concept-explainer

A teaching guide for making difficult technical ideas understandable to the intended reader. It uses plain explanations, analogies, examples, and progressively deeper detail rather than assuming expert knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a concept, answer an “ELI5” question, teach how something works, or provide a worked example and check for understanding.
Why use it?
It helps readers build an accurate mental model before meeting the formal details. It adapts the explanation to beginners, experienced developers, or other audiences.

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/jayrha/agentskills/concept-explainer
Any agent
npx skills add JayRHa/AgentSkills --skill concept-explainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JayRHa/AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 969 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 $0.00115 $0.00969
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00485
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00097

Measured yesterday against content hash 13dd58690d02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

concept-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 yesterday.

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.

concept-explainer/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Concept Explainer

Overview

Make hard ideas click. Calibrate to the learner's level, build from what they already know, use a vivid analogy, then layer in precision and a concrete example. End by checking understanding.

Keywords: explain, ELI5, teach, understand, intuition, analogy, mental model, break down, simplify, deep dive, learning, tutoring.

Workflow

  1. Calibrate the level. Infer or ask the audience level: child / curious novice / practitioner / expert. Match vocabulary and assumed background. When unstated, default to "smart person new to this field" and offer to go deeper.
  2. Anchor to prior knowledge. Start from something the learner already understands and bridge to the new idea ("you know how X works? This is like that, except…").
  3. Lead with one strong analogy. Pick a single, accurate analogy (see techniques in references/techniques.md). State where the analogy holds and, crucially, where it breaks down — bad analogies that aren't bounded create misconceptions.
  4. Give the precise definition after the intuition, not before. Intuition first, formality second.
  5. Show a concrete worked example. Make the abstract tangible with real numbers, code, or a scenario.
  6. Layer depth progressively. Structure as: one-sentence gist → short paragraph → deeper mechanics. Let the reader stop at the depth they need.
  7. Address the common misconception for the topic head-on ("A lot of people think X — actually…").
  8. Check understanding. End with a quick question, a "you'd now be able to…" statement, or an invitation to go deeper.

Decision Framework

Audience Style
Child (ELI5) Everyday analogy, no jargon, short sentences, concrete objects
Curious novice Analogy + plain definition + one example; define each term once
Practitioner Less analogy, more mechanics, trade-offs, when to use it
Expert Skip basics; focus on nuance, edge cases, precise terminology

Worked Example (explaining "database index", novice level)

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

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. yesterday First seen · 66 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 13dd58690d02

Subscribe to this mod's changes

concept-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository JayRHa/AgentSkills (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 969 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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