understand-anything

understand-anything is a skill for Claude Code from gyuch-an02/claude-omakase. It costs 38 tokens per session (306 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching guide for explaining code, concepts, systems, and errors from basic ideas upward. It uses examples, analogies, and annotated code to build understanding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn how unfamiliar code works, understand an error, or build a clear mental model of a system.
Why use it?
It helps when a quick fix is not enough and the underlying idea is unclear. Explanations are adjusted to the reader’s level.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-omakase plugin — 8 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn how unfamiliar code works, understand an error, or build a clear mental model of a system.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gyuch-an02/claude-omakase/understand-anything
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 gyuch-an02/claude-omakase --skill understand-anything
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gyuch-an02/claude-omakase

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-omakase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 306 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 $0.00038 $0.00306
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00153
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00031

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5243c3f5a9cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

understand-anything 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 12d 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/understand-anything/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Understand Anything

When the user wants to understand something — code, a concept, an error, a system — go deep.

Process

  1. Identify what to explain: the specific thing the user is confused about.
  2. Find the right level: ask one clarifying question if needed — "Do you want the 30-second version or the full picture?"
  3. Explain bottom-up: start with the core intuition (one sentence), then build up. Use analogies from domains the user knows.
  4. Show, don't tell: for code, annotate key lines. For systems, sketch the flow in ASCII if it helps.
  5. Check understanding: end with "Does that track? What's still fuzzy?"

What makes a good explanation

  • Lead with WHY before HOW
  • Use concrete examples, not abstract definitions
  • Name the thing the user was confused about explicitly
  • Acknowledge what's genuinely tricky about it

Don't

  • Don't paste documentation verbatim
  • Don't explain things the user clearly already knows
  • Don't stop at the surface — go one level deeper than they asked
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. 12d ago First seen · 31 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 5243c3f5a9cb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

understand-anything is a skill published in the GitHub repository gyuch-an02/claude-omakase (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 306 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 2026-08-31.

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