diff_patch

diff_patch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jxoesneon/Ciel. It costs 13 tokens per session (266 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for creating unified diffs, which describe changes between two versions of files, and applying those changes. It can also check for conflicts and perform a three-way merge using two versions and their shared starting point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare files, generate patches, apply changes, detect conflicts before applying them, and merge competing text edits.
Why use it?
It helps make file changes reviewable and prevents patches from being applied when they conflict with existing edits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to compare files, generate patches, apply changes, detect conflicts before applying them, and merge competing text edits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jxoesneon/ciel/diff_patch
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 jxoesneon/Ciel --skill diff_patch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jxoesneon/Ciel

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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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.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 266 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 $0.00013 $0.00266
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00106
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 681420345449, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

diff_patch 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.

ciel.skill/seed_skills/diff_patch/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

diff_patch

Unified diffs + patch application.

Operations

  • diff.create(a_path, b_path) / diff.from_strings(a, b).
  • patch.apply(path, patch, strict=true).
  • patch.conflict(path, patch) — detects without applying.
  • patch.three_way(ours, theirs, base) — textual 3-way merge.

I/O Contract

io_contract:
  input: { op, args }
  output: { result, "conflicts?" }
  idempotent: for_same_inputs
  side_effects: [fs]

Use

self_improvement/ uses this to construct and apply mutation diffs.

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 First seen · 37 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 681420345449

Subscribe to this mod's changes

diff_patch is a skill published in the GitHub repository jxoesneon/Ciel (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 266 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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