wait-what

wait-what is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor from mamahoos/dot-files. It costs 18 tokens per session (100 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of wait-what, MIT.

A short reset instruction for cases where the previous explanation or result was unclear. It asks for the context and next explanation in simpler technical language.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to request a clearer re-explanation using plain language and the project's established terms.
Why use it?
It helps when the current conversation has become difficult to follow or the last response did not answer the need clearly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

Written for Claude Code and Codex and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to request a clearer re-explanation using plain language and the project's established terms.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mamahoos/dot-files/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 mamahoos/dot-files --skill wait-what
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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/mamahoos/dot-files/wait-what/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/wait-what)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/wait-what"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/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/mamahoos/dot-files/wait-what"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mamahoos/dot-files/wait-what.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 100 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00100
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00050
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00010

Measured 6d ago against content hash e3f44e3ccbc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to wait-what — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

home/.cursor/skills/wait-what/SKILL.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

Wait, I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use the ubiquitous language from CONTEXT.md (follow CONTEXT-MAP.md to the right one if the repo has more than one).

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. 6d ago First seen · 8 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A e3f44e3ccbc0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wait-what is a skill published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 100 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to wait-what, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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