context-compare

context-compare is a skill for Claude Code from ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,654 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison that runs the same analytics question with and without a chosen piece of context, then reports how the answers differ. The context can be a metric definition or other stated meaning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test whether a metric definition or other background information changes an analysis, and to measure the difference between the two runs.
Why use it?
It is easy to assume that added context improves an answer without measuring its effect. This shows whether the context changes consistency, citations, or the result itself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 helpers/stats/reliability_stats.py .knowledge/comparisons/<question-slug>/<ts>-baseline.

Good fit Use it to test whether a metric definition or other background information changes an analysis, and to measure the difference between the two runs.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst/context-compare

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,654 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 $0.00072 $0.01654
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00827
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00331
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00165

Measured 2d ago against content hash 29e0009d58fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-13, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

context-compare 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/context-compare/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill: Context compare (with and without)

Purpose

Measure what a piece of context is doing, instead of asserting it. Run the same question two ways, once without the context (for example, no metric definition) and once with it, and report the delta: did the spread collapse, did the runs start citing the definition, did the verdict go from drifts to stable. The setup whose presence collapses the drift is the context that moves the answer. Convergence is stability, not correctness.

Invocation

/context-compare "<the question>" --with <the definition> [N] Default N = 5. The context under test is a meaning-only definition, usually a metric definition: the user states it in conversation, points at a definition YAML file, or names an entry already in the metric dictionary. The baseline is the analyst with that definition absent from the dictionary.

Example: /context-compare "What's our retention rate?" --with "Retention Rate (30d): share of accounts at least 30 days old that were active in the trailing 30 days"

How to run it

This skill is glue plus bookkeeping, and the whole procedure is manual: you stage the definition into the active dataset's metric dictionary, run the reliability procedure once per arm, compute the delta between the two arms, and restore the dictionary. The run step is the reliability skill (a sibling of this one); the per-arm statistics come from that skill's bundled script. The user never types a command; you do each step. This skill ships no scripts of its own.

Script path. The stats script is bundled with the reliability skill: helpers/stats/reliability_stats.py (the same module the reliability skill uses). If the import fails (some sandboxed environments): read the script file from the reliability skill, write a copy into a scripts/ folder inside the working folder, and run it from there. The script is self-contained. In every case run it from the working-folder root, so its audit-log append lands in .knowledge/reliability/log.jsonl.

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 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 · 116 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 29e0009d58fc

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context-compare is a skill published in the GitHub repository ai-analyst-lab/ai-analyst (298 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,654 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-12.

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