explain

A command for submitting or starting an explanation of the coding approach before code is written.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to submit a plan for approval or check whether an explanation is already waiting for review.
Why use it?
It creates a review point where you can approve, revise, or reject the proposed approach first.

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/gowtham012/claude-plugins/explain
Any agent
npx skills add gowtham012/Claude-plugins --skill explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gowtham012/Claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 121 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 $0.00014 $0.00121
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00060
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00012

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0b6efdbd5e75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

rubber-duck/skills/explain/SKILL.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

If arguments were provided, call mcp__rubber-duck__submit_explanation with cwd = current working directory and explanation = the provided arguments.

If no arguments, call mcp__rubber-duck__read_status first to check current state, then prompt the user to describe their approach.

After submitting, tell the user their explanation is pending approval and they should approve, revise, or reject it.

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 · 12 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 0b6efdbd5e75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository gowtham012/Claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 121 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 2026-08-31.

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