what

what is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,091 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A plain-language explanation workflow for breaking down an unfamiliar question or statement. It adapts the explanation to the reader's technical level and can include examples from open-source software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks what a term, concept, or statement means, or wants an explanation suitable for their experience level. It can cover definitions, trade-offs, context, and relevant open-source examples.
Why use it?
It makes technical ideas easier to understand without assuming prior knowledge. It separates explanation from implementation work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when someone asks what a term, concept, or statement means, or wants an explanation suitable for their experience level. It can cover definitions, trade-offs, context, and relevant open-source examples.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinmendezai/the-adam-repo/what
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 Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo --skill what
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,091 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00072 $0.01091
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00545
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00109

Measured 12d ago against content hash a2ca817b994f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

what 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/what/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

what?

Explain mode — not build mode. Turn confusion into calibrated clarity + OSS context agents can reuse.

Before answering

  1. Read (if present):
    • adam/context/technical-level.md
    • adam/context/preferences.md (Teach me / Pair / Just build it)
  2. If missing → calibrate is incomplete. Answer at beginner + Teach me defaults, then continue calibrate in this chat. Do not tell them to type /calibrate.
  3. Do not write product code unless user pivots to build.

Calibrated voice (required)

Level Words Structure OSS research
never coded No jargon without plain-English gloss; analogies first Short paragraphs; numbered steps 1–2 famous OSS products they'd recognize ("like how WordPress…")
beginner Define terms on first use Bullets; one concept per bullet 1–2 repos with what to look at (README section, folder name)
intermediate Standard dev vocabulary OK Pro/con table + when-to-use 2–3 repos or reference implementations + file paths to skim
professional Terse; no tutorial padding Bottom line → tradeoffs → links Best OSS reference + why it matters; skip basics

Preferences override:

  • Teach me → +1 depth level of explanation (never skip "why").
  • Just build it → compress to decision summary + links (still run OSS scan if non-obvious).
  • Pair with me → middle path; ask one checkpoint question at end.

If never coded and topic involves IDE/git/repo: include a "Where this lives" box (Cursor = the app; repo = project folder; agent = helper in chat).

Workflow

  1. Restate the user's question in one plain sentence ("You're asking whether…").
  2. Simplest terms — core idea in 2–4 sentences max before detail.
  3. Pros / cons / when — markdown table (minimum 2 pros, 2 cons, 1 "use when / skip when").
  4. Supporting context — only what changes the decision (constraints, common mistakes, related terms).
  5. OSS research pod (always for non-trivial topics):
    • Search for open-source reference implementations, not blog opinions.
    • Prefer: active repo, clear README, license compatible with learning, similar problem shape.
    • Output Agent context block (below) — paths/links agents should read before implementing.
    • Save longer dumps to scratch/research/what-<slug>-<YYYYMMDD>.md when >15 lines.
  6. Next step — do it or ask one plain-language question (“Want me to keep going on the first version?”). Never list slash commands.

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

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 · 103 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A a2ca817b994f

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what is a skill published in the GitHub repository Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,091 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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