explain-pr

A pull-request explainer that reads a PR's description and code changes. A pull request is a proposed change to a codebase that others review before it is merged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to understand an unfamiliar PR, prepare a review, or explain a change to teammates. It focuses on the background problem, solution, and key design choices.
Why use it?
It turns implementation details into a short explanation of the original problem and how the proposed changes address it.

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/dyoshikawa/rulesync/explain-pr
Any agent
npx skills add dyoshikawa/rulesync --skill explain-pr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dyoshikawa/rulesync

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 189 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00015 $0.00189
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00095
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00038
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00019

Measured yesterday against content hash 7bf3ab67b8cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-pr 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 yesterday.

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.

.rulesync/skills/explain-pr/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

target_pr = the user's request

If target_pr is not provided, use the PR of the current branch.

Step 1: Gather PR Information

Run the following in parallel:

  • Get the PR description and metadata: gh pr view <pr_number>
  • Get the PR diff: gh pr diff <pr_number>

Step 2: Analyze and Explain

Based on the PR content, explain the following two aspects:

  1. Background (Problem/Motivation): What issue or limitation existed before this PR? Why was this change needed?
  2. Solution: What approach does this PR take to address the problem? Summarize the key changes and design decisions.

Keep the explanation concise and focused. Use the language of the current conversation (follow the user's language).

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. yesterday First seen · 27 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 7bf3ab67b8cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-pr is a skill published in the GitHub repository dyoshikawa/rulesync (1,362 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 189 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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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