Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to vvedantb/eva. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vvedantb/eva/main/.claude/skills/how/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vvedantb/evaWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vvedantb/eva/how)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vvedantb/eva/how"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vvedantb/eva/how.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00028 | $0.01639 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00014 | $0.00820 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00328 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00164 |
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 3d 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.
This is a copy
100% identical to how — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 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 so much that it reads like annotated source code.
Two modes:
- Explain (default) — explore the codebase and produce a clear explanation
- 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. They might say:
- "How does message virtualization 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 sends a message" — a runtime trace
Identify the scope. If it's ambiguous, make your best guess and state your interpretation before exploring. Don't ask — explore and 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 entirely. The explainer agent explores and explains in a single pass. Go directly 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 toward the simple path — 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 angle should cover a distinct slice of the subsystem so the explorers aren't duplicating work. For example, if the question is "how does message virtualization work?", you might split into:
- Explorer 1: the data model and state management
- Explorer 2: the rendering pipeline and DOM interaction
- Explorer 3: the scroll/measurement infrastructure
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.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 145 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 2529921f47ee
how is a skill published in the GitHub repository vvedantb/eva (101 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,639 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to how, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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