aosp-version-diff

aosp-version-diff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aospbooks/aosp-internal-book. It costs 173 tokens per session (1,965 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for comparing two versions of AOSP, the open-source Android codebase, and writing a report about the important platform changes between them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare Android releases, diff repository manifests or branches, identify significant changes, and add important modules missing from an existing report.
Why use it?
It separates mechanical source differences from changes that matter to Android developers, while checking claims against the actual code.

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/aospbooks/aosp-internal-book/aosp-version-diff
Any agent
npx skills add aospbooks/aosp-internal-book --skill aosp-version-diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aospbooks/aosp-internal-book

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 173 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,965 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 $0.00173 $0.01965
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.00983
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00393
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00197

Measured 5d ago against content hash e51f3d51b05f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aosp-version-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 5d 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.

.claude/skills/aosp-version-diff/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AOSP version diff → changes report

This skill captures a proven, two-phase workflow for answering "what changed between two AOSP releases, and which of it matters?" It leans on an existing tool (tools/manifest_snapshot.py) for the mechanical diff, and on a small agent team for the judgement-heavy parts: deciding what's significant, verifying claims against real source, and finding modules a first draft missed.

The guiding principle throughout is accuracy over coverage: a smaller report whose every claim is checked against the actual Android source beats a broad one that paraphrases commit subjects. Every architectural claim cites a real path you opened.

When to use which phase

  • Phase 1 — Compare (references/tooling.md): you have (or can produce) the two releases and want the raw per-repository changeset, then a curated report.
  • Phase 2 — Gap-append (references/gap-analysis.md): a report already exists and you want to find and add the important modules it missed — both newly-added projects and new code modules introduced inside moved repos.

Phase 2 is the "backend" that keeps a report honest: a single drafting pass almost always misses modules, because the changeset is huge (hundreds of moved repos, dozens of added projects) and a drafter naturally anchors on the headline features. Phase 2 systematically diffs "what the changeset added" against "what the report mentions" and closes the difference.

Prerequisites

  • The repo's tools/manifest_snapshot.py (subcommands snap, history, compare, compare-history). Read references/tooling.md for exact commands, flags, and the gotchas that bite (ref-name filenames, LFS, non-UTF-8 commit subjects, the snapshot-vs-history coherence trap).
  • A local AOSP checkout (e.g. $ANDROID_BUILD_TOP) synced to whichever release you're analyzing. The tools are read-only against it; never write into the AOSP tree.
  • For the source-verification and gap phases: the ability to spawn subagents (cap at 10 concurrent). Without subagents, the same steps run inline, slower.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 5d ago First seen · 145 lines · 173 tokens per session scan A e51f3d51b05f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aosp-version-diff is a skill published in the GitHub repository aospbooks/aosp-internal-book (130 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 173 tokens to every session and 1,965 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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