explain-code

explain-code is a skill for Claude Code from devobsessed/code-captain. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A code explanation tool for a particular code element, file, or range of lines, including diagrams and the surrounding system structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain functions, classes, files, or selected lines with architectural context and diagrams.
Why use it?
It helps you understand unfamiliar code and how it fits into the wider application.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to explain functions, classes, files, or selected lines with architectural context and diagrams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/devobsessed/code-captain/explain-code
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 devobsessed/code-captain --skill explain-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/devobsessed/code-captain

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,067 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 $0.00019 $0.01067
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00427
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00107

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 418c714311cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-code 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-code/skills/explain-code/SKILL.md · 179 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 First seen · 179 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 418c714311cd

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explain-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository devobsessed/code-captain (15 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,067 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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