explain-error

explain-error is a command for Claude Code from Goldziher/ai-rulez. It costs 15 tokens per session (112 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An error-explanation command that reads the last 200 lines of a log file, finds the first error marker, and suggests a likely cause and one next step.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a log contains ERROR or Traceback and you need an initial diagnosis and follow-up action.
Why use it?
It turns a recent log failure into a short explanation without requiring you to search the log manually.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when a log contains ERROR or Traceback and you need an initial diagnosis and follow-up action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/goldziher/ai-rulez/explain-error
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Goldziher/ai-rulez

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 112 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00015 $0.00112
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00045
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00011

Measured today against content hash c23f6469d28d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-error 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 today.

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.

bench/judge/corpus/units/clean-13/.claude/commands/explain-error.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Explain error

  1. Read the last 200 lines of $ARGUMENTS.
  2. Find the first line containing ERROR or Traceback.
  3. Explain the error in two sentences and name the most likely cause.
  4. Propose one next step the user can run.

Done when the explanation and the next step are written. If the file has no error line, say so and stop.

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. today First seen · 14 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A c23f6469d28d

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explain-error is a command published in the GitHub repository Goldziher/ai-rulez (163 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 112 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-17.