nvim-lua-explain

nvim-lua-explain is a skill for Claude Code from ondrasek/cc-plugins. It costs 69 tokens per session (460 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only guide to the quality checks used for Neovim plugins and tools written in Lua. Neovim is a text editor, and Lua is the programming language used by these checks and plugins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It answers questions about formatting, linting, test coverage, security checks, quality gates, and hooks in Neovim Lua projects.
Why use it?
It explains why particular tools, rules, thresholds, and automated checks are used instead of leaving their decisions unexplained. It also clarifies how Lua tests and coverage are handled.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the blueprint plugin — 16 skills shipped together

Good fit It answers questions about formatting, linting, test coverage, security checks, quality gates, and hooks in Neovim Lua projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ondrasek/cc-plugins/nvim-lua-explain
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 ondrasek/cc-plugins --skill nvim-lua-explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ondrasek/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install blueprint, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 460 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 $0.00069 $0.00460
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00184
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00092
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00046

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c6eeb045f0bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nvim-lua-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 1mo 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/blueprint/skills/nvim-lua-explain/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Neovim Lua Explain

Read-only — does not modify any files.

Context Files

  • skills/shared/references/explain-pattern.md — shared answer format and behavior
  • skills/shared/references/methodology-framework.md — shared principles, hook architecture
  • skills/nvim-lua-setup/references/methodology.md — Neovim Lua-specific dimensions, rationale, adaptation rules
  • skills/nvim-lua-setup/references/analysis-checklist.md — how projects are analyzed

Example Questions

"Why selene instead of luacheck?" → Dimension 2. Selene is actively maintained, supports custom std libraries for Neovim globals, better error messages, community standard.

"What's the coverage threshold?" → Dimension 1. 75% default; 50% new; 80% library. Lua coverage tooling (luacov) is less mature.

"Why StyLua for formatting?" → Dimension 2. Fast (written in Rust), opinionated, supports LuaJIT syntax, widely adopted in Neovim ecosystem.

"Why is security analysis limited?" → Dimension 4. No Lua equivalent of bandit/cargo-audit. Uses selene rules + grep patterns.

"How does testing work with Neovim?" → Dimension 1. Test framework detection (plenary, mini.test, busted), headless Neovim execution, minimal_init.lua.

"Why LuaJIT and not Lua 5.4?" → Neovim Lua-Specific Patterns. Neovim embeds LuaJIT (Lua 5.1). All tools must target LuaJIT.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A c6eeb045f0bc

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nvim-lua-explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository ondrasek/cc-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 460 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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