compabob: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/visual-explainer/SKILL.md

visual-explainer is a skill for Claude Code from chacosoldier/compabob. It costs 64 tokens per session (379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that creates one self-contained HTML page to explain a system, plan, comparison, timeline, architecture, or data set visually.

In plain words
What is it for?
Making standalone HTML explainers with inline styling, such as architecture overviews, before-and-after comparisons, timelines, and metric dashboards.
Why use it?
It turns complex relationships into an offline page with diagrams, tables, or other clear layouts instead of relying on a large block of text.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is chacosoldier/compabob's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on compabob itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything compabob configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chacosoldier/compabob. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chacosoldier/compabob/main/.claude/skills/visual-explainer/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chacosoldier/compabob

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 379 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 $0.00064 $0.00379
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash bf8f62d0acea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

visual-explainer 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.

.claude/skills/visual-explainer/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Visual Explainer

Produce one standalone HTML file that explains something clearly. Good for architecture overviews, plan reviews, before/after comparisons, timelines, and dashboards.

Steps

  1. Clarify the subject and the audience. What is being explained, and who reads it? That sets the depth.
  2. Choose the form: a flow diagram, a comparison table, a timeline, a layered architecture, a metric dashboard.
  3. Build one self-contained .html file:
    • All CSS inline in a <style> block. No external stylesheets, no CDN links, no network dependencies. The file must open correctly offline by double-clicking it.
    • Readable typography, generous spacing, a restrained palette.
    • Content-first: the explanation carries the page, decoration supports it.
  4. Grade any chart. If the page holds a quantitative chart (bar, line, scatter, area), run /chart-tufte on it and fix what it flags before saving.
  5. Save to reports/ (create the directory if needed) as YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.html.
  6. Tell the user the path so they can open it.

Principles

  • Self-contained or it does not count. One file, opens offline.
  • The page answers a question. Lead with that answer, same as any other output.
  • Prefer this over a large ASCII table (four or more rows, or three or more columns).
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 bf8f62d0acea
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8d4b2eb864c0

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visual-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository chacosoldier/compabob (34 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 379 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.