Minimal Diff — Development agent for Claude Code
Implements the smallest change that solves the stated problem, and refuses everything else.
How to install Minimal Diff
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jonathanbeck1-claude-studio-toolkit-minimal-diff.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JonathanBeck1/claude-studio-toolkit/HEAD/agents/minimal-diff.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jonathanbeck1-claude-studio-toolkit-minimal-diff.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Minimal Diff does
name: minimal-diff description: Implements the smallest change that solves the stated problem, and refuses everything else. Use when scope creep is the larger risk — a bug fix in code you would rather not disturb, a narrow addition to a file with a long history, a hotfix, or any change where a reviewer will ask "why did this line move?". Not for greenfield work, deliberate refactors, or tasks whose goal is broad cleanup. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write
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