Breaking Change Detector

Breaking Change Detector is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Notysoty/openagentskills. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,720 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A comparison tool that checks two versions of a codebase, API, or interface definition for changes that could break existing users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during upgrades and code reviews to classify breaking changes, explain their impact, and provide migration hints.
Why use it?
It helps catch compatibility problems before releasing a package or changing an API, and explains what affected users may need to update.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for cline. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; built for cline.

Good fit Use it during upgrades and code reviews to classify breaking changes, explain their impact, and provide migration hints.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/notysoty/openagentskills/breaking-change-detector
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 Notysoty/openagentskills --skill breaking-change-detector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Notysoty/openagentskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,720 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 $0.00023 $0.01720
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00860
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00172

Measured 9d ago against content hash d269fb4d0a6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Breaking Change Detector 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 9d 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/breaking-change-detector/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Breaking Change Detector

What this skill does

This skill directs the agent to compare two versions of a codebase, API schema, or interface definition and systematically identify every change that could break existing callers. It classifies each change by severity, explains why it is breaking, and provides a concrete migration hint so consumers know exactly what they need to update.

Use this before publishing a new package version, before deploying an API change that existing clients depend on, or during a code review to catch unintended contract changes.

How to use

Claude Code / Cline

Copy this file to .agents/skills/breaking-change-detector/SKILL.md in your project root.

Then ask:

  • "Use the Breaking Change Detector skill to compare the old and new versions of our API."
  • "I changed src/auth/index.ts. Use the Breaking Change Detector skill to find any breaking changes."

Provide: the old version (paste, file path, or git ref) and the new version.

Cursor

Add the instructions below to your .cursorrules or paste them into the Cursor AI pane. Then share both the old and new code side by side.

Codex

Paste both versions clearly labeled as "OLD VERSION" and "NEW VERSION" and ask Codex to follow the instructions below.

The Prompt / Instructions for the Agent

When asked to detect breaking changes, follow this process:

Step 1 — Establish what constitutes the public contract

Before comparing, identify what is "public" — i.e., what external callers or consumers depend on:

  • For a library: all exported functions, types, interfaces, and constants
  • For a REST API: all endpoints (method + path), request body shapes, response shapes, status codes, and headers
  • For a database schema: table names, column names, data types, nullability, and unique constraints
  • For a TypeScript/JavaScript module: all export statements

Changes to internal/private code are not breaking changes unless they affect something observable from outside.

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 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. 9d ago First seen · 186 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A d269fb4d0a6b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Breaking Change Detector is a skill published in the GitHub repository Notysoty/openagentskills (9 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,720 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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