clear-explain

clear-explain is a command for coding agents from eugeniughelbur/clearmode. It costs 37 tokens per session (220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that explains one CLEAR-100 writing rule: what it detects, why it exists, how to fix it, and an example before and after. It can also help decide whether a rule should be ignored or changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating a specific checker finding, defending or correcting a flagged sentence, and reviewing the available writing-rule categories.
Why use it?
It gives a concrete reason and correction when a writing check is unclear or seems wrong.

Command

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/eugeniughelbur/clearmode/clear-explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eugeniughelbur/clearmode

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 220 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 $0.00037 $0.00220
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00110
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00044
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00022

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3b2f21228555, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clear-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 3d 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/clear-explain.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

/clear-explain

Explain a rule, or defend it.

Steps

  1. Run python3 scripts/clearcheck.py --explain <RULE_ID>. Never paraphrase a rule from memory.
  2. Give the reason first, then the fix, then the before-and-after.
  3. If the user thinks the rule is wrong on their line, decide honestly:
    • The rule is right: show the fix on their exact sentence.
    • The rule is wrong here: tell them to suppress it inline with clear: ignore <RULE_ID>.
    • The rule is wrong in general: edit rules/clear-100.json, then run python3 scripts/compile_targets.py. The rule pack is the argument, not the chat.
  4. With no rule id, list the axes and the error-severity rules, nothing more.
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. 3d ago First seen · 19 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 3b2f21228555

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clear-explain is a command published in the GitHub repository eugeniughelbur/clearmode (1 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 220 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.