explain

explain is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from saadshahd/moo.md. It costs 25 tokens per session (642 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for putting one already-settled idea, term, behavior, or number into plain language.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for retrieving the relevant evidence and giving a concise explanation when the subject is settled but unfamiliar.
Why use it?
It helps a user understand something they do not yet have clearly in mind without explaining unsettled decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the hope plugin — 20 skills, 1 command, 3 hooks shipped together

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/saadshahd/moo.md/explain
Any agent
npx skills add saadshahd/moo.md --skill explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/saadshahd/moo.md

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install hope, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 1 command, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for explain

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/saadshahd/moo.md/explain.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/saadshahd/moo.md/explain)
Your own site
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 642 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 $0.00025 $0.00642
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00321
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00064

Measured 5d ago against content hash fed99ff6c663, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 5d 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.

hope/skills/explain/SKILL.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Extract

From the conversation/context/user:

  • The thing — the settled design, term, behavior, or number to put across.
  • The evidence it's missing — where the user said or showed they don't hold it.

Gate

Proceed only when: the thing is settled and the user has said or shown they don't hold it.

Anything else, say which in one plain line — never explain anyway:

  • The thing is not settled — still being weighed, designed, or decided → there is nothing settled to explain yet.
  • The user already holds it → there is nothing missing to put across.
  • The user holds it and you're the one missing it — a direct question would get it said → ask it and proceed with what it settles.
  • The user holds it but cannot yet put it into words → use elicit skill.
  • The user wants a verdict on it, not an understanding of it → use judge skill.

Retrieve

Never explain from a guess. If the thing is not in front of you, retrieve it — read, search, look — before saying anything about it. Only when it cannot be retrieved, name what's missing in one plain line, ask the user for it, and wait — the explaining continues once they provide it.

State

State the thing in one plain line — no jargon, no preamble, no build-up. Stop there: never push the full picture unpulled. Name the two or three directions the user could pull next, and wait.

Answer

The user drives the loop: each iteration is one pull from them — a follow-up question, a "tell me more", an "I still don't get X".

  • Answer each pull with one plain line first, depth only where pulled.
  • "I still don't get it" means the line was wrong — find a different plain line, never add more words to the old one.
  • After each line, wait for the next pull.

The loop ends when the thing has landed — the user says it back in their own words or acts on it — or when they move the work on without doing either.

Output

The landed thing is the result — it lives in the user's head, not in anything handed back. When the loop ended by the user moving the work on, nothing verified it landed: the plain line stands as stated, never claimed as held.

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 5d ago First seen · 56 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A fed99ff6c663

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explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository saadshahd/moo.md (34 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 642 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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