text-comparator

text-comparator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from EE-WILL-I/simple-data-comparator-mcp. It costs 44 tokens per session (565 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A checker that compares two plain-text files line by line, including spaces and line endings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Validating logs, command-line output, and fixed-format text reports against expected text.
Why use it?
It confirms exact output and flags a mismatch when even whitespace or a trailing newline differs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Validating logs, command-line output, and fixed-format text reports against expected text.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ee-will-i/simple-data-comparator-mcp/text-comparator
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 EE-WILL-I/simple-data-comparator-mcp --skill text-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 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 565 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 $0.00044 $0.00565
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00282
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 6d ago against content hash d2f14e1c709c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text-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 6d 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/text-comparator/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Text comparator

Compare actual text against an expected template using the validate-text MCP tool (simple-data-comparator-mcp server). Comparison is exact, line-by-line.

Workflow

  1. Discover the tool — call GetMcpTools for the comparator MCP server, then invoke validate-text.
  2. Normalize line endings if sources mix \n and \r\n (convert to one style on both sides).
  3. Call the tool with actual and template strings.
  4. Check isError:
    • false → texts match
    • true → texts differ (MCP does not return line-level diff details)

Parameters

Parameter Required Purpose
actual yes Text to validate
template yes Expected text template

Interpreting results

Pass: Validation passed.

Fail: Validation failed: text does not match template.

No diff lines are returned via MCP. If the user needs to know what differed:

  • Compare both strings side by side locally
  • Or use a diff tool / diffLines in code

Comparison rules (built into comparator)

  • Line-based splitting on newlines
  • Whitespace within lines is significant (leading/trailing spaces matter)
  • Trailing newline differences count ("a\n""a")

Example call

{
  "actual": "line1\nline2\nline3",
  "template": "line1\nline2\nline3"
}

When to use vs other tools

Content type Use instead
JSON validate-json
XML validate-xml
CSV / tables validate-csv
Excel validate-xlsx
Plain text / logs validate-text

Rules

  • Do not use validate-text for JSON, XML, or CSV — format-specific tools give actionable diff output.
  • Normalize \r\n\n before comparing when data comes from Windows and Unix sources.
  • For structured pass/fail with diff details, pick the matching format comparator.

Full reference

See references/text-comparator.md for extended examples.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 6d ago First seen · 70 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A d2f14e1c709c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text-comparator is a skill published in the GitHub repository EE-WILL-I/simple-data-comparator-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 565 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.

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