explain-repo

explain-repo is a command for Cursor from ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,382 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A command that creates a detailed guide to a software repository, including its purpose, structure, coding patterns, and conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when joining a project, reviewing an existing repository, or documenting how the code is organised.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar codebase.

Command for Cursor

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill/explain-repo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill

Made for: Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for explain-repo

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill/explain-repo.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill/explain-repo)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill/explain-repo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill/explain-repo.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,382 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01382
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00138

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0409ef933d4e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

explain-repo scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- Trace one complete user action or data flow through the system. Pick the most representative example. Show which files are involved at each stage. -->
.cursor/commands/explain-repo.md · 151 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 5d ago First seen · 151 lines · 0 tokens per session scan C 0409ef933d4e

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explain-repo is a command published in the GitHub repository ashutoshbarthwal/software-engineer-cursor-skill (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,382 tokens. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.