explain-code

explain-code is a skill for Claude Code from henriquemoody/charlie. It costs 30 tokens per session (127 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of explain-code, MIT.

An instructional aid for explaining code with everyday comparisons, text diagrams, step-by-step walkthroughs, and a common-mistake warning. It is designed for readers who need both the overall idea and the execution flow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when explaining how code works or answering questions about a program's flow, relationships, and likely pitfalls.
Why use it?
It makes unfamiliar code easier to understand by showing its structure and behavior in several complementary ways.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

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/henriquemoody/charlie/explain-code
Any agent
npx skills add henriquemoody/charlie --skill explain-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/henriquemoody/charlie

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

agentmods badge for explain-code

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/henriquemoody/charlie/explain-code"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/henriquemoody/charlie/explain-code.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 127 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 89% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00030 $0.00127
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00063
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00025
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00013

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8774a558a3a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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

This is a copy

89% identical to explain-code — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

examples/simple/.claude/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. 5d ago First seen · 14 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 8774a558a3a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository henriquemoody/charlie (6 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 127 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to explain-code, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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