is a prompt-based system, not traditional software: no build, no runtime. The "code" is Markdown (SKILL.md bodies, agent defs, orchestrator commands) executed by a coding-agent runtime. Outputs are Markdown/JSON files written to a per-run workspace.

Buyer-facing essence / moat framing lives in README.md and plugin/README.md.

The moat (do not erode it)

The synthesis method is what this repo gives away. Paid + proprietary (never ship, never reference content of): the 576-vector growth database (tactics_DB/ in the private repo), its intelligence layer + saturation/anti-vector tracking, and the downstream prioritization + implementation stages. The free pipeline runs the same method on a deliberately weaker per-run LIGHT DB mined fresh from public case studies, and stops.

Clean-room rule (moat-critical): growth-factors-mining and the whole synthesis chain MUST NOT read anything under tactics_DB/. Mentions of tactics_DB/ in this repo are only prohibitions / moat framing — never actual DB content, vector counts (no 542/8,238), or prompts/ source files. Keep it that way.

Architecture — single source of truth + what ships

  • One repo, one physical copy of the skills. The 13 skills live once in plugin/skills/. Edit them there. codex/.agents/skills/* are relative symlinks (../../../plugin/skills/<name>) — Codex reads the same files; do NOT create a second copy.
  • Only plugin/ ships to Claude users. marketplace.json (repo root) declares source: ./plugin, so Claude copies just that dir to its cache. docs/, codex/, and the root README.md do not ship — put internal notes there, not in plugin/.
  • Codex reads a checked-out repo (not a copy), so the symlinks resolve. The Codex side is a second, working orchestratorcodex/orchestrate.py drives the same DAG, codex/codex_dispatch.py dispatches workers, and codex/checks.py holds the deterministic stage checks. checks.py is the more precise of the two implementations (per-stage completeness anchors with rationale, substring match semantics, the 15-40 gate vs 20-40 acceptance split): when a structural check needs fixing, port from it rather than reinventing the check in prose in start.md — and change both in the same commit. See codex/CODEX.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

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 · 151 lines · 2,528 tokens per session scan B 1d10ea1e6023

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diffmode_free CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository acogood/diffmode_free (160 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 2,528 tokens to every session, about $0.0126 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.