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Compare Files

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compare-files

Compare Files is an Agent Skill for documents published in the CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Compare two files and show differences

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How to use this skill

Bring this guide into your coding agent with a prompt tailored to the tool you use.

  1. Open your project in Codex.
  2. Copy and paste the prompt below.
  3. Review files and risks before approving any action.
Prompt to paste
Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS/blob/HEAD/resources/skills/compare-files/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/compare-files, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

Copying this prompt does not install or run the skill. Review third-party files before use.

Compare Files

Purpose

Compare two files and show differences

Routing

  • Use when: Use when the user asks to compare two files and show differences.
  • Do not use when: Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
  • Outputs: Outcome from Compare Files: task-specific result plus concrete action notes.
  • Success criteria: Returns concrete actions and decisions matching the requested task, with no fabricated tool-side behavior.

Trigger Examples

Positive

  • Use the compare-files skill for this request.
  • Help me with compare files.
  • Use when the user asks to compare two files and show differences.
  • Compare Files: provide an actionable result.

Negative

  • Do not use when the request is asking for planning documents, high-level strategy, or non-executable discussion; use the relevant planning or design workflow instead.
  • Do not use compare-files for unrelated requests.
  • This request is outside compare files scope.
  • This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.

Parameters

NameTypeRequiredDescription
file1stringYesPath to the first file
file2stringYesPath to the second file

Runtime Prompt

  • Current runtime prompt length: 477 characters.
  • Runtime prompt is defined directly in ../compare-files.json.