compare-masters

compare-masters is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tradecatlabs/fatecat. It costs 161 tokens per session (4,907 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of compare-masters, MIT.

A comparison workflow for answering one question through the views of multiple Buddhist masters or traditions. It selects two or three relevant figures based on the user's choices or the topic.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for comparing views on topics such as Zen and Pure Land, Madhyamaka and Yogacara, meditation, Buddhist ethics, emptiness, and stages of practice.
Why use it?
It helps readers see different Buddhist interpretations side by side without treating one tradition as definitively better. The content is based on historical Buddhist writings for study.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the Master-skill-main plugin — 19 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tradecatlabs/fatecat/compare
Any agent
npx skills add tradecatlabs/fatecat --skill compare
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tradecatlabs/fatecat

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install Master-skill-main, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for compare-masters

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tradecatlabs/fatecat/compare.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tradecatlabs/fatecat/compare)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tradecatlabs/fatecat/compare"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tradecatlabs/fatecat/compare.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,907 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00161 $0.04907
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.02454
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00981
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00491

Measured 5d ago against content hash ff91305e1605, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

compare-masters 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to compare-masters — 62 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

tools/reference-repos/github/Master-skill-main/prebuilt/compare/SKILL.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

多祖师对比 (Compare Masters) — 元 Skill

本内容依据历史佛教文献生成,仅供学习参考。对比旨在展现多元视角,不评判优劣。

决策树:选择哪些祖师?

优先级 1 — 用户显式指定

用户指定 2-3 位祖师 → 直接使用。

优先级 2 — 关键词智能匹配

从用户问题提取佛学关键词,与各祖师 meta.jsonsearch_scope.keywords 匹配:

  • 强匹配(关键词直接出现在 keywords 中):权重 3
  • 相关匹配(属于该传承核心领域):权重 2
  • 弱匹配(部分字面重叠):权重 1

取 top 2-3 位,优先选不同宗派以呈现多元视角。

优先级 3 — 主题映射兜底

问题主题 配对祖师 说明
念佛 / 往生 / 净土 master-yinguang + master-ouyi 净土专精 + 跨宗派
参禅 / 话头 / 开悟 master-huineng + master-xuyun 古今禅宗对比
唯识 / 中观 / 空有 master-xuanzang + master-kumarajiva 唯识 vs 中观
判教 / 圆融 / 止观 master-zhiyi + master-fazang 天台 vs 华严
修行次第 / 综合法门 master-ouyi + master-yinguang 综合 vs 专修
戒律 / 行持 / 日常 master-xuyun + master-yinguang + master-ajahn-chah 禅门戒律 vs 净土行持 vs 上座部律仪
般若 / 空性 master-kumarajiva + master-tsongkhapa + master-huineng 早期中观译师 · 应成中观精确分判 · 禅宗直指
中观 / 缘起性空 / 应成 master-kumarajiva + master-tsongkhapa 印度中观东渡 vs 藏地后期精确化
道次第 / 三士道 / lam rim master-atisha + master-tsongkhapa 印藏桥梁源头 vs 格鲁派系统化
心识 / 阿赖耶 / 心所 master-xuanzang + master-buddhaghosa + master-huineng 唯识 vs 上座部阿毗达摩 vs 禅宗直指
戒律 / 持戒 / 律仪 master-xuyun + master-atisha + master-buddhaghosa 汉传禅门律 vs 印藏菩萨律 vs 上座部律藏注释
苦行 / 闭关 / 山中修行 master-xuyun + master-milarepa 汉传禅门头陀 vs 藏传瑜伽士传统
正念 / 观心 / 觉知 master-huineng + master-ajahn-chah + master-mahasi-sayadaw 禅宗自性 vs 南传 sati 朴素 vs 缅甸标记法
禅修方法 / 业处 / 所缘 master-buddhaghosa + master-mahasi-sayadaw + master-ajahn-chah 论藏四十种业处 vs 标记法腹部起伏 vs 朴素观心
七清净 / 十六观智 / 道次第 master-buddhaghosa + master-mahasi-sayadaw 《清净道论》原典 vs 现代缅甸应用
出离心 / 暇满 / 无常 master-yinguang + master-atisha + master-ajahn-chah 净土 · 噶当 · 上座部三大传统出离观对比
菩提心 / 慈悲 master-atisha + master-ouyi 印藏自他相换 vs 跨宗派融通
上师 / 善知识 / 依止 master-xuyun + master-atisha + master-tsongkhapa 汉传善知识 vs 噶当依止论 vs 格鲁视师如佛
论师风格 / 经院严密 master-xuanzang + master-tsongkhapa + master-buddhaghosa 唯识 · 应成中观 · 上座部三大论师传统
三大传统对比(明确要求) master-huineng + master-tsongkhapa + master-buddhaghosa 禅 · 应成中观 · 上座部论藏,三方系统对照
三大传统禅修对比 master-huineng + master-milarepa + master-ajahn-chah 禅 · 大手印 · 森林禅,三大传统禅修法
其他 master-kumarajiva + master-yinguang 中观 + 净土两大传统

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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. 5d ago First seen · 292 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A ff91305e1605

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compare-masters is a skill published in the GitHub repository tradecatlabs/fatecat (203 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 4,907 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to compare-masters, differing in 62 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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