explain

A command that explains the minos plugin and the rules currently configured for the project. Minos checks shell commands and file changes against rules that can warn or block.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect current global and project rules, see which rules are disabled, and learn how to change them.
Why use it?
It shows what protections are active and helps explain why an action may be stopped before it happens.

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/flaviozanoni/minos/explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlavioZanoni/minos
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 316 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 $0.00012 $0.00316
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash 34411a81c4dd, 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 2d 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.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Give the user a short, beginner-friendly explanation of minos. To ground it in reality, first read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/README.md, then read the user's config files if they exist: ~/.config/minos/rules.jsonc (global) and .minos/rules.jsonc (current project).

Cover, in this order:

  1. What it is (2-3 sentences): minos hooks into every shell command and file edit/write this agent makes and checks them against configured rules - blocking or warning before bad actions land, no matter how long the session gets.
  2. What's active here: list the currently effective rules for this project in a compact table (rule id, what it catches, warn/block, global or project). Note any global rules the project disables. If no config exists yet, say so and show one minimal example rule.
  3. How to configure: /minos:configure <plain-language request> has the agent write and verify a rule for you; /global-config and /project-config open a browser UI (rule editor, test sandbox to try commands/edits against the rules, and the judge-model setting for AI-judgment rules). Power users can edit the JSONC files directly - project rules override global ones by id, and "disable": [...] turns global rules off per-project.

Keep it under ~30 lines, no raw JSON dumps unless the user asks.

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. 2d ago First seen · 14 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 34411a81c4dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain is a command published in the GitHub repository FlavioZanoni/minos (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 316 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 2026-08-31.