Pi-skills vscode

VS Code integration for viewing diffs and comparing files. Use when showing file differences to the user.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/vscode" ~/.claude/skills/badlogic-pi-skills-vscode && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: vscode/SKILL.md

source content

VS Code CLI Tools

Tools for integrating with VS Code, primarily for viewing diffs.

Requirements

VS Code must be installed with the

code

CLI available in PATH.

Opening a Diff

Compare two files side by side in VS Code:

code -d <file1> <file2>

Git Diffs in VS Code

Simple Approach (no config needed)

Extract the old version to a temp file, then diff:

# Compare with previous commit
git show HEAD~1:path/to/file > /tmp/old && code -d /tmp/old path/to/file

# Compare with specific commit
git show abc123:path/to/file > /tmp/old && code -d /tmp/old path/to/file

# Compare staged version with working tree
git show :path/to/file > /tmp/staged && code -d /tmp/staged path/to/file

Gotchas

File must exist and have changes between the compared revisions
Use
```
git log --oneline -5 -- path/to/file
```
to verify file has history before diffing

When to Use

Showing the user what changed in a file
Comparing two versions of code
Reviewing git changes visually