explain-change

explain-change is a skill for Claude Code from delimit-ai/delimit-mcp-server. It costs 21 tokens per session (91 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for explaining how an API change affects existing users and code. It can produce either reviewer notes or migration notes from an old and a new specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare draft pull-request comments about an API change or notes describing how users should migrate between API versions.
Why use it?
API changes can break clients or require rollout steps that are easy to miss in a code review. This gives reviewers and developers a structured explanation of those effects.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the delimit-governance plugin — 3 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare draft pull-request comments about an API change or notes describing how users should migrate between API versions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/delimit-ai/delimit-mcp-server/explain-change
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 delimit-ai/delimit-mcp-server --skill explain-change
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/delimit-ai/delimit-mcp-server

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install delimit-governance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 91 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 $0.00021 $0.00091
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00036
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00009

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4b2b2651a9c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-change 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 9d 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-plugin-governance/skills/explain-change/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

Call delimit_explain with local old_spec and new_spec paths. Use template: "pr_comment" for reviewer notes or template: "migration" for migration notes. Pass version and API name context only when known. Present the rendered explanation as a draft and report tool errors directly.

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. 9d ago First seen · 7 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 4b2b2651a9c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-change is a skill published in the GitHub repository delimit-ai/delimit-mcp-server (24 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 91 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-10-08.

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