change-walkthrough

change-walkthrough is a skill for Codex from mkslge/piazza-mcp. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,782 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for explaining substantial completed code changes as a guided walkthrough. It connects the changed parts, uses Mermaid diagrams when useful, and directs the reader to review the code in a sensible order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Documenting how an implemented change works, explaining its design decisions, and guiding a technical review.
Why use it?
It makes large features, bug fixes, and refactors easier to understand than reading a diff line by line. It also separates behavior changes from tests and generated files.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Documenting how an implemented change works, explaining its design decisions, and guiding a technical review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mkslge/piazza-mcp/change-walkthrough
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 mkslge/piazza-mcp --skill change-walkthrough
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mkslge/piazza-mcp

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,782 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 $0.00079 $0.01782
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00891
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00178

Measured 10d ago against content hash ed7e5b607461, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

change-walkthrough 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 10d 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/change-walkthrough/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Change Walkthrough

Teach the change as a coherent system, then guide the user through reviewing the actual code in the order that builds understanding fastest. Explain intent, relationships, and design decisions rather than narrating the diff line by line.

Ground the Explanation

Before explaining, inspect the original request, repository instructions, plan or acceptance criteria, and the complete change in scope. Read enough surrounding code to understand existing contracts and call paths.

  • Prefer a user-specified diff or comparison base. Otherwise state exactly which working-tree changes, commits, or files were reviewed.
  • Include relevant untracked files; a diff alone may omit them.
  • Separate behavior-changing code from tests, configuration, generated files, formatting, and incidental edits.
  • Verify claims against the final code. Do not describe an abandoned plan as if it were implemented.
  • Do not modify code while producing the walkthrough unless the user separately asks for changes.

If the scope or baseline remains uncertain, explain the useful verified portion and label the limitation instead of silently guessing.

Build the Mental Model First

Begin with the user's goal and the resulting behavior. In a few sentences, explain:

  1. What was possible before.
  2. What is possible now.
  3. Where the main responsibility lives.
  4. Which important behavior intentionally did not change.

Use a compact before-and-after table when it clarifies a changed contract, responsibility, data shape, or control flow. Avoid listing every file here; the ordered review tour handles implementation detail.

Show the Flow with Mermaid

For every non-trivial walkthrough, include at least one Mermaid diagram that captures the most important verified relationship. Choose the diagram from the system's actual shape:

  • flowchart for control flow, data movement, dependencies, or component boundaries.
  • sequenceDiagram for interactions whose ordering, request/response behavior, or failure propagation matters.
  • stateDiagram-v2 for lifecycles, retries, status changes, or other stateful behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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. 10d ago First seen · 199 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A ed7e5b607461

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change-walkthrough is a skill published in the GitHub repository mkslge/piazza-mcp (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,782 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.