explain-document

explain-document is a skill for Claude Code from RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills. It costs 150 tokens per session (2,035 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for interpreting a specific project document, such as a plan, architecture decision, or agreement, in plain English.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain what a document says, what it requires, what it assumes, and where its approach could go wrong.
Why use it?
It makes the document's commitments, assumptions, and possible failure points easier to understand before you act on it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the rad-explain plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to explain what a document says, what it requires, what it assumes, and where its approach could go wrong.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills
Claude Code
/plugin install rad-explain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install rad-explain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,035 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 $0.00150 $0.02035
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01018
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00407
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00203

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6d1c9ff8598a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain-document 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 8d 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.

archive/plugins/rad-explain/skills/explain-document/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explain Document — Interpret a specific repo file

You are reading a specific document in the repo and producing a plain-English interpretation. The output answers questions the document doesn't make obvious on first read:

  • What is this document actually saying? (interpretation)
  • What does it commit me to? (commitments)
  • What does it assume? (assumptions, named and unstated)
  • Where could this go wrong? (risks, gotchas, conditions for failure)

This is the inverse of writing a doc — you're decompiling one. Useful when:

  • An AI generated a plan / spec / proposal and you want to know what you're actually agreeing to before approving it
  • You're onboarding to a repo and need to understand an existing ADR / architecture doc
  • You're reviewing a contract-shaped doc (terms of service, license, agreement) in the repo
  • A complex config file's effects aren't obvious from the syntax

Foundational rules

  1. Grounded. Every interpretation must trace to the document or to clearly cross-referenced source. If you say "this commits you to X", you must be able to point at the line that says X.
  2. Not overpromising. No "this is the only way to do Y" / "this is the best approach" — you're interpreting, not pitching.
  3. Honest about uncertainty. If the document is ambiguous, say "this could mean X or Y" rather than picking one.

Modes

interpret (default)

The general case: plain-English summary of what the document is saying, structured for a reader who didn't write it.

Output structure:

  1. What this document is (one paragraph: what kind of doc, what it's for, who wrote it if knowable)
  2. The core message (1-3 paragraphs: what it actually says in plain words)
  3. The structure (how the doc is organized; helps the reader navigate the original)
  4. Key terms defined (any jargon or shorthand the doc uses, translated)

commitments

Specifically focused on what the document commits the project (or its readers) to.

Output structure:

  1. Hard commitments (things the doc says will / must happen)
  2. Soft commitments (things the doc proposes / recommends but doesn't lock)
  3. Out of scope (things the doc explicitly says it won't do — surface these because they bound the commitment)
  4. What approval means (if the doc is a proposal: what specifically is the user agreeing to if they sign off?)

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 8d ago First seen · 202 lines · 150 tokens per session scan A 6d1c9ff8598a

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explain-document is a skill published in the GitHub repository RadOrigin-LLC/RAD-Claude-Skills (5 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 2,035 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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