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.
npx agentmods add skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/explain-reportnpx skills add minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards --skill explain-reportgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guardsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/explain-report)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/explain-report"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/explain-report.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00069 | $0.00435 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00034 | $0.00217 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00087 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00044 |
Grade A, and why
explain-report 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 yesterday.
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.
What it actually says
Explain Report
Create a focused HTML artifact that helps the user understand and retain important project knowledge. Default to concise chat when an artifact would not add meaningful value.
Apply concisely's teaching guidance throughout the artifact.
Content
- Lead with the essential mental model, result, or decision.
- Focus on what helps the user understand the project and decide what to do next.
- Support claims with source files, tests, screenshots, logs, citations, or other material evidence.
- Separate verified facts from inference, uncertainty, and open questions.
- Put supporting depth after the main explanation or behind
<details>. - Adapt the structure and depth to the subject. Do not force fixed modes, sections, or finding counts.
Use a visual only when it makes an important relationship easier to understand. Choose the simplest useful form, such as a flow, comparison, timeline, hierarchy, or before-and-after view.
Artifact
Write one self-contained .html file with embedded CSS. Keep it readable without JavaScript, responsive, accessible, and concise at the top.
Store retained reports at:
~/.codex/artifacts/reports/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.html
Use /tmp for disposable or exploratory reports. Keep reports outside the repository unless the user asks otherwise.
Before closing, confirm the file exists, opens as HTML, and represents important evidence accurately. Then use concisely for the chat response: state the result, link the report, and mention any decision or residual uncertainty without repeating the report.
Avoid
- Do not use presentation as a substitute for investigation or verification.
- Do not create decorative dashboards or visuals that repeat the prose.
- Do not bury information that changes what the user should believe or do.
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.
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.
- yesterday Changed · +2 lines 7dd2cd47c25c
- 5d ago First seen · 40 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A f9ae148a08be
explain-report is a skill published in the GitHub repository minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards (39 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 435 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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