code-walkthrough

code-walkthrough is a skill for Claude Code from motlin/claude-code-plugins. It costs 42 tokens per session (724 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided HTML tour of a software codebase, with explanations beside highlighted source lines that follow as you scroll. It organizes the tour around how the program works rather than around folder order.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or update source-code tutorials, explain an entry point and execution path, and support review or onboarding.
Why use it?
It gives readers a structured way to understand unfamiliar code without searching through files in an arbitrary order.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the code-walkthrough plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or update source-code tutorials, explain an entry point and execution path, and support review or onboarding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/code-walkthrough
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 motlin/claude-code-plugins --skill code-walkthrough
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/motlin/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install code-walkthrough, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 code-walkthrough

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/code-walkthrough/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/code-walkthrough)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/code-walkthrough"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/code-walkthrough/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 code-walkthrough

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/code-walkthrough"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/code-walkthrough.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 724 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 $0.00042 $0.00724
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00290
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00145
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00072

Measured 12d ago against content hash ae191817962c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-walkthrough 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 12d 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/code-walkthrough/skills/code-walkthrough/SKILL.md · 35 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 35 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Walkthrough

Build a reading experience around the actual source: concise explanations on the left, sticky syntax-highlighted code on the right. Scrolling selects the corresponding lines. Use the bundled Astro components and pinned build dependencies; do not recreate the layout for each codebase. Keep the walkthrough specification in the target repository. Read authoring.md for the format and rebuild commands.

Choose the teaching order

Start with what the program does and its entry point, then follow a concrete execution path from coordination into algorithms and representation. Do not use directory order as the syllabus. Adapt depth and vocabulary to the reader; ask only for missing context that materially changes the tour.

Explain the current highlight before tracing where its dependencies come from. Use a short transition when a forward reference needs one. Keep each explanation attached to the lines it discusses; split sections when the relevant code is in another file.

Get to code quickly. Use descriptive headings, concrete names, and concise prose. Omit cute introductions, chapter-count marketing, and announcements of what the tutorial will teach. Explain unfamiliar language syntax where it appears. Keep complete source paths and line ranges visible.

The renderer embeds complete files. If adapting it to excerpts, showing at least half of a file means showing the entire file. Never present rewritten examples as real source. Optional interactive experiments should illuminate a particular algorithm; label models and simplifications, and keep them separate from the actual implementation.

Discuss, review, and revise

Treat reader questions as guidance for teaching order and missing explanations. When asked to revise the tutorial, answer in place and rebuild. When asked to discuss a design, answer in chat. Do not silently turn a question into a code change.

Investigate inconsistencies exposed by the discussion. Distinguish a confirmed bug from a design preference or an unfamiliar idiom. Trace state ownership: constructors and ordinary name references are not automatically problematic dependencies. Check outside writes and returned mutable storage before claiming an encapsulation problem.

Read the full file on GitHub · 35 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. 12d ago Changed ae191817962c
  2. 21d ago First seen · 35 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 904a17f93f35

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-walkthrough is a skill published in the GitHub repository motlin/claude-code-plugins (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 724 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-30.

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