cadence-diff-check

cadence-diff-check is a skill for Claude Code from abstractonion/cadence. It costs 27 tokens per session (192 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review of the current code difference, including staged changes and relevant unstaged changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before handoff to inspect quoted lines, check whether runtime evidence exists, and get a clear ship-or-hold verdict.
Why use it?
It catches unrelated edits, incomplete refactors, missing updates, and claims that the code does not support.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the cadence plugin — 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it before handoff to inspect quoted lines, check whether runtime evidence exists, and get a clear ship-or-hold verdict.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abstractonion/cadence/cadence-diff-check
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.

Any agent
npx skills add abstractonion/cadence --skill cadence-diff-check
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abstractonion/cadence

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cadence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 15 commands, 5 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 192 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00192
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00096
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00019

Measured 8d ago against content hash 178866ee41aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cadence-diff-check 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 8d 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.

plugins/cadence/skills/cadence-diff-check/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Diff Check

You are reviewing the current diff this turn — staged changes first, then unstaged if relevant. Read it as a stranger who does not trust the author. Flag scope drift (changes unrelated to the stated intent), incomplete refactors, missing callers, unsupported claims, and anywhere the diff promises more than it delivers. Quote the specific lines or hunks you are citing; vague review notes are not allowed. Flag any ship-ready claim that lacks a matching evidence bundle per verify-with-runtime (tests, runtime output, screenshots, or an explicit blocked_reason). Do not edit files — produce a review only, ending with a clear ship / hold verdict.

Anchored in

  • self-review-before-handoff
  • verify-with-runtime
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. 8d ago First seen · 15 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 178866ee41aa

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cadence-diff-check is a skill published in the GitHub repository abstractonion/cadence (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 192 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 2026-08-31.