java-explain

java-explain is a skill for Claude Code from ducpm2303/claude-java-plugins. It costs 46 tokens per session (409 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A plain-language Java code explainer that can also explain design patterns. Design patterns are common approaches to recurring software design problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps explain what code does, how it works, and which design patterns it uses.
Why use it?
It makes unfamiliar Java code easier to follow without requiring the reader to understand every detail first.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the java-core plugin — 14 skills, 2 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps explain what code does, how it works, and which design patterns it uses.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ducpm2303/claude-java-plugins/java-explain
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 ducpm2303/claude-java-plugins --skill java-explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ducpm2303/claude-java-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install java-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 2 commands, 2 hooks.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 409 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 $0.00046 $0.00409
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00164
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00041

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 662003f1b94d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

java-explain 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.

plugins/java-core/skills/java-explain/SKILL.md · 41 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 · 41 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 662003f1b94d

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java-explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository ducpm2303/claude-java-plugins (16 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 409 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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