explain

explain is a skill for Claude Code from FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins. It costs 15 tokens per session (966 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for explaining code, technical concepts, or system behavior at different levels of detail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Understanding files, functions, modules, architecture, and the flow of data or control.
Why use it?
It turns unfamiliar implementation details into an explanation matched to the reader's needs.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the session-tools plugin — 8 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit Understanding files, functions, modules, architecture, and the flow of data or control.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install session-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 plugin.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 966 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00015 $0.00966
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00386
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00193
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00097

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c30dc3ef940b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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/session-tools/skills/explain/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Explainer

Explain code, concepts, or system behavior with adjustable depth levels.

Purpose

Get clear explanations of:

  • How specific code works
  • Why certain patterns are used
  • What a system/module does
  • Architectural decisions and trade-offs

Instructions

Step 1: Determine Scope

Identify what needs explanation:

  • File: Entire file structure and purpose
  • Function/Method: Specific implementation details
  • Concept: Architectural pattern or design decision
  • Flow: How data/control moves through the system

Step 2: Assess Complexity

Simple (1-2 min read)     → Quick summary, key points only
Standard (3-5 min read)   → Purpose, how it works, key decisions
Deep (10+ min read)       → Full breakdown, alternatives, trade-offs

Step 3: Gather Context

# For file explanations
head -50 "$FILE"  # See imports and structure

# For function explanations
grep -A 30 "function $NAME\|def $NAME\|fn $NAME" "$FILE"

# For module explanations
ls -la "$DIR"
cat "$DIR/index.ts" 2>/dev/null || cat "$DIR/__init__.py" 2>/dev/null

Step 4: Structure the Explanation

Output Format


📖 Explanation: [Target]

Scope: [file/function/concept/flow] Depth: [simple/standard/deep]

What It Does

[1-3 sentences describing the purpose]

How It Works

[Step-by-step breakdown appropriate to depth level]

Key Decisions

Decision Why Alternative
[choice made] [reasoning] [what else could work]

Example Usage

// How to use this correctly

Related Code

  • path/to/related.ts - [relationship]
  • path/to/dependency.ts - [relationship]

💡 Learning Notes (if --learn flag)

[Additional context for understanding the broader pattern]


Depth Levels

Simple (/explain --simple)

**validateUser()** checks if the user object has required fields
(email, password) and returns a boolean. Uses regex for email format.

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 lines

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 · 175 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A c30dc3ef940b

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explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository FlorianBruniaux/claude-code-plugins (43 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 966 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-04.

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