explain-new-project

explain-new-project is a skill for Claude Code from aka-kika/akakika-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,445 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A plain-language guide to an unfamiliar software project, covering what it is, how to run it, its main parts, and important gotchas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when opening a project, adding one to the workspace, or asking what a repository does and how to get started.
Why use it?
It helps self-taught developers understand a codebase without needing to infer its purpose from technical files alone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it when opening a project, adding one to the workspace, or asking what a repository does and how to get started.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aka-kika/akakika-skills/explain-new-project
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.

Any agent
npx skills add aka-kika/akakika-skills --skill explain-new-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aka-kika/akakika-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,445 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00093 $0.01445
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00723
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00145

Measured 12d ago against content hash f2979686e231, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

explain-new-project scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Do not lecture about best practices unless it affects *their* next step
skills/project-intelligence/explain-new-project/SKILL.md · 148 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 148 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explain New Project

Audience

The reader is self-taught (about two years of hands-on work), not tech-savvy, and learns best from everyday language. They are capable and curious—not beginners who need hand-holding, but people who want clarity without jargon walls.

Language rule

Write the report in the same language the user uses in chat (default: English). If they mix languages, follow their latest message.

"My own language" means:

  • Short sentences, active voice
  • No assumed CS degree
  • Technical terms only when needed—and always explained (see Jargon rule)
  • Analogies welcome when they clarify (one line max)

When invoked

  1. Confirm which folder is the project root (workspace root, or a path the user names).
  2. Explore before writing—do not guess. Read enough to be accurate.
  3. Write the full report using the template below.
  4. Always save PROJECT_GUIDE.md at the project root (same folder as README or main manifest). Overwrite if it already exists.
  5. In chat: show the Quick start sections in full, then one line pointing to the file for the rest—e.g. Full guide saved to PROJECT_GUIDE.md—scroll down there for the map, tech stack, gotchas, and next steps.

Exploration checklist

Work through these until you have a confident picture (skip what does not exist):

- [ ] README, README.*, docs/, AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING
- [ ] Top-level folders (what lives where)
- [ ] Manifest: package.json, pyproject.toml, Cargo.toml, go.mod, Podfile, etc.
- [ ] Entry points: main app file, index, App.tsx, src/main.*
- [ ] How to run: scripts in package.json, Makefile, docker-compose, .env.example
- [ ] Tests folder (if any)—only to say *whether* tests exist, not to teach testing
- [ ] .gitignore / deploy hints (Vercel, Docker, etc.)—plain words only

Use search/read tools; prefer evidence from files over assumptions.

Jargon rule

Whenever you use a term the reader might not know (API, dependency, build, deploy, framework, repo, branch, env var, etc.):

Read the full file on GitHub · 148 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 148 lines · 93 tokens per session scan B f2979686e231

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-new-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository aka-kika/akakika-skills (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,445 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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