plain

A writing aid that rewrites dense or unfamiliar text in clear, everyday language while keeping its full meaning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify a previous answer, pasted text, a file, or a specific part of an explanation without turning it into a shorter summary.
Why use it?
It helps when an explanation is hard to follow because it uses specialist terms, compressed ideas, or unclear wording.

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/petekp/claude-code-setup/plain
Any agent
npx skills add petekp/claude-code-setup --skill plain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/petekp/claude-code-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,305 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00141 $0.01305
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.00652
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00261
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00130

Measured yesterday against content hash 1fc3be0f6f2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plain 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.

skills/plain/SKILL.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plain

Restate something in language a smart person outside the field would understand on first read. The user invokes this when a previous explanation was too dense to follow. Your job is translation, not summarization: keep the full meaning, change the delivery.

What to restate

  • No arguments: restate your own previous response in this conversation.
  • Pasted text or a file path: restate that content. Read the file first if given a path.
  • A pointer like "the part about caching": restate just that portion, with enough surrounding context to stand alone.

The audience

Write for a sharp, capable adult who doesn't live in this domain. Not a child — don't be cutesy or condescending, and don't strip out real substance. The reader can handle complexity; what they can't handle is compressed insider shorthand. The test: could they re-explain it to someone else after one read?

How to write it

Plain prose, no scaffolding. Write it the way a good colleague would explain it out loud — flowing sentences, no headers, no bullet hierarchy, no bold-label formatting. Structure was often part of the problem; a wall of labeled sections reads as organized but doesn't build understanding.

Explain the mechanism, not the label. Jargon usually names a mechanism. Instead of dropping the name, describe what actually happens. "Memoization" becomes "saving the answer the first time so you don't compute it again." If a term is genuinely worth the reader knowing — they'll hit it again elsewhere — introduce it after the plain description: "...this is what people mean by 'memoization'." Never the other way around.

One idea per sentence. Dense prose packs three moves into one sentence with subordinate clauses. Unpack them. Short sentences are not dumbed down; they're sequenced.

Use a concrete example or analogy when the idea is abstract. An analogy earns its place only if it maps accurately — a leaky analogy is worse than none. Prefer examples from the user's actual situation (their code, their project) over invented ones.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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. yesterday First seen · 62 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 1fc3be0f6f2b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plain is a skill published in the GitHub repository petekp/claude-code-setup (45 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 1,305 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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