xz-eli5

xz-eli5 is a skill for Claude Code from Xuzan9396/plugin_claude. It costs 192 tokens per session (2,246 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A helper for explaining topics, code, concepts, and error messages in language suited to a specific audience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify difficult subjects, explain errors to non-technical people, or tailor an explanation for a manager, product person, beginner, or family member.
Why use it?
It removes the need to rewrite technical explanations for people with different levels of understanding.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Part of the xz-planning plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent 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/xuzan9396/plugin_claude/xz-eli5
Any agent
npx skills add Xuzan9396/plugin_claude --skill xz-eli5
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Xuzan9396/plugin_claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install xz-planning, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent.

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 xz-eli5

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xuzan9396/plugin_claude/xz-eli5.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xuzan9396/plugin_claude/xz-eli5)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/xuzan9396/plugin_claude/xz-eli5"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xuzan9396/plugin_claude/xz-eli5.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 192 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,246 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00192 $0.02246
Opus 5 $0.00096 $0.01123
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00449
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00225

Measured 6d ago against content hash 49bd339615f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

xz-eli5 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 6d 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.

plugins/planning/skills/xz-eli5/SKILL.md · 137 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago First seen · 137 lines · 192 tokens per session scan A 49bd339615f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

xz-eli5 is a skill published in the GitHub repository Xuzan9396/plugin_claude (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), with no licence file. It adds 192 tokens to every session and 2,246 once invoked, about $0.0010 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 2026-08-31.

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