explain-project

explain-project is a skill for Claude Code from davistroy/claude-marketplace. It costs 125 tokens per session (6,385 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A tool that examines a software project and writes an annotated technical overview as a Word document. It explains how the project works for an intelligent reader without computer-science training and includes definitions, notes, and a glossary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document a repository's architecture, processes, and technical details in a styled .docx file with explanations and optional images.
Why use it?
Codebases can be difficult to understand when their structure and terminology are undocumented. This turns the code into a readable guide for people who need to learn or review it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the personal-plugin plugin — 29 skills, 23 commands, 10 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to document a repository's architecture, processes, and technical details in a styled .docx file with explanations and optional images.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davistroy/claude-marketplace/explain-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 davistroy/claude-marketplace --skill explain-project
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davistroy/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install personal-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 23 commands, 10 agents, 2 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 explain-project

README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,385 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 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 $0.00125 $0.06385
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.03193
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00639

Measured 6d ago against content hash 20fa28e80093, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

explain-project scanned grade C 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 6d 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.

Hidden instructionshighPrompt injection

Directives inside HTML comments, invisible characters or bidirectional overrides are read by the model and not by the person reviewing the file.

<!-- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ EXPLAIN PROJECT SKILL ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ PURPOSE: Generates a comprehensive technical overview doc
plugins/personal-plugin/skills/explain-project/SKILL.md · 495 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 495 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explain Project

Generate a comprehensive technical overview document for a project, written for a brilliant reader who lacks computer science training.

Target reader: A top-quintile intelligence mechanical engineer. Sharp, process-oriented, comfortable with measurements and thresholds, experienced with quality systems and structured problem-solving. Has never taken a CS class.

Output: A styled Word document (.docx) with all accessibility annotations baked in — sidebars, glossary, inline definitions, footnotes, developer section labels, and optionally generated images.

Read the full file on GitHub · 495 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 495 lines · 125 tokens per session scan C 20fa28e80093

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-project is a skill published in the GitHub repository davistroy/claude-marketplace (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 6,385 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (hidden instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.

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