explain

explain is a command for Claude Code from HigorAlves/orc. It costs 72 tokens per session (877 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that turns a completed QA packet into a narrated walkthrough of what was built and proven. It uses demo footage, motion graphics, and a locally generated voice track, with a preview before rendering.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for explaining a tested feature through its successful user journey, with visual callouts and spoken narration.
Why use it?
It removes the need to assemble test evidence into a presentation by hand and keeps the rendering process local.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the orc plugin — 84 skills, 31 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It is for explaining a tested feature through its successful user journey, with visual callouts and spoken narration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/higoralves/orc/explain
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HigorAlves/orc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 84 skills, 31 commands, 14 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 72 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 877 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 $0.00072 $0.00877
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00351
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00088

Measured 9d ago against content hash 718c6002b6c5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 9d 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.

orc/commands/explain.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/orc:explain

Turn a QA packet into a short narrated walkthrough of what was built and proven: demo footage of the golden path, motion-graphic title/callout/outcome segments, one voice track. Everything renders locally (kokoro-js, ffmpeg, optional animate plugin). Nothing is uploaded without the evidence-publish gates.

Arguments

  • --qa-dir <dir> — packet to explain. Default: the active session's ${ORC_STATE_DIR}/<sanitized-branch>/files/qa/; else the newest .orc/evidence/*/ packet; else ask.
  • --target <name> — target for the demo pass when the packet has no demo/ clips (orc:qa-targets); default: the session's settled target.
  • --style <s> — animate style (cut-paper|crosshatch|riso|sketchbook|math|pixel|isometric); default userConfig explainer_style.
  • --voice <v> — kokoro voice id; default userConfig explainer_voice (af_heart; pf_dora for pt-BR).
  • --auto[=guided|full] — autopilot (orc:gates §6). Pre-approves the Explainer gate; delivery gates always ask.

Workflow

Phase 0 — Context

!orc-workspace-detect --banner Resolve the packet dir (above). qa-manifest.json missing ⇒ stop: 🛑 No QA packet — run /orc:qa first.

Phase 1 — Build

Invoke orc:explainer with the packet dir, the plan path when the session has one, the target name + override (only if the demo pass is needed; the skill resolves credentials inline, never as a standalone command), style, voice. It runs the demo pass if needed, writes explain/segments.json, runs the Explainer gate, narrates, authors the animate scenes (when animate is installed), renders explainer-<branch>.mp4, and updates the manifest + steps.md.

Phase 2 — Deliver

Invoke orc:evidence-publish with qaDir, the manifest verdict, and explainerFile. Its questions (Jira upload / private Artifact / PR comment) are hard-outward — always asked. Keep-local is the default.

Phase 3 — Record

Session present ⇒ orc-state digest write - with Explainer: explainer-<branch>.mp4 (<seconds>s) and append ## Explainer — <ISO> to progress.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 59 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 718c6002b6c5

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explain is a command published in the GitHub repository HigorAlves/orc (6 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 877 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-08.