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/ondrasek/cc-plugins/dotnet-explainnpx skills add ondrasek/cc-plugins --skill dotnet-explaingit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ondrasek/cc-pluginsWhat 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 | $0.00063 | $0.00406 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00032 | $0.00203 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00081 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00041 |
Grade A, and why
dotnet-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 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
.NET Explain
Read-only — does not modify any files.
Context Files
skills/shared/references/explain-pattern.md— shared answer format and behaviorskills/shared/references/methodology-framework.md— shared principles, hook architectureskills/dotnet-setup/references/methodology.md— .NET-specific dimensions, rationale, adaptation rulesskills/dotnet-setup/references/analysis-checklist.md— how projects are analyzed
Example Questions
"Why Roslyn analyzers over external tools?" → Dimension 2. Roslyn analyzers run during dotnet build, integrate with IDEs, controlled via .editorconfig. No separate step needed.
"What's the coverage threshold?" → Dimension 1. 90% default; 70% for new projects; legacy: start at current.
"Should I use all 9 dimensions?" → Principles: incremental adoption. Start with testing + linting, add incrementally.
"Why Directory.Build.props?" → .NET-Specific Patterns. Centralizes MSBuild properties, avoids duplication across .csproj files.
"How does nullable reference types fit?" → Dimension 3. <Nullable>enable</Nullable> + AnalysisLevel: latest-Recommended.
"How do I disable a check?" → Each check has a [check:*] comment marker. Delete the run_check block.
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 First seen · 33 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 459cbd1bc637
dotnet-explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrasek/cc-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 406 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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