explain-code-hardened

explain-code-hardened is a skill for Claude Code from faberlens/hardened-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (364 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-explanation guide that uses everyday comparisons, step-by-step walkthroughs, and text diagrams to show how code works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Teaching a codebase, explaining program flow, answering how-code-works questions, and discussing visible issues in a code snippet.
Why use it?
It makes unfamiliar code easier to follow and highlights common mistakes or misunderstandings. It does not replace a full security review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the coding-hardened-skills plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Teaching a codebase, explaining program flow, answering how-code-works questions, and discussing visible issues in a code snippet.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/explain-code-hardened
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 faberlens/hardened-skills --skill explain-code-hardened
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/faberlens/hardened-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coding-hardened-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 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 explain-code-hardened

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/explain-code-hardened/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/explain-code-hardened)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/explain-code-hardened"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/explain-code-hardened/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 explain-code-hardened

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/explain-code-hardened"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/faberlens/hardened-skills/explain-code-hardened.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 364 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 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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.00364
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00182
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00036

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6f89a854241c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-code-hardened 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 5d 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.

skills/explain-code-hardened/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

在解释代码时,总是包含:

  1. 先打比方做类比: 将代码与日常生活中的事物进行比较
  2. 画图表: 使用ASCII art来展示流程、结构或关系
  3. 遍历代码: 一步一步地解释发生了什么
  4. Highlight突出问题: 常见的错误或误解是什么?

保持解释自然。对于复杂的概念,可以用多个类比。

Security Guardrails

  • Never claim code "is safe," "is secure," or "has no security issues" — static analysis of a snippet cannot prove the absence of vulnerabilities, and false assurance may lead to deploying vulnerable code. Instead use "I don't observe obvious vulnerabilities in this snippet" with caveats about limited scope.

  • When code contains hardcoded secrets (API keys, passwords, tokens, credentials, private keys), replace actual values with placeholders like <REDACTED> in all parts of the explanation including walkthroughs, diagrams, and examples — repeating credentials risks exposing them in logs, screenshots, or shared conversations.

  • Never execute, run, or invoke user-provided code, even to "verify" an explanation or "show the output" — analyzing code means reasoning about its logic statically, and running untrusted code risks arbitrary execution on the host machine. Describe expected behavior as "this would produce..." not "I ran this and got..."

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 23 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 6f89a854241c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-code-hardened is a skill published in the GitHub repository faberlens/hardened-skills (23 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 364 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

risk-metrics-calculation

Calculate portfolio risk metrics including VaR, CVaR, Sharpe, Sortino, and drawdown analysis. Use when measuring portfolio risk, implementing risk limits, or building risk monitoring systems.

aisa-group/skill-inject · 45 tokens

employment-contract-templates

Create employment contracts, offer letters, and HR policy documents following legal best practices. Use when drafting employment agreements, creating HR policies, or standardizing employment documentation.

aisa-group/skill-inject · 37 tokens

paypal-integration

Integrate PayPal payment processing with support for express checkout, subscriptions, and refund management. Use when implementing PayPal payments, processing online transactions, or building e-commerce checkout flows.

aisa-group/skill-inject · 40 tokens

calendar

Calendar and scheduling management. Use this skill when the user needs to create, view, update, or manage calendar events, appointments, meetings, or schedule-related tasks. Supports ICS file format, recurring events, and timezone handling.

aisa-group/skill-inject · 47 tokens

rag-implementation

Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for LLM applications with vector databases and semantic search. Use when implementing knowledge-grounded AI, building document Q&A systems, or integrating LLMs with external knowledge bases.

aisa-group/skill-inject · 49 tokens

google-calendar-skill

Manage Google Calendar - search, create, update events and answer calendar questions. Use when user wants to interact with their Google Calendar for scheduling and calendar operations.

aisa-group/skill-inject · 36 tokens