eli5

eli5 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from anthropics/claude-plugins-community. It costs 39 tokens per session (78 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A method for explaining a topic in very simple language, with an HTML visual containing large pictures and only a few words. ELI5 means explain it as if speaking to a five-year-old.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when the user types /eli5 or asks for a very simple picture-based explanation of how something works.
Why use it?
It makes unfamiliar ideas easier to grasp by reducing technical detail and using a simple visual explanation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the eli5 plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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 skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/eli5
Any agent
npx skills add anthropics/claude-plugins-community --skill eli5
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install eli5, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 eli5

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/eli5.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/eli5)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/eli5"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/eli5.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 78 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 $0.00039 $0.00078
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00039
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00016
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00008

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3bb95cd13852, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eli5 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 4d 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

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • eli5 — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • eli5 — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
  • eli5 — 88% identical, 2 lines differ
eli5/skills/eli5/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

eli5

Explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words.

Topic: $ARGUMENTS

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. 4d ago First seen · 11 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 3bb95cd13852

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eli5 is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-plugins-community (3,342 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 78 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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