bro

A short instruction that asks an agent to restate its previous message in simpler, clearer language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an agent gives a confusing, overly technical, or unnecessarily long response.
Why use it?
It helps remove jargon and make an explanation easier for a person to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/djrhails/dotfiles/bro
Any agent
npx skills add DJRHails/dotfiles --skill bro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DJRHails/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 77 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00016 $0.00077
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00039
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00015
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00008

Measured 2d ago against content hash 19b36a916ed9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bro 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 2d 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

This is a copy

86% identical to bro — 1 line differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

modules/agents/skills/bro/SKILL.md · 9 lines

What it actually says

Restate your last message. Stop using jargon and speak coherently. State it more simply and concisely, like one human talking to another.

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. 2d ago First seen · 9 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 19b36a916ed9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

bro is a skill published in the GitHub repository DJRHails/dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 77 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to bro, differing in 1 line, and is treated as a copy.

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