explain

explain is a skill for Claude Code from SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector. It costs 80 tokens per session (411 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An explanation tool that makes a piece of content or an unfamiliar idea understandable at the depth the reader needs. It can add context, define technical terms, and point out oversimplifications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain content at a beginner, practitioner, or expert level, including a glossary and the missing context behind it.
Why use it?
It helps when the original material assumes background knowledge or uses jargon without explaining it.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the bullshit-detector plugin — 7 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to explain content at a beginner, practitioner, or expert level, including a glossary and the missing context behind it.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/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 SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector --skill explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install bullshit-detector, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 1 agent.

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/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/explain/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/explain)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/explain/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for explain

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/serhiikorniienko/bullshit-detector/explain.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 411 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 $0.00080 $0.00411
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00041

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9426ce012d6c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 12d 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.

skills/analysis/explain/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

explain

Make the content understandable without dumbing it down dishonestly.

Workflow

  1. Get the text (via fetch-content skill script if it's a URL, else web fetch or paste).
  2. Pick the depth — from the user's request, or ask one short question if genuinely unclear:
    • ELI5 — analogies, zero jargon, the core mechanism only
    • Practitioner — assumes general technical literacy, focuses on how it works and what to do with it
    • Deep dive — mechanisms, edge cases, history, competing views
  3. Explain, structured as:
    • The one-sentence version first
    • The mechanism: how it actually works, step by step
    • Glossary: every jargon term the content uses without defining, one line each
    • What the content assumes you know — the missing prerequisites that made it confusing
    • Where the content's own explanation is wrong or oversimplified, if it is — flag it, don't repeat it

Rules

  • Explaining ≠ endorsing. If the content's claim is contested, present the explanation and note the contest ("the video asserts X; the standard view is Y").
  • Analogies must survive scrutiny — say where the analogy breaks.
  • If the user points at a specific segment ("the part at 12:30", "section 3"), explain that segment in the context of the whole, not in isolation.
  • Don't pad: a concept that takes three sentences gets three sentences.
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. 12d ago First seen · 30 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 9426ce012d6c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector (142 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 411 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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