explain

explain is a command for Claude Code from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework. It costs 17 tokens per session (759 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for explaining code, software concepts, or how a system behaves in language suited to the reader's level.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a function, component, architecture, framework concept, or system behavior at a basic, intermediate, or advanced level.
Why use it?
It helps people understand unfamiliar or complex software by organizing the explanation progressively and adding examples, diagrams, or interactive elements when appropriate.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the superclaude plugin — 5 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to explain a function, component, architecture, framework concept, or system behavior at a basic, intermediate, or advanced level.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/explain
About the project

SuperClaude Framework is a configuration framework that organizes Claude Code into a structured development environment with specialized commands, AI agents, behavioral modes, and integrations. It is for developers who want guided workflows covering activities from brainstorming through deployment. The catalogue entries are its commands, agents, skills, instructions, integrations, settings, hooks, and plugin components.

SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework · 23,905 stars · on GitHub · superclaude.netlify.app

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/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superclaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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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 759 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 $0.00017 $0.00759
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00304
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00076

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 14e04b314b2f, 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • explain — 100% identical, 12 lines differ
plugins/superclaude/commands/explain.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/sc:explain - Code and Concept Explanation

Triggers

  • Code understanding and documentation requests for complex functionality
  • System behavior explanation needs for architectural components
  • Educational content generation for knowledge transfer
  • Framework-specific concept clarification requirements

Usage

/sc:explain [target] [--level basic|intermediate|advanced] [--format text|examples|interactive] [--context domain]

Behavioral Flow

  1. Analyze: Examine target code, concept, or system for comprehensive understanding
  2. Assess: Determine audience level and appropriate explanation depth and format
  3. Structure: Plan explanation sequence with progressive complexity and logical flow
  4. Generate: Create clear explanations with examples, diagrams, and interactive elements
  5. Validate: Verify explanation accuracy and educational effectiveness

Key behaviors:

  • Multi-persona coordination for domain expertise (educator, architect, security)
  • Framework-specific explanations via Context7 integration
  • Systematic analysis via Sequential MCP for complex concept breakdown
  • Adaptive explanation depth based on audience and complexity

MCP Integration

  • Sequential MCP: Auto-activated for complex multi-component analysis and structured reasoning
  • Context7 MCP: Framework documentation and official pattern explanations
  • Persona Coordination: Educator (learning), Architect (systems), Security (practices)
  • Availability fallback: The MCP servers named here are preferred tooling, not hard requirements — when one is not installed, degrade gracefully (native reasoning in place of Sequential, official docs via web lookup in place of Context7, native tools otherwise) instead of routing work to absent servers.

Tool Coordination

  • Read/Grep/Glob: Code analysis and pattern identification for explanation content
  • TodoWrite: Progress tracking for complex multi-part explanations
  • Task: Delegation for comprehensive explanation workflows requiring systematic breakdown

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 14e04b314b2f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 92 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A ad1db7933021

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explain is a command published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework (23,905 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 759 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 2026-08-30.