how

how is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tellahq/opensession. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,531 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase guide for explaining how a subsystem works, how requests move through it, and where each part belongs. It can also assess whether the architecture is sound.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code walkthroughs, runtime-flow explanations, onboarding, and questions about module ownership or architecture.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand unfamiliar code before changing it, including which module or layer should own a responsibility.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/tellahq/opensession/how
Any agent
npx skills add tellahq/opensession --skill how
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tellahq/opensession

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 how

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tellahq/opensession/how.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tellahq/opensession/how)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tellahq/opensession/how"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tellahq/opensession/how.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,531 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 $0.00064 $0.01531
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00766
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00306
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00153

Measured yesterday against content hash 0c3cf2627fe4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

how 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • how — 86% identical, 25 lines differ
  • how — 86% identical, 25 lines differ
  • how — 78% identical, 36 lines differ
.agents/skills/pstack-suite/skills/how/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

How

Explore the codebase to answer "how does X work?" questions. Produce clear architectural explanations at the level of a senior engineer onboarding onto a subsystem. Enough to build a working mental model, not annotated source code.

Two modes:

  1. Explain (default). Explore the codebase and produce a clear explanation
  2. Critique. Explain first, then spawn multiple models to independently identify architectural issues

Explain Mode

Step 1. Understand the Question and Assess Complexity

Parse what the user is asking about:

  • "How does the rate limiter work?", a subsystem
  • "How do we handle billing for on-demand usage?", a feature flow
  • "How is the auth service structured?", an architectural overview
  • "Walk me through what happens when a user submits a form", a runtime trace

Identify the scope. If ambiguous, state your best-guess interpretation before exploring. Don't ask. Let the user redirect if you're off.

Assess complexity to decide the approach:

  • Simple (a single module, a small utility, a narrow question like "how does function X work"): skip explorer agents; the explainer explores and explains in a single pass. Go to Step 2b.
  • Complex (a subsystem spanning multiple files/services, a cross-cutting feature, a full architectural overview): spawn parallel explorer agents first, then hand off to the explainer. Go to Step 2a.

When in doubt, lean simple. You can always spawn explorers if the explainer hits a wall.

Step 2a. Explore (complex questions only)

Decompose the question into 2-4 parallel exploration angles, each a distinct slice of the subsystem so explorers don't duplicate work. Example split for "how does the rate limiter work?":

  • Explorer 1: data model and state management
  • Explorer 2: request path and enforcement
  • Explorer 3: configuration and metrics infrastructure

The right decomposition depends on the question. Use your judgment. Narrow questions: 2 explorers is fine. Broad subsystems: up to 4.

Discover the policy-gated Open Session session tools and spawn all explorers in parallel in ask mode. Begin each self-contained brief with /pstack. Omit model unless the current workspace preset provides a deliberate configured supporting model. Do not grant write or edit tools.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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.

  1. yesterday First seen · 120 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 0c3cf2627fe4

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how is a skill published in the GitHub repository tellahq/opensession (345 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,531 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 2026-09-03.

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