explain

A command that explains code, either from the provided text or a specified location. It describes the code’s purpose, structure, logic, edge cases, performance, security, dependencies, and examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn what code does, understand its functions and classes, inspect design choices, and identify security or performance considerations.
Why use it?
It helps turn unfamiliar code into a readable overview and step-by-step explanation. This reduces the time needed to understand how parts of a program fit together.

Command for Claude 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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/bach-ai-tools/pdf-reader-mcp/explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BACH-AI-Tools/pdf-reader-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 4 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 157 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00004 $0.00157
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00078
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00031
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00016

Measured yesterday against content hash d8ac3d0c5b63, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/commands/explain.md · 39 lines

What it actually says

Explain Code

Context

$ARGUMENTS

Your Task

Provide a comprehensive explanation of the code above (or at the specified location) that includes:

  1. Overview

    • What does this code do?
    • What problem does it solve?
  2. How It Works

    • Step-by-step breakdown of the logic
    • Key algorithms or patterns used
    • Important design decisions
  3. Components

    • Main functions/classes/modules
    • Their roles and responsibilities
    • How they interact
  4. Important Details

    • Edge cases handled
    • Performance considerations
    • Security implications
    • Dependencies and requirements

Use clear language and provide examples where helpful.

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. yesterday First seen · 39 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A d8ac3d0c5b63

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain is a command published in the GitHub repository BACH-AI-Tools/pdf-reader-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 157 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-01.