explain-me-a-repo

explain-me-a-repo is a command for Claude Code from hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter. It costs 0 tokens per session (407 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided explanation of a software project hosted on GitHub, a website for sharing and collaborating on code. It describes the project's purpose, structure, key files, and setup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand a GitHub repository, identify its main languages and folders, and find the steps needed to start it.
Why use it?
It saves you from having to inspect an unfamiliar codebase alone. It turns repository details into a plain-language overview.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it to understand a GitHub repository, identify its main languages and folders, and find the steps needed to start it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/explain-me-a-repo
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for explain-me-a-repo

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/explain-me-a-repo.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/explain-me-a-repo)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/explain-me-a-repo"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter/explain-me-a-repo.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 407 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 $0.00000 $0.00407
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00204
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00041

Measured 8d ago against content hash 868cc03731aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-me-a-repo 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 8d 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.

.claude/commands/explain-me-a-repo.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

If a GitHub repo URL was not provided, ask the user for one now.

Then:

  1. Use Brave MCP to navigate to the repo URL — mcp__brave-devtools__browser_navigate
  2. Take a snapshot to read the page — mcp__brave-devtools__browser_snapshot
  3. Navigate to the raw README if visible — look for README.md link and navigate to it
  4. Explore key folders by navigating to subdirectories as needed (src/, app/, main files, config)
  5. Close the browser when done — mcp__brave-devtools__browser_close

Produce the following write-up directly — no preamble:

[Repo Name]

URL: [GitHub URL] Language(s): [Primary languages used]


What it does

One paragraph. Plain English. What problem does this repo solve? Who would use it?

How it works (high level)

2-4 bullet points explaining the architecture or flow. No code. Focus on concepts.

Key files and folders

A short table:

Path What it does
... ...
Who it's for

One sentence. Developer? PM? Data scientist? End user?

How to get started

Copy the "Quick Start" or "Installation" steps from the README verbatim, or summarize if there is none. Maximum 5 steps.

Interesting things to note

2-3 observations: unusual design choices, dependencies worth knowing about, anything a PM should flag.


Rules:

  • Use plain English throughout — no code unless quoting directly from the repo
  • If the README is missing or thin, say so and work from what you can find in the file structure
  • If you cannot access the repo (private, 404, etc.), tell the user clearly and stop
  • After the write-up, ask: "Want me to save this to docs/repo-summary.md?"

$ARGUMENTS

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. 8d ago First seen · 48 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 868cc03731aa

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explain-me-a-repo is a command published in the GitHub repository hamzafarooq/claude-code-starter (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 407 tokens. 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 2026-08-30.