explaining-code

A guide for explaining code in clear stages, from a short overview through key concepts, a section-by-section walkthrough, examples, and related ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when teaching or clarifying code, functions, snippets, programming techniques, or behavior with different inputs.
Why use it?
It gives explanations a consistent structure and ensures that unfamiliar technical terms and edge cases are addressed.

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/geeksfino/openskills/explaining-code
Any agent
npx skills add Geeksfino/openskills --skill explaining-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Geeksfino/openskills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 226 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 $0.00030 $0.00226
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00113
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00045
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00023

Measured 2d ago against content hash e872830af2ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explaining-code 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 2d 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.

examples/skills/explaining-code/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Code Explanation Skill

When explaining code, follow this structure:

1. Overview

Start with a one-sentence summary of what the code does.

2. Key Concepts

Identify and explain any important concepts, patterns, or techniques used.

3. Line-by-Line Breakdown

Walk through the code section by section, explaining:

  • What each part does
  • Why it's written that way
  • Any edge cases or gotchas

4. Examples

If helpful, provide examples of how the code would behave with different inputs.

Mention related concepts the user might want to learn about next.

Style Guidelines

  • Use simple language, avoiding jargon unless necessary
  • When using technical terms, define them briefly
  • Use analogies when they help clarify complex concepts
  • Format code snippets with syntax highlighting
  • Be thorough but concise
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. 2d ago First seen · 36 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A e872830af2ad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explaining-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository Geeksfino/openskills (70 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 226 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 2026-08-30.

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