wait-what

wait-what is a skill for Claude Code from lttr/claude-marketplace. It costs 21 tokens per session (285 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A prompt for restating an explanation when the previous message was unclear. It asks for missing context, short sentences, plain words, and familiar project terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone says they do not understand the current direction and needs a clearer explanation of the problem, context, and proposed work.
Why use it?
It helps when a technical explanation does not make sense to the reader. It changes the explanation's framing instead of repeating the same wording.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the aiwork plugin — 11 skills, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when someone says they do not understand the current direction and needs a clearer explanation of the problem, context, and proposed work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lttr/claude-marketplace/wait-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 lttr/claude-marketplace --skill wait-what
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lttr/claude-marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aiwork, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 2 hooks.

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 wait-what

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lttr/claude-marketplace/wait-what/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lttr/claude-marketplace/wait-what)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lttr/claude-marketplace/wait-what"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lttr/claude-marketplace/wait-what/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 wait-what

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lttr/claude-marketplace/wait-what"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lttr/claude-marketplace/wait-what.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 285 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 $0.00021 $0.00285
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00143
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 10d ago against content hash 990a409dc161, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wait-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 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.

plugins/aiwork/skills/wait-what/SKILL.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Wait — I don't follow where you've got to. That message didn't land. Re-pitch it.

  • Lead with the context I'm missing. What problem this solves, and where it sits in the work we're doing.
  • Write in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. Short sentences, one idea each, active voice, plain approved words. Expand every acronym on first use.
  • Use the project's canonical terms. If GLOSSARY.md exists (or CONTEXT-MAP.md points to per-area glossaries), take the terms from there and use them exactly. Otherwise use the terms already established in this conversation and in the codebase — no new coinages mid-explanation.
  • Explain the idea before any code. Show a snippet only when it is the shortest way to say the thing, and keep it to the few lines that carry the point.
  • Change the framing, don't repeat it louder. The first pitch already failed; a longer version of it fails too. Try a different angle — a concrete scenario, a before/after, a comparison to something already agreed.

Then stop and let me respond. Don't continue the work until I say the re-pitch landed.

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 · 16 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 990a409dc161

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wait-what is a skill published in the GitHub repository lttr/claude-marketplace (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 285 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 2026-08-31.

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