eli5

eli5 is a skill for Claude Code from doodledood/manifest-dev. It costs 39 tokens per session (121 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of eli5, MIT.

A teaching aid that explains a topic in very simple language, as if speaking to a five-year-old, using a page with large pictures and few words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request a beginner-friendly explanation of any topic by typing /eli5 followed by the topic.
Why use it?
It helps when technical explanations are too difficult or assume knowledge the reader does not have.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the manifest-dev-tools plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to request a beginner-friendly explanation of any topic by typing /eli5 followed by the topic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5
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 doodledood/manifest-dev --skill eli5
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doodledood/manifest-dev

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install manifest-dev-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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 eli5

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for eli5

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 121 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 100% 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00121
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00048
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00012

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 95e02a05cd6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eli5 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to eli5 — 2 lines 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.

claude-plugins/manifest-dev-tools/skills/eli5/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

eli5

Explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words.

Invoke the design skill for visual direction, then create the artifact — the purpose is comprehension, the genre a quick visual explainer. Where that skill is unavailable, keep the contrast readable and nothing load-bearing behind interaction.

Topic: $ARGUMENTS

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 95e02a05cd6b
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 5c15f24d4da2
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 11 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 3bb95cd13852

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eli5 is a skill published in the GitHub repository doodledood/manifest-dev (75 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 121 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to eli5, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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