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.
npx skills add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill visual-explainergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalismWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/visual-explainer)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/visual-explainer"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/visual-explainer.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- high Tool Misuse · line 134 Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 194 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00032 | $0.09458 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00016 | $0.04729 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.01892 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00946 |
Grade A, and why
visual-explainer 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.
Copies of this mod
3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- visual-explainer — 91% identical, 342 lines differ
- visual-explainer — 86% identical, 355 lines differ
- visual-explainer — 80% identical, 445 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 525 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Visual explainer
Generate self-contained HTML files for technical diagrams, editorial visualizations, and data tables. Always open the result in the browser. Never fall back to ASCII art when this skill is loaded.
Proactive table rendering. When you're about to present tabular data as an ASCII box-drawing table in the terminal (comparisons, audits, feature matrices, status reports, source verification grids, any structured rows/columns), generate an HTML page instead. The threshold: if the table has 4+ rows or 3+ columns, it belongs in the browser. Don't wait for the user to ask, render it as HTML automatically and tell them the file path. You can still include a brief text summary in the chat, but the table itself should be the HTML page.
Available commands
Detailed prompt templates in ./commands/. In Claude Code, namespaced (/visual-explainer:diff-review). In Pi, these are slash commands (/diff-review). In Codex, use /prompts:diff-review (if installed to ~/.codex/prompts/) or invoke $visual-explainer and describe the workflow.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
generate-web-diagram |
Generate an HTML diagram for any topic |
generate-visual-plan |
Generate a visual implementation plan for a feature |
generate-slides |
Generate a magazine-quality slide deck |
diff-review |
Visual diff review with architecture comparison and code review |
plan-review |
Compare a plan against the codebase with risk assessment |
project-recap |
Mental model snapshot for context-switching back to a project |
fact-check |
Verify accuracy of a document against actual code |
share-page |
Deploy an HTML page to Vercel and get a live URL |
Workflow
1. Think (5 seconds, not 5 minutes)
Before writing HTML, commit to a direction. Don't default to "dark theme with blue accents" every time.
Visual is always default. Even essays, blog posts, and articles get visual treatment, extract structure into cards, diagrams, grids, tables.
What ships with it
24 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
- .claude-plugin/plugin.json 397 B
- agents/openai.yaml 143 B
- commands/diff-review.md 8.2 KB
- commands/fact-check.md 4.6 KB
- commands/generate-slides.md 1.9 KB
- commands/generate-visual-plan.md 6.8 KB
- commands/generate-web-diagram.md 907 B
- commands/plan-review.md 9.1 KB
- commands/project-recap.md 7.0 KB
- commands/share-page.md 2.3 KB
- references/css-patterns.md 43 KB
- references/libraries.md 23 KB
- references/responsive-nav.md 5.7 KB
- references/slide-patterns.md 44 KB
- scripts/share.sh 2.0 KB runs code
- templates/architecture.html 8.8 KB
- templates/data-table.html 12 KB
- templates/mermaid-flowchart.html 9.3 KB
- templates/slide-deck.html 36 KB
- templates/vendor/mermaid-11.16.0.mjs 3437 KB runs code
- templates/vendor/mermaid-11.16.0.mjs.LEGAL.txt 2.6 KB
- templates/vendor/MERMAID-LICENSE 1.1 KB
- templates/vendor/README.md 792 B
- templates/vendor/SHA256SUMS 86 B
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 525 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A a458195bb665
visual-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (387 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 9,458 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 2026-09-05.
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