explain-e

A command that opens a separate question-and-answer pane about the current conversation. It sends an optional question to that pane using a selected model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to open the explanation pane, optionally with a question or model choice. It can also refresh the pane's context or close it by following its stated commands.
Why use it?
It gives you a separate place to ask for explanations without interrupting the main terminal workflow. The provided details do not describe how the pane answers questions.

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/laychic/claude-code-explain-pane/explain-e
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laychic/claude-code-explain-pane
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 252 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 $0.00017 $0.00252
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00126
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00025

Measured 2d ago against content hash bb6d2e1a5cb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-e 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-e.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Parse the ARGUMENTS string below for optional flags:

  • If -r <text> or bare text (no flag) is present, that is the QUESTION.
  • If -m <model> is present, that is the MODEL (default: haiku).

Build and run ONE bash command:

bash ~/.claude/hooks/explain-send.sh [-r "QUESTION"] [-m MODEL]

Examples:

  • ARGUMENTS: hellobash ~/.claude/hooks/explain-send.sh -r "hello"
  • ARGUMENTS: -r "what happened" -m sonnetbash ~/.claude/hooks/explain-send.sh -r "what happened" -m sonnet
  • ARGUMENTS: (empty) → bash ~/.claude/hooks/explain-send.sh

Then reply ONLY with:

Explain pane ready. Ask questions directly in the right pane. Type exit to close, r to refresh context.

Do NOT use any other tools. Do NOT call Write, Read, or any other tool. Just the one Bash command above, then reply.

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 · 25 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A bb6d2e1a5cb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-e is a command published in the GitHub repository laychic/claude-code-explain-pane (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 252 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.