csv-comparator

csv-comparator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EE-WILL-I/simple-data-comparator-mcp. It costs 48 tokens per session (750 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker that compares an exported CSV file—a plain-text table—with an expected CSV template.

In plain words
What is it for?
Validating CSV exports, tabular reports, database dumps, and ETL output, with options to choose columns, row keys, order, and delimiters.
Why use it?
It helps find missing, extra, reordered, or changed rows and columns without writing a comparison script.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/ee-will-i/simple-data-comparator-mcp/csv-comparator
Any agent
npx skills add EE-WILL-I/simple-data-comparator-mcp --skill csv-comparator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EE-WILL-I/simple-data-comparator-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 750 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 5.1 $0.00048 $0.00750
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00075

Measured 5d ago against content hash a1e7ac2eea38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csv-comparator 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.

skills/csv-comparator/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CSV Comparator

Compare actual CSV against an expected template using the validate-csv MCP tool (simple-data-comparator-mcp server).

Workflow

  1. Discover the tool — call GetMcpTools for the comparator MCP server, then invoke validate-csv.
  2. Prepare strings — both sides must include a header row plus data rows as a single CSV string.
  3. Choose options as needed (column filters, row order, row keys, delimiters).
  4. Call the tool and check isError.
  5. Explain failures by row index and column name from difference lines.

Parameters

Parameter Default Purpose
actual required CSV string to validate
template required Expected CSV template string
includeColumns Only compare these header names
excludeColumns Skip these header names
ignoreRowOrder false Sort data rows before comparing
rowKey Header name(s) for row alignment (string or array)
delimiter auto Delimiter for both sides
expectedDelimiter auto Delimiter for template only
actualDelimiter auto Delimiter for actual only

Delimiter auto-detects ,, ;, \t, | when not set. Each side may use a different delimiter.

Interpreting results

Pass: Validation passed.

Fail: [mismatch], [extra_row], [missing_row], [extra_column], [missing_column], [column_filter], [parse_error]

Header matching is case-sensitive (BOM and surrounding whitespace tolerated).

Example calls

Basic:

{
  "actual": "name,age,city\nAlice,30,NYC",
  "template": "name,age,city\nAlice,30,NYC"
}

Row key alignment:

{
  "actual": "id,name\n1,Alice\n3,Charlie\n2,Bob",
  "template": "id,name\n1,Alice\n2,Bob",
  "rowKey": "id"
}

Different delimiters per side:

{
  "actual": "name;age\nJohn;30",
  "template": "name,age\nJohn,30",
  "expectedDelimiter": ",",
  "actualDelimiter": ";"
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 90 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A a1e7ac2eea38

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csv-comparator is a skill published in the GitHub repository EE-WILL-I/simple-data-comparator-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 750 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.