policy-diff

policy-diff is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 74 tokens per session (2,864 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool that compares a specific UK regulatory change with an organisation’s policy library. It identifies which policies are affected and describes the gap between the new requirement and the current policy.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract requirements from a UK rule, match them to policies, and produce a requirement-by-requirement gap analysis.
Why use it?
It turns a new rule into a concrete list of policy areas that may need review, rather than leaving the impact unclear.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the regulatory-legal-uk plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract requirements from a UK rule, match them to policies, and produce a requirement-by-requirement gap analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/policy-diff
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 uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill policy-diff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install regulatory-legal-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,864 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 $0.00074 $0.02864
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.01432
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00573
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00286

Measured 9d ago against content hash 49cffc0ce8a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

policy-diff 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.

regulatory-legal-uk/skills/policy-diff/SKILL.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/policy-diff

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/regulatory-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md → policy library index.
  2. Use the workflow below.
  3. Extract requirements from the UK regulatory change. Match to indexed policies.
  4. Output: per-requirement gap analysis, which policy needs updating.

Matter context

Matter context. Check ## Matter workspaces in the practice-level CLAUDE.md. If Enabled is (the default for in-house users), skip the rest of this paragraph — skills use practice-level context and the matter machinery is invisible. If enabled and there is no active matter, ask: "Which matter is this for? Run /regulatory-legal-uk:matter-workspace switch <slug> or say practice-level." Load the active matter's matter.md for matter-specific context and overrides. Write outputs to the matter folder at ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/regulatory-legal-uk/matters/<matter-slug>/. Never read another matter's files unless Cross-matter context is on.


Purpose

A UK rule changed. You have policies. This skill finds which policies the change touches and what the gap is between "what the rule now requires" and "what the policy says."

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/regulatory-legal-uk/CLAUDE.md → policy library index (policies, locations, owners).

Scope integrity

If the user asks you to exclude a policy section, requirement, or category from the diff:

  1. Do it — the user owns the scope.
  2. But flag it, loudly and permanently: "⚠️ SCOPE LIMITATION: Section [X] excluded at user request. This diff does not reflect the full policy. Gaps in the excluded area are NOT identified." Above the header, carried to every downstream artifact.
  3. Hand the flag to gap-surfacer: "This diff was scope-limited. Do not represent it as a complete compliance picture."
  4. Note what the exclusion means in the UK regulatory context: "Excluding vendor management from an FCA SYSC diff means the diff will show 'no policy addresses SYSC third-party outsourcing' — which is worse than showing the gap, given FCA oversight of outsourcing arrangements."

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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 · 224 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 49cffc0ce8a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

policy-diff is a skill published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 2,864 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 2026-09-03.

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