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

| Name | Type | Required | Description | |---|---|---|---| | file1 | string | Yes | Path to the first file | | file2 | string | Yes | Path to the second file |

Runtime Prompt

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