eli5

eli5 is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kanevry/session-orchestrator. It costs 66 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language explanation mode for restating a previous answer or a named topic. It aims to keep all the facts while making the wording easier for a very young reader to understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /eli5 followed by a topic, or after saying that an earlier answer was unclear or too technical.
Why use it?
It helps when an answer is too technical, too long, or unclear. The explanation can clarify what needs to be done without leaving out information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is [`skills/eli5/SKILL.md`](../../../skills/eli5/SKILL.md); read that file for the full instructions..

Part of the session-orchestrator plugin — 53 skills, 31 commands, 17 agents, 10 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it with /eli5 followed by a topic, or after saying that an earlier answer was unclear or too technical.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kanevry/session-orchestrator
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kanevry/session-orchestrator/eli5

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install session-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 31 commands, 17 agents, 10 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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 eli5

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for eli5

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 380 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 9
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 13
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00066 $0.00380
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00152
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00038

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 10cea8f76ecb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eli5 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/eli5/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

eli5

Portable mirror — generated, do not edit. The canonical workflow lives at skills/eli5/SKILL.md; read that file for the full instructions. This mirror carries only agentskills.io-spec-legal frontmatter so harnesses that discover skills under .agents/skills/ can find and route to the skill.

Regenerate with node scripts/generate-agents-skills.mjs.

Read the linked document in full and follow its complete workflow, including prechecks and stop conditions. Resolve its link relative to this SKILL.md, not the project working directory. The plugin root is three directories above this file. Resolve package paths such as skills/ and scripts/ from that root and relative links in the canonical document from its own directory. Keep the user’s project as the target of project operations.

$ARGUMENTS means the trailing user input after the selected command skill, or an empty string when absent. Preserve flags, quoted text, and Unicode as data. Do not perform global substitution in the command document, shell expansion on the argument string, or execution of that string as shell code. Pass command arguments through structured tool parameters or safely quoted individual arguments.

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago Changed · +4 lines 10cea8f76ecb
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines c3045f99cd0a
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines f5fc7285199d
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 78862a45d81b

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eli5 is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kanevry/session-orchestrator (52 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 380 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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