grandma

grandma is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tykisgod/quick-question. It costs 18 tokens per session (392 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching aid that explains technical ideas through familiar everyday situations, such as cooking, shopping or queuing. It can explain anything from a code module to concepts such as MCP, ECS or pathfinding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain code, architecture decisions, algorithms and developer terminology in plain language, while relating the analogy back to the actual software.
Why use it?
It makes unfamiliar technical material easier to understand by connecting it to experiences people already know. This helps readers who find code-focused explanations too abstract or jargon-heavy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the qq plugin — 27 skills, 4 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/tykisgod/quick-question/grandma
Any agent
npx skills add tykisgod/quick-question --skill grandma
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tykisgod/quick-question

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install qq, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 4 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 grandma

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 392 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 $0.00018 $0.00392
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00196
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00039

Measured 5d ago against content hash 8649c45fbea5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grandma 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.

skills/grandma/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Respond in the user's preferred language (detect from their recent messages, or fall back to the language setting in CLAUDE.md).

Explain a technical concept, module, or design decision using everyday analogies that anyone — including a grandma or a 5-year-old — could understand.

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS — any technical concept (e.g., "ECS", "why does the task system use a push model", "what is MCP", "A* pathfinding algorithm")

Behavior

  1. Understand the topic: If it's a project module, quickly read design docs and core code to understand what it actually does
  2. Find an everyday life analogy that:
    • Uses a scenario everyone has experienced (cooking, queuing, moving house, school, grocery shopping...)
    • Covers the core mechanism, not just a surface similarity
    • If the concept has multiple layers, use different roles/stages within the SAME scenario — don't switch scenarios
  3. Explain the entire concept through the analogy:
    • Start with the scene: "Imagine you're at..."
    • Map each role and action in the scene to key parts of the technical concept
    • After the analogy, "translate" back in one sentence: "What we just called X is actually Y in the code"
  4. If there are common misconceptions, address them: "Many people think... but actually..."
  5. Do NOT:
    • Use technical jargon (unless the user is asking what a specific term means)
    • Show code
    • Say "simply put" followed by something not simple
    • Say "it's like in programming..." — the audience doesn't know programming, that's not an analogy
    • Be condescending ("this is basic", "you can think of it as")
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 · 29 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 8649c45fbea5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grandma is a skill published in the GitHub repository tykisgod/quick-question (11 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 392 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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