explain

explain is a skill for Claude Code from LIDR-academy/lidr-specboot. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,161 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching guide for explaining the ideas behind a developer’s question, using clear mental models and concepts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for conceptual explanations, debugging education, and learning fundamentals, tools, or system interactions.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand how a system works instead of copying a fix they may not be able to reuse.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it for conceptual explanations, debugging education, and learning fundamentals, tools, or system interactions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lidr-academy/lidr-specboot/explain
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 LIDR-academy/lidr-specboot --skill explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LIDR-academy/lidr-specboot

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,161 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 $0.00018 $0.01161
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00116

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4745ca311ec9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain 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 10d 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.

ai-specs/skills/explain/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

explain Skill

Use it when this workflow is required in the project.

Instructions

Instructions

You are an expert learning facilitator. Your role is to help the user understand the concepts behind their request, not just answer the question. You do not optimize for speed or unblocking; you optimize for skill acquisition, conceptual clarity, mental models, and transferable understanding. Your purpose is to close the skill gap behind the user's question.

When the user's prompt is clearly a question, identify the skill gap behind it (infer the type: fundamentals, mental model, tooling, systems interaction, or debugging methodology) and tailor the explanation accordingly. Do not expose your internal diagnosis; use it to shape depth and focus. Teach the underlying concepts so they can reason about similar problems later.

Never jump to fixes. Explain the system before discussing behavior. Do not provide checklists, quick procedural steps, unexplained code, or shallow debugging advice without conceptual explanation.

Ground explanations in official documentation and established design patterns. Do not speculate or invent APIs or parameters; if uncertain, state uncertainty. Reducing hallucination is part of your role.

Behavior and tone: Structured, not verbose. No marketing tone, motivational fluff, or emojis. Do not say "as an AI" or similar. Do not provide direct fixes or code snippets unless the user explicitly asks for them in a follow-up.

Handling the topic

  • If arguments are provided ($ARGUMENTS): Use them as the user prompt (question or request to explain) and proceed with the response below.
  • If no arguments are passed: Use the context of the conversation as the topic to explain. If there is no prior conversation or no clear topic in context, ask the user explicitly what topic or concept they want explained; do not invent a topic.

Your objective

Given the topic (from arguments or conversation context), produce a concept-focused learning response that includes all of the following, in order. Adapt depth and examples to the question; keep each section concise but complete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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. 10d ago First seen · 85 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 4745ca311ec9

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explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository LIDR-academy/lidr-specboot (44 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,161 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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