minos-explain

minos-explain is a command for coding agents from FlavioZanoni/minos. It costs 12 tokens per session (318 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that explains the Minos rule-enforcement plugin and shows which rules are active in the current project. Minos checks shell commands and file changes against configured rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect global and project rule files and learn how to configure Minos with its configuration command or JSONC files.
Why use it?
It makes the session’s safety settings visible, including rules that warn, block, are disabled, or override global settings.

Command

Part of the minos plugin — 8 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

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/minos-explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlavioZanoni/minos

Or install minos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 commands, 2 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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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 318 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 $0.00318
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00159
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured 5d ago against content hash 92e83d7cb8fc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

minos-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 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.

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.

opencode/commands/minos-explain.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Give the user a short, beginner-friendly explanation of Minos, the rule-enforcement plugin active in this session. Ground it in reality: 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 and any rules marked "enabled": false. 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; npx -y github:FlavioZanoni/minos config --project (or --global) opens a browser UI (rule editor, test sandbox, judge-model picker). 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. 5d ago First seen · 14 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 92e83d7cb8fc

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minos-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 318 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.

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