ase-meta-eli5

ase-meta-eli5 is a skill for Claude Code from rse/ase. It costs 63 tokens per session (924 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for explaining topics in very simple, child-friendly language, sometimes using facts found on the web.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain a topic, add an everyday analogy, and describe why it matters in an ELI5 style.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand unfamiliar or difficult subjects without technical words or assumed background knowledge.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the ase plugin — 52 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to explain a topic, add an everyday analogy, and describe why it matters in an ELI5 style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rse/ase/ase-meta-eli5
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 rse/ase --skill ase-meta-eli5
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rse/ase

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ase, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 52 skills, 10 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 924 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.00924
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00462
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00092

Measured 9d ago against content hash 34b70369401b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ase-meta-eli5 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 9d 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.

plugin/skills/ase-meta-eli5/SKILL.md · 117 lines

What it actually says

@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

$ARGUMENTS

  1. Set (set to empty).

  2. Use the ase-meta-search skill in a sub-agent to gather facts about the : call the tool...

    Agent( description: "Query Web Search Service", subagent_type: "ase:ase-meta-search", prompt: "Search the Internet/Web and gather facts about the following topic: <topic/>", run_in_background: false )

    ...and store the returned facts in .

    Set (set facts to empty), so the explanation below falls back to model knowledge, and output the following :

  3. Explain the in "Explain Like I'm 5" (ELI5) style: use simple, jargon-free wording a five-year-old child could understand -- short sentences, everyday words, and familiar images. Do not use technical terms without immediately putting them into child-friendly words.

    For this, first, explain WHAT the topic is and store it in . Second, give an ANALOGY by comparing the topic to something from the everyday life of a child and store this in . Third, explain WHY the topic matters and store this in .

    Ensure that each of , , and is a very brief and concise single text paragraph.

    Output the result with the following :

    WHAT: .

    ANALOGY: .

    WHY: .

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 9d ago First seen · 117 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 34b70369401b

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ase-meta-eli5 is a skill published in the GitHub repository rse/ase (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 924 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 2026-08-30.