variant-table

variant-table is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from forefy/.context. It costs 38 tokens per session (819 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison format for rewriting short pieces of text. It shows three different versions of each line and recommends one.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review existing text, generate distinct rewrites, and choose the best version for each line.
Why use it?
It makes wording choices easier to compare when refining copy such as headlines, calls to action, documentation, or commit messages.

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/forefy/.context/variant-table
Any agent
npx skills add forefy/.context --skill variant-table
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/forefy/.context

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for variant-table

README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 819 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 $0.00038 $0.00819
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00409
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 5d ago against content hash 510747ab3963, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

variant-table 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/generic-utils/variant-table/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Variant Table

Turn a piece of draft copy into a side-by-side comparison table so the user can compare wording options per unit and pick.

When to use

Any time the user is refining wording and would benefit from seeing distinct options laid out rather than a single rewrite. Works for any content type: social posts, headlines, taglines, email lines, bios, CTAs, microcopy, doc sentences, spec bullets, commit messages. Content-agnostic - never assume it is a LinkedIn post.

Output format

A markdown table. One row per logical unit of the source. Columns:

| # | Current | A - | B - | C - | My pick |

  • # - unit index plus a 1-2 word role label in parens, e.g. 1 (hook), 4 (CTA), 2 (bullet). The label names the unit's job, inferred from the content.
  • Current - the user's existing text for that unit, verbatim. If the user gave no existing draft, leave a short placeholder or omit this column.
  • A / B / C - three rewrites. See the distinctness rule below. Rename the angle after the dash per row to whatever actually differs (e.g. A - blunt, B - contrarian, C - technical).
  • My pick - one recommendation for that row, in bold. It may be one of A/B/C, the current text ("keep"), or a fresh hybrid. Add a terse parenthetical reason only when it aids the choice.

The distinctness rule (most important)

The three variations must differ in approach, not just word swaps. Before writing a row, pick three different axes and commit one variation to each. Draw from axes like:

  • tone: blunt / playful / formal / contrarian
  • structure: statement / question / fragment / story-fragment
  • angle: pain-first / benefit-first / curiosity-gap / social-proof / technical-precision
  • length: terse vs flowing

If two variations could be swapped without a reader noticing a shift in strategy, they are too similar - rewrite one. Label each column with the axis it took so the contrast is legible.

How to segment

Split the source into the units the user is actually deciding on:

  • prose → paragraphs (or sentences if they're iterating sentence-level)
  • list → bullets
  • headline + subhead → separate rows
  • table/form → cells or fields

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 5d ago First seen · 60 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 510747ab3963

Subscribe to this mod's changes

variant-table is a skill published in the GitHub repository forefy/.context (141 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 819 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 2026-08-30.

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