Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to analyticalmonk/explain-this. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/analyticalmonk/explain-this/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/analyticalmonk/explain-thisWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/analyticalmonk/explain-this/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/analyticalmonk/explain-this/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/analyticalmonk/explain-this/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/analyticalmonk/explain-this/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/analyticalmonk/explain-this/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00680 | $0.00680 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00272 | $0.00272 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00136 | $0.00136 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00068 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
explain-this AGENTS.md 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 31 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Repository Guidelines
Project Structure & Module Organization
This repository is a Claude Code and Codex plugin plus Agent Skills package. Plugin metadata lives in .claude-plugin/ for Claude Code and .codex-plugin/plugin.json for Codex. The three skills live under skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md; keep that layout flat (one skill folder per name, SKILL.md directly inside) - it is what the skills.sh CLI (npx skills add) and OpenClaw discover. Codex UI metadata lives in skills/*/agents/openai.yaml. Deeper guidance is kept in skills/*/references/, and reusable article scaffolding is in skills/creating-explainers/assets/article-template.html. Human-facing installation and usage docs are in README.md, while CLAUDE.md captures maintainer guidance for Claude Code. Planning and design notes belong in docs/, and evaluation prompts are centralized in evals/evals.json.
Build, Test, and Development Commands
There is no package manager, build step, or dependency install for this repo. Useful local commands are:
rg "term" skills docs README.md- search skill and documentation content.python3 -m http.server 8000- serve a generated explainer directory that containsindex.htmlfor browser inspection.python3 /home/analyticalmonk/.codex/skills/.system/plugin-creator/scripts/validate_plugin.py .- validate Codex plugin metadata.git diff --check- catch whitespace issues before committing.
Generated articles must remain standalone HTML with inline CSS and JavaScript.
Coding Style & Naming Conventions
Use Markdown for skill and reference instructions. Keep SKILL.md files focused on trigger rules and workflow; put long, situational guidance in references/ so it loads lazily. Use lowercase kebab-case for skill and reference names, for example creating-explainers and voice-and-style.md. Keep agents/openai.yaml short and aligned with the skill frontmatter. Avoid em dashes in repository prose and templates. Produced article code should stay vanilla HTML/CSS/JS with no npm, React, D3, Tailwind, or shared build tooling.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 680 tokens per session scan A ab917aea7d8e
explain-this AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository analyticalmonk/explain-this (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 680 tokens to every session, about $0.0027 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.
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