An explanation tool that creates a zoomable HTML map of a repository, directory, feature, function, or other concept, including data flow, sketches, questions, and sources.

Use it to explain how a codebase or feature works, trace data flow, study a function, and find further reading.

It gives learners and teammates a visual way to understand unfamiliar code or ideas instead of reading disconnected files.

How shortcuts/dotfiles configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to shortcuts/dotfiles. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shortcuts/dotfiles/main/.claude/skills/explain/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shortcuts/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shortcuts/dotfiles/explain/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/shortcuts/dotfiles/explain)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shortcuts/dotfiles/explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shortcuts/dotfiles/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shortcuts/dotfiles/explain"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shortcuts/dotfiles/explain.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 7,383 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00045	$0.07383
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.02953
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.01477
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00738

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3ca357801950, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 7 executable files (check.py, obsidian.py, render.mjs, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

`curl -L` it into the scratchpad and `Read` it. A publisher blocks the fetch: cite the

.claude/skills/explain/SKILL.md · 496 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

11 files 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.

7d ago First seen · 496 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 3ca357801950

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository shortcuts/dotfiles (18 stars, last pushed today), with no licence file. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 7,383 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-30.

Claude Code Learning and teaching Writing and docs fish-shell ghostty neovim tmux-conf

explain next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
explainshortcuts/dotfiles	Skill	18	today	none	A	45	Claude Code
documentation-sitefmind/dot	Skill	13	2d ago	MIT	A	23	Claude Code, Codex
google-developerfmind/dot	Skill	13	2d ago	MIT	A	22	Claude Code, Codex
course-developmentfmind/dot	Skill	13	2d ago	MIT	A	15	Claude Code, Codex
interactive-concept-tutormagic3007/dotfiles	Skill	11	3d ago	MIT	A	110	Claude Code, Codex
course-developmentfmind/dotfiles	Skill	4	2mo ago	MIT	A	28	Claude Code, Codex
scientific-slidesmagic3007/dotfiles	Skill	11	3d ago	MIT	A	65	Claude Code

dotfiles: Skill for Claude Code

Borrowing it

Wrote this? Show the measurements

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Makes network callslowCapability

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

What ships with it

What this file has done since we first saw it

explain compared with skills from other repositories