explain

explain is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles. It costs 57 tokens per session (622 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A skill for explaining unfamiliar services, systems, completed work, plans, ambiguities, and complicated processes in the current session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a service, clarify a plan, describe completed autonomous work, or unpack a complex flow.
Why use it?
It helps when the reasoning or effects of work are difficult to follow or important details were handled without explanation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/explain
Any agent
npx skills add Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles --skill explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 explain

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/explain.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/explain)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nathan-schwartz/dotfiles/explain.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 622 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00057 $0.00622
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00124
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00062

Measured 3d ago against content hash 265b1c129de4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

claude/.claude/skills/explain/SKILL.md · 34 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 34 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 265b1c129de4

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explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nathan-Schwartz/dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed 23d ago), with no licence file. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 622 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 2026-08-31.

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