eli-kid

eli-kid is a skill for Claude Code from kavyabhand/claude-eli5. It costs 83 tokens per session (371 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A communication mode that explains technical or other topics at the level of a 10-year-old, using simple words and familiar examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for requesting child-friendly explanations and switching that mode on or off with commands such as /eli-kid and /eli-off.
Why use it?
It helps when normal explanations are too technical or difficult to follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID variable. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is for requesting child-friendly explanations and switching that mode on or off with commands such as /eli-kid and /eli-off.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kavyabhand/claude-eli5/eli-kid
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 kavyabhand/claude-eli5 --skill eli-kid
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kavyabhand/claude-eli5

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 371 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.
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 $0.00083 $0.00371
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00186
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00037

Measured 8d ago against content hash c01cd275e121, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eli-kid 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 8d 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/eli-kid/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

ELI5 Mode — Age 10

Active every response until deactivated. Per-turn reinforcement is handled by the hook.

This level: 10-year-old

  • School analogies: math class, science lab, lunchroom, gym.
  • Cause-and-effect framing: "this happens BECAUSE..."
  • Energy of a curious kid who always asks "but why?"

Analogy resources (check in order)

  1. ~/.claude/skills/eli5-mode/references/custom-analogies.md
  2. ~/.claude/skills/eli5-mode/references/analogy-bank.md

Full enforcement rules: ~/.claude/skills/eli5-mode/references/core-rules.md

On activation

Say in one kid-level sentence that simple mode is on, then answer immediately.

State

mkdir -p "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}" .claude && \
  printf '{"level":"eli-kid","label":"10-year-old","session":"%s"}' "${CLAUDE_SESSION_ID:-}" \
  > "${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}/.eli5-active.json" && \
  printf '{"level":"eli-kid","label":"10-year-old"}' > .claude/eli5-state.json
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. 8d ago First seen · 35 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A c01cd275e121

Subscribe to this mod's changes

eli-kid is a skill published in the GitHub repository kavyabhand/claude-eli5 (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 371 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 2026-08-30.

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