explain

explain is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Anantys-oss/koan. It costs 32 tokens per session (141 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A command that explains the purpose and changes in a pull request, which is a proposed set of code changes for review and merging.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for explaining a pull request from a GitHub link, such as a repository owner's pull request number 42.
Why use it?
It gives developers a plain-language summary when the purpose or impact of a pull request is difficult to understand from the code alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit It is for explaining a pull request from a GitHub link, such as a repository owner's pull request number 42.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anantys-oss/koan/explain
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 Anantys-oss/koan --skill explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Anantys-oss/koan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for explain

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anantys-oss/koan/explain/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anantys-oss/koan/explain)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anantys-oss/koan/explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anantys-oss/koan/explain/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for explain

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anantys-oss/koan/explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anantys-oss/koan/explain.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 141 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 unknown 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 $0.00032 $0.00141
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00056
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00028
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00014

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1ef4ec3b3b69, 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (explain_runner.py, handler.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

koan/skills/core/explain/SKILL.md · 20 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines 1ef4ec3b3b69
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 19 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 16188673ca06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository Anantys-oss/koan (47 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 141 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.

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