diff-adopt

diff-adopt is a skill for Claude Code from davekilleen/Dex. It costs 67 tokens per session (3,022 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow-adoption guide for DexDiff, a format for describing how work is done in Dex. It reads a workflow description and adapts it to your role and personal vault.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to adopt one shared workflow from a document and configure it for your own use.
Why use it?
It removes the need to translate someone else's workflow into a form Dex can use. The guide walks you through setting up that workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to adopt one shared workflow from a document and configure it for your own use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davekilleen/dex/diff-adopt
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add davekilleen/Dex --skill diff-adopt
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davekilleen/Dex

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,022 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 $0.00067 $0.03022
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.01209
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00604
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00302

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7caeb1a0c29b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diff-adopt 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 1mo 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/diff-adopt/SKILL.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What This Command Does

In plain English: Someone figured out a great way to use Dex for a specific job — like prepping for meetings, reviewing deals, or building performance evidence. This command reads their methodology and walks you through setting up a similar workflow in your vault. It adapts to your role, your tools, and your folder structure. Nothing is copied from their system — your Dex generates everything fresh, tailored to you.

When to use it:

  • Dex suggested a workflow you might like
  • You found a workflow on heydex.ai/diff
  • Someone shared a methodology URL or file path with you

How to run it:

/diff-adopt @davekilleen/meeting-intelligence
/diff-adopt https://heydex.ai/diff/davekilleen/meeting-intelligence
/diff-adopt 04-Projects/DexDiff/beta/diffs/meeting-prep.yaml

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS - A reference to one methodology document:

  • A hosted reference @<handle>/<diff-id> - fetch the raw methodology from the API host: GET https://api.heydex.ai/api/diff?author=<handle>&id=<diff-id>
  • A page URL like https://heydex.ai/diff/<handle>/<diff-id> - parse out the handle and diff id, then make the same API call. Never WebFetch the page itself: heydex.ai pages are a React app shell and contain no methodology text. The API lives on api.heydex.ai; the website host has no /api/* routes.
  • A local path from the DexDiff draft area, usually under DEXDIFF_DIFFS_DIR (default 04-Projects/DexDiff/beta/diffs/meeting-prep.yaml) (read directly)

The argument is always an explicit location — never a bare name.

Fetch failures must stop the flow with a plain explanation, never silently:

  • HTTP 404 - "That workflow was not found. Check the handle and workflow id - the author may have unpublished it."
  • Network failure - "Could not reach api.heydex.ai - check your connection and try again. Nothing was changed."
  • The response should be a full methodology document carrying dexdiff_schema: "2.0". If it is a short one-line summary instead, say so plainly: "This workflow was published in an old thin format that cannot be regenerated faithfully - ask the author to re-publish it." Do not invent the missing methodology.

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 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. 1mo ago First seen · 352 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 7caeb1a0c29b

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diff-adopt is a skill published in the GitHub repository davekilleen/Dex (508 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 3,022 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.