explain-diff-for-human-review

explain-diff-for-human-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from GitHubxsy/agent-skills. It costs 91 tokens per session (2,038 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for turning code changes into a self-contained HTML report for a person to review. It explains the purpose, behavior, risks, compatibility, and evidence behind a difference in code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review commits, branches, pull or merge requests, staged changes, working-tree changes, or selected files.
Why use it?
Raw code differences can be difficult to understand without their surrounding files and context. The report gathers that context while leaving the final approval decision to the reviewer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review commits, branches, pull or merge requests, staged changes, working-tree changes, or selected files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/githubxsy/agent-skills/explain-diff-for-human-review
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 GitHubxsy/agent-skills --skill explain-diff-for-human-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GitHubxsy/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,038 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00091 $0.02038
Opus 5.5 $0.00036 $0.00815
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00408
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00204

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 98b8cc7f0446, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-diff-for-human-review 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.

skills/explain-diff-for-human-review/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

让代码差异适合人类检视

把原始 diff 转化为 reviewer 能快速理解、逐层核验并作出决定的材料。报告不是 diff 的自然语言复述,也不替人自动批准代码。

目标

报告应同时满足两种阅读深度:

  • reviewer 在第一屏内理解修改目的、可观察行为变化、最高风险、待确认决定和验证状态;
  • reviewer 可以沿证据链接继续检查相关文件、符号、调用方、测试和原始 diff。

报告深度应与改动风险和复杂度相称。小改动不要强行生成完整架构分析;大改动不要用一句摘要掩盖跨模块影响。

确定范围与证据

  1. 准确解析用户指定的目标:单个提交、提交范围、分支比较、PR/MR、暂存区、工作区或指定文件。
  2. 如果目标不明确,使用对话中最近讨论的一组改动,并在报告中标明该假设。
  3. 检查 diff、修改前的代码、相关调用方、测试、配置和文档。按需查看提交历史,理解难以从代码本身确认的原因。
  4. 区分代码中可以确认的事实、提交或需求中声明的意图,以及检视者作出的推断。明确标注不确定结论。
  5. 除非用户要求修复,否则只检视,不修改产品代码,也不改写 PR。

优先使用仓库原生命令,例如:

git show --stat --oneline <commit>
git diff <base>...<head>
git show <commit> -- <path>
rg "<symbol>" <relevant-paths>

先建立变更地图

在设计报告前,先回答五个问题:

  1. 为什么要改?
  2. 用户、调用方或运维会观察到什么不同?
  3. 哪条运行时路径、数据流或职责边界发生了变化?
  4. 最大风险和真正需要人决定的取舍是什么?
  5. 现有验证证明了什么,还没有证明什么?

据此给出建议的 Review 顺序。按行为和因果链组织,不要按文件名逐个复述。

选择最小有效视图

视觉表达用于降低理解成本,不用于装饰。只保留回答当前 Review 问题所需的调用、文件、状态和边界。通常使用一到三个视图,不需要覆盖所有形式。

  • 局部逻辑或算法:使用短小伪代码。
  • 运行时调用关系:使用调用树。
  • UI 结构与状态归属:使用组件树,并标出关键文件或模块。
  • 文件职责或大范围重构:使用浅层文件树,每个目录只写一句职责。
  • 组件交互、控制流或数据流:使用紧凑流程图;HTML 中优先使用带标签的 CSS 图示或内联 SVG。
  • 已有形状中的局部变化:优先使用 diff 形式,在调用树、文件树、组件树或伪代码上直接标出增删。
  • 大部分内容都是新的,或省略上下文会隐藏归属和顺序:展示一个完整但最短的目标结构。

每个视图紧邻它所解释的简短文字,并注明它是代码事实、根据代码简化的模型,还是建议方案。不要把概念图伪装成真实调用链。

生成自包含报告

除非用户指定其他位置,否则将 UTF-8 HTML5 文件写入本 Skill 目录下的 reports/explain-diff-<target>.html。运行时确定当前 Skill 所在目录;如果 reports 不存在则创建。不要假设固定安装路径。

报告必须可以直接打开:

  • 内嵌全部 CSS,不使用远程字体、脚本、样式表、图片或分析服务;
  • 使用语义化 HTML、响应式布局、清晰的键盘焦点和足够的文字对比度;
  • 对代码、路径、提交信息和用户文本进行 HTML 转义;
  • 使用 <details> 折叠长代码、原始 diff、验证命令和次要证据;
  • 提供打印样式,确保导出 PDF 后仍然可读。

报告结构

只保留适用于本次改动的章节,不要为了模板完整而制造空内容。

第一屏:Review 摘要

显示仓库、检视范围、基准版本、改动规模,以及:

  • 一句话说明为什么改、改了什么;
  • 最小的“修改前 → 修改后”行为视图;
  • 最高优先级风险;
  • reviewer 必须确认的决定;
  • 已执行验证的真实状态;
  • 建议从哪里开始 Review。

风险等级使用:严重、高、中、低、提示。总体结论仅限:可以合入、可以合入但需要后续处理、需要修改。结论必须由证据支持,并明确最终决定属于人类 reviewer。

改动导览

按行为或职责组织改动。每组说明修改目的、关键实现选择、涉及的文件和符号、输入输出、状态、失败行为及兼容性影响。展示最小有效视图,原始细节放入折叠区域。

检视发现

将可执行发现按严重程度排序。每项包括:

  • 严重程度和简短标题;
  • 文件、符号和代码行证据;
  • 可能的失败场景或需要确认的问题;
  • 建议的处理决定或后续工作。

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 1mo ago Changed · +14 lines · -2 tokens per session 98b8cc7f0446
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A a5398e78c636

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-diff-for-human-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository GitHubxsy/agent-skills (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 2,038 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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