explain-code

A guide for explaining code with everyday comparisons, text diagrams, step-by-step walkthroughs, and a warning about common mistakes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when teaching how a codebase works, answering questions about program behavior, or explaining relationships and data flow in code.
Why use it?
It gives explanations a consistent structure that can make unfamiliar code easier to follow and helps readers notice likely misunderstandings.

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/gpt-agi/clawd-code/explain-code
Any agent
npx skills add GPT-AGI/Clawd-Code --skill explain-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GPT-AGI/Clawd-Code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 134 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 $0.00038 $0.00134
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00067
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00013

Measured 2d ago against content hash aa12f1242377, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.clawd/skills/explain-code/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

When explaining code, always include:

  1. Start with an analogy: Compare the code to something from everyday life
  2. Draw a diagram: Use ASCII art to show the flow, structure, or relationships
  3. Walk through the code: Explain step-by-step what happens
  4. Highlight a gotcha: What's a common mistake or misconception?

Keep explanations conversational. For complex concepts, use multiple analogies.

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 · 14 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A aa12f1242377

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository GPT-AGI/Clawd-Code (572 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 134 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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