statistics-explainer

statistics-explainer is a skill for Claude Code from ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,139 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language guide to statistics such as percentage changes, relative risk, confidence intervals, medians, and index numbers. It keeps the original meaning while making the numbers easier to understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps rewrite statistics from studies, reports, or datasets for the public, and can adapt the explanation to a publication's audience and style.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion caused by statistical terms that readers may interpret incorrectly.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the autopunk-media-skills plugin — 187 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps rewrite statistics from studies, reports, or datasets for the public, and can adapt the explanation to a publication's audience and style.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills/statistics-explainer
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 ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills --skill statistics-explainer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install autopunk-media-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,139 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 $0.00042 $0.01139
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00114

Measured 10d ago against content hash e7fdd4dd9678, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

statistics-explainer 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.

skills/data-journalism/analysis/statistics-explainer/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Statistics Explainer

What This Skill Does

Rewrites a complex statistic — including percentage changes, relative risk, confidence intervals, medians, and index numbers — in plain language that a general audience can understand without sacrificing factual accuracy.

When To Use This Skill

  • A statistic in your draft is accurate but you suspect a general reader will misread or misunderstand it
  • You have received data containing terms like "relative risk," "odds ratio," "confidence interval," or "standard deviation" and need to explain them in copy
  • An editor or sub-editor has flagged a statistic as confusing
  • You want to check your own plain-language rewrite against a more rigorous version

What You Need To Provide

Required: The statistic as it appears in the source (exact wording or data point). The context — what the statistic is measuring and from what study, report, or dataset. Optional: The audience (general public, specialist readers, etc.); the publication register (tabloid, broadsheet, academic journal); any related comparison figure that might help contextualise it.

How the Assistant Approaches This

  1. Identifies the statistical concept being used and checks for common misinterpretation traps (e.g. relative vs absolute risk, percentage point vs percentage change).
  2. Rewrites the statistic using plain numbers and concrete comparisons — avoiding jargon, passive constructions, and ambiguous framing.
  3. Flags any cases where the plain-language version risks oversimplification, and suggests a brief accuracy note if needed.

Output Format

Two to three rewrite options, each one to three sentences. A brief note explaining the key misinterpretation risk in the original. Where relevant, a suggested accuracy caveat (one sentence) to include alongside the plain-language version. No tables or bullet lists in the output — the rewrites should read as they would appear in an article.

Quality Criteria

  • Every rewrite is factually equivalent to the original — no inflating or deflating the finding
  • No jargon introduced in the plain-language version
  • At least one concrete comparison or real-world anchor (e.g. "1 in 5," "the equivalent of filling Wembley Stadium twice")
  • The misinterpretation risk is named specifically, not generically
  • Accuracy note is included where genuine oversimplification risk exists

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 72 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A e7fdd4dd9678

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statistics-explainer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ur-grue/autopunk-media-skills (30 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,139 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.