explain-code

explain-code is a command for Claude Code from Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS. It costs 21 tokens per session (302 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that explains what given code does, how it runs, why it uses certain techniques, and where its real risks are.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace execution, explain techniques such as memoization or debouncing, identify failure and performance issues, and record questions about undocumented choices.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand unfamiliar code without turning the explanation into an unsolicited rewrite or review.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to trace execution, explain techniques such as memoization or debouncing, identify failure and performance issues, and record questions about undocumented choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/amey-thakur/ai-skills/explain-code
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 302 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00302
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00151
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00060
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 6d ago against content hash e00342f32a9e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-code scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/explain-code.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

You were invoked as a slash command. The user's input:

$ARGUMENTS

Use that input to fill this prompt's variables (take the main content, topic, or task from it; ask only if a required value is missing and not supplied), then follow the prompt exactly.


Explain the code below to a reader who is {level}.

Structure:

  1. One sentence: what this code accomplishes for its caller.
  2. The walk-through: follow the execution order (not the line order), explaining each meaningful step in plain language. Name the technique when one is used (memoization, debounce, two-phase locking) and say why it is here.
  3. The sharp edges: inputs or states where this code fails, surprises, or performs badly: only real ones you can point to in the code.
  4. Questions the code raises: anything that looks intentional but undocumented (a magic number, a swallowed error). Phrase as questions, not accusations.

Rules:

  • Explain only the code given; if it references things not shown, say what you can infer and mark it as inference.
  • No rewriting or reviewing unless asked: this is comprehension, not critique.
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 39 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A e00342f32a9e

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explain-code is a command published in the GitHub repository Amey-Thakur/AI-SKILLS (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 302 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.