text-diff

A tool for comparing two files or pieces of text and showing how they differ. It can display a standard unified diff, a side-by-side view, or a patch file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare source files or text, review changes in different layouts, and generate a patch describing the differences.
Why use it?
It makes additions, removals, and changed lines easier to inspect than reading both versions separately. A generated patch can be saved or applied elsewhere.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/aidotnet/moyucode/text-diff
Any agent
npx skills add AIDotNet/MoYuCode --skill text-diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AIDotNet/MoYuCode

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 227 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 $0.00022 $0.00227
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00113
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00023

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3c7536b1a498, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/text_diff.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/tools/text-diff/SKILL.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

Text Diff Tool

Description

Compare files and text content with unified diff output, side-by-side view, and patch generation.

Trigger

  • /diff command
  • User needs to compare files
  • User wants to see changes

Usage

# Compare two files
python scripts/text_diff.py file1.txt file2.txt

# Unified diff format
python scripts/text_diff.py old.py new.py --unified

# Side-by-side view
python scripts/text_diff.py file1.txt file2.txt --side-by-side

# Generate patch
python scripts/text_diff.py old.txt new.txt --patch > changes.patch

Tags

diff, compare, patch, text, files

Compatibility

  • Codex: ✅
  • Claude Code: ✅
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 43 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 3c7536b1a498

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text-diff is a skill published in the GitHub repository AIDotNet/MoYuCode (84 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 227 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.

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