tldr

tldr is a skill for Claude Code from ao92265/claude-code-playbook. It costs 126 tokens per session (521 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that rewrites the agent's previous answer in everyday language and lists the next actions. It is meant for readers who may not know technical terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an answer when you need a short summary, plain-language explanation, and concrete next steps.
Why use it?
It makes a technical answer easier to understand without adding new information or follow-up questions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the playbook plugin — 48 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after an answer when you need a short summary, plain-language explanation, and concrete next steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/tldr
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 ao92265/claude-code-playbook --skill tldr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ao92265/claude-code-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills, 4 hooks.

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 tldr

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/tldr"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ao92265/claude-code-playbook/tldr.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 521 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 $0.00126 $0.00521
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00052

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9f6b8da258b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tldr 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 8d 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.

skills/tldr/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

tldr

Take my last answer and say it again in plain English, then tell the user what to do next. This is a re-express, not a new answer — no fresh content, no extra detail, no new questions.

Output — three parts, in this order

  1. **TLDR:** — one sentence. The bottom line, the thing they actually need to know.
  2. Plain explanation — 2–5 short sentences in everyday words. An analogy only if it genuinely makes it clearer. No bullets unless the original was a list of separate things.
  3. **Next steps:** — a short numbered list of the concrete actions to take now: what to do, where, and the exact command to type if there is one. Mandatory — always present, even if it's a single step.

Rules

  • Next steps come from the original. Pull them from the last answer — decisions to confirm, commands to run, things to check. Don't invent work. If the last answer genuinely needs no follow-up, write **Next steps:** nothing to do — <one-line why>.
  • Jargon: swap technical terms for plain ones. If a term can't be avoided, define it inline in 4–6 words. No new acronyms.
  • Shorter than the original, always. If the original was already plain, say so in one line — but still give the Next steps.
  • Caveman-lite compatible: caveman cuts fluff, this cuts jargon. Output stays terse and plain. No conflict.

Don't

  • Don't restate code blocks line by line — summarize what the code does in one plain sentence.
  • If the last turn was a draft meant for someone else (email/Slack/Teams), don't restate it here — point to the draft-reply skill instead.
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. 8d ago First seen · 27 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 9f6b8da258b6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tldr is a skill published in the GitHub repository ao92265/claude-code-playbook (10 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 521 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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