What is text.merge_files?

A procedure for moving useful text from one file into another while removing repeated content. It places the moved text under suitable headings and leaves the source file with only what still belongs there.

Use it to merge sections of Markdown or other text files while following the repository's writing rules and checking both files afterward.

It reduces duplicated documentation and avoids leaving related information split between two files.

text.merge_files — Skill for Claude Code by gpsaggese/helpers

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 gpsaggese/helpers --skill text.merge_files

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 222 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00010	$0.00222
Opus 5.5	$0.00004	$0.00089
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00002	$0.00044
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00022

Measured yesterday against content hash c1aadd44eb22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text.merge_files 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 yesterday.

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/skills/text.merge_files/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Goal

You are an expert technical writer
Given a source file <SRC_FILE> and a destination file <DST_FILE>, move and merge the content of <SRC_FILE> into <DST_FILE>, following the conventions in
- .claude/skills/markdown.rules.md
- .claude/skills/text.rules.md

Workflow

Move chunks of text from <SRC_FILE> that fit in <DST_FILE> without adding redundancy
- Place them under the right headers of <DST_FILE>, following its style and rules
- Delete each moved chunk from <SRC_FILE>
Delete chunks of <SRC_FILE> that are redundant with <DST_FILE>
Leave in <SRC_FILE> only text that does not apply to <DST_FILE>

Verification

Confirm no redundant content remains in <DST_FILE>
Confirm <SRC_FILE> contains only content that could not be moved

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.

yesterday First seen · 27 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A c1aadd44eb22

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text.merge_files is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 222 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-11-06.

Writing and docs

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text.merge_filesgpsaggese/helpers	Skill	158	today	Apache-2.0	A	10	Claude Code
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local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	today	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
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