Currently the extension exposes two commands for adding cell diffs:
https://github.com/jupyter-ai-contrib/jupyterlab-cell-diff/blob/b814678435ade179e630bfc12c3faa744d721c05/src/plugin.ts#L76
https://github.com/jupyter-ai-contrib/jupyterlab-cell-diff/blob/b814678435ade179e630bfc12c3faa744d721c05/src/plugin.ts#L182
However the nbdime command requires having nbdime installed on the server.
Dropping support for this command would help simplify the extension, which would become pure frontend.