what-the

what-the is a skill for Claude Code from thedotmack/claude-mem. It costs 31 tokens per session (60 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for explaining technical subjects in plain English by covering who, what, where, why, and when.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when someone asks for a simple breakdown of a technical tool, process, or concept.
Why use it?
It helps turn difficult technical language into an explanation that newcomers can understand.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-mem plugin — 17 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when someone asks for a simple breakdown of a technical tool, process, or concept.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thedotmack/claude-mem/what-the
About the project

Claude-Mem, now presented as Grok Mem, records an agent's work, compresses it with AI, and brings relevant notes into later sessions so the agent can remember decisions and next steps. It is intended for persistent context across agent conversations and supports multiple coding-agent environments. The catalogue add-ons provide the workflows and integrations used to operate this memory system.

thedotmack/claude-mem · 93,544 stars · on GitHub · claude-mem.ai

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 thedotmack/claude-mem --skill what-the
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-mem, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills, 1 MCP server.

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 what-the

README.md
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Your own site
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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 what-the

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 60 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
  • Socket pass 21 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 21 Jun 2026
  • 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 $0.00031 $0.00060
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00030
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00012
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00006

Measured 10d ago against content hash 408a7fe8df05, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

what-the 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 10d 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/what-the/SKILL.md · 7 lines

What it actually says

that sounds mad technical. explain to me the who, what, where, why, and when of this

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. 10d ago First seen · 7 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A 408a7fe8df05

Subscribe to this mod's changes

what-the is a skill published in the GitHub repository thedotmack/claude-mem (93,544 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 60 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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