explaining-route-decisions

explaining-route-decisions is a skill for Claude Code from Nolane-x/forge-os. It costs 34 tokens per session (175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for explaining why a technique or service provider was chosen, rejected, blocked, or postponed. It also records constraints, uncertainty, and what is needed to proceed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document choices between approaches or providers, explain blocked work, and identify the exact information or action needed to unblock it.
Why use it?
It makes routing decisions easier for people to check and understand. It prevents hidden assumptions from being presented as certain facts.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the forgeos plugin — 196 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to document choices between approaches or providers, explain blocked work, and identify the exact information or action needed to unblock it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nolane-x/forge-os/explaining-route-decisions
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 Nolane-x/forge-os --skill explaining-route-decisions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Nolane-x/forge-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install forgeos, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 175 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 $0.00034 $0.00175
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00088
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00035
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00017

Measured 7d ago against content hash 252126f83f6f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explaining-route-decisions 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 7d 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.

skills-v2/kernel/explaining-route-decisions/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Explaining Route Decisions

Core principle

Summarize target outcomes and hard constraints first. Expose uncertainty and the exact action required to unblock execution. The runtime owns deterministic scope, coverage, policy, and evidence checks; the agent owns only the judgment that cannot be reduced safely to code.

Do not activate when

  • no route has been compiled
  • raw internal scoring would expose secrets or private content
Files

What ships with it

9 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 23 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 252126f83f6f

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explaining-route-decisions is a skill published in the GitHub repository Nolane-x/forge-os (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 175 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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