Agent skill

Diffs

by ItsWendell in ItsWendell/palot

A skill your agent uses when changing Palot code, file, or diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs, including the Changes tab, file views, CodeView, parsing, selection, annotations, workers, or Shiki…

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Diffs

skills CLI
$ npx skills add ItsWendell/palot --skill diffs -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install ItsWendell/palot diffs --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ItsWendell/palot.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/diffs .claude/skills/diffs && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
diffs
GitHub stars
191
Token cost
~841 tokens
SKILL.md length
204 words
Files
20 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
9
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when changing Palot code, file, or diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs, including the Changes tab, file views, CodeView, parsing, selection, annotations, workers, or Shiki…

  • Changing Palot code
  • SKILL.md covers Install, Select an API reference and Select a recipe
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs

What it does

Diffs is an agent skill from ItsWendell/palot. Use when changing Palot code, file, or diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs, including the Changes tab, file views, CodeView, parsing, selection, annotations, workers, or Shiki themes and languages. Do not use for ordinary code review or Git conflict resolution.

Its SKILL.md is about 840 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 20 other files, including reference files (for example `LICENSE.md`, `NOTICE.md` and `references/api-core.md`).

It sits in Development. It works with Git and React. The repository describes itself as: Just another desktop client for OpenCode 2. Manage projects, sessions, parallel agents, requests, and changes on Linux and macOS. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Changing Palot code
  • Diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs
  • Including the Changes tab
  • Shiki themes and languages

Example prompts

  • “/diffs”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5b71bf9. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Diffs loads about 841 tokens when it runs, and up to ~25k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 67 tokens; SKILL.md has 204 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~67
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~841
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~25k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from ItsWendell/palot at commit 5b71bf9, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© ItsWendell). 204 words, ~841 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/diffs/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 19 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
diffs
description
Use when changing Palot code, file, or diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs, including the Changes tab, file views, CodeView, parsing, selection, annotations, workers, or Shiki themes and languages. Do not use for ordinary code review or Git conflict resolution.

@pierre/diffs

Modified by Palot contributors for Palot-specific scope and Vite+ installation guidance. See NOTICE.md for the pinned upstream source and LICENSE.md for the Apache-2.0 license.

Use @pierre/diffs to render syntax-highlighted files and diffs. Use its optional editor, SSR, and worker entries for those capabilities.

Install

bash
vp add @pierre/diffs

Run the install command from apps/desktop. Install react and react-dom when the app uses the React entry.

Select an API reference

SurfaceReference
Root components, parsing, and file extension APIsCore API
Languages, themes, highlighter state, and streamsHighlighting API
Renderers, managers, DOM helpers, comparisons, and constantsLow-level rendering API
Shared data, option, render, selection, and editor typesShared types
@pierre/diffs/reactReact API
@pierre/diffs/editEditor API
@pierre/diffs/ssrSSR API
@pierre/diffs/worker and worker scriptsWorker API

Select a recipe

TaskRecipe
Render a file or diff in ReactRender with React
Render a file or diff without ReactRender with vanilla JavaScript
Build a virtualized review surfaceUse CodeView
Edit a React surface or CodeViewEdit with React
Edit a vanilla surface or CodeViewEdit with vanilla JavaScript
Preload markup on the serverUse SSR
Highlight through a worker poolUse workers
Add line annotations and selectionAdd annotations and selection
Register a Shiki language or themeRegister custom highlighting

© ItsWendell, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 19 other files (references) in .agents/skills/diffs of ItsWendell/palot.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE.md
  • NOTICE.md
  • references/api-core.md
  • references/api-editor.md
  • references/api-highlighting.md
  • references/api-react.md
  • references/api-rendering.md
  • references/api-ssr.md
  • references/api-types.md
  • references/api-worker.md
  • references/recipe-annotations.md
  • references/recipe-code-view.md
  • references/recipe-custom-highlighting.md
  • references/recipe-edit-react.md
  • references/recipe-edit-vanilla.md
  • references/recipe-react.md
  • references/recipe-ssr.md
  • references/recipe-vanilla.md
  • references/recipe-workers.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5b71bf9

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Questions about Diffs

What does Diffs do?

A skill your agent uses when changing Palot code, file, or diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs, including the Changes tab, file views, CodeView, parsing, selection, annotations, workers, or Shiki…. Diffs is an agent skill from ItsWendell/palot. Use when changing Palot code, file, or diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs, including the Changes tab, file views, CodeView, parsing, selection, annotations, workers, or Shiki themes and languages.

When should I use Diffs?

Diffs fits situations like: changing Palot code; diff rendering built on @pierre/diffs; including the Changes tab; shiki themes and languages.

How do I install Diffs in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add ItsWendell/palot --skill diffs -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/diffs in ItsWendell/palot) into .claude/skills/diffs in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Diffs in Codex?

Run `npx skills add ItsWendell/palot --skill diffs -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/diffs in ItsWendell/palot) into .agents/skills/diffs in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Diffs in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add ItsWendell/palot --skill diffs -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/diffs, .gemini/skills/diffs, .github/skills/diffs and .opencode/skills/diffs in your project.

What does Diffs need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Diffs is instructions for the agent only.

Does Diffs access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Diffs safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Diffs use?

Diffs is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Diffs use?

About 841 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 24k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Diffs?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Diffs: Openseo Release Notes (VladSez/easy-invoice-pdf, 1.1k stars), Tk Impact Analysis (tonkeeper/tonkeeper-web, 444 stars), Gh Release Notes (react-cosmos/react-cosmos, 8.7k stars) and Worktrees (GetStream/stream-chat-react, 845 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Diffs?

ItsWendell (a GitHub user) maintains it in ItsWendell/palot, which has 191 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: ItsWendell/palot on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.