explain

explain is a skill for Claude Code from zjshen14/opencli. It costs 22 tokens per session (110 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for explaining code, concepts, or files in clear language after reading the relevant material.

In plain words
What is it for?
Explaining a selected piece of code or a project file, with examples only when they improve understanding.
Why use it?
It turns unfamiliar implementation details into a concise account of what they do, how they work, and why they exist.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Explaining a selected piece of code or a project file, with examples only when they improve understanding.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zjshen14/opencli/explain
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 zjshen14/opencli --skill explain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zjshen14/opencli

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 110 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.
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 $0.00022 $0.00110
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00044
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00011

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 58b07fb8aff0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explain 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 1mo 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.

src/skills/builtin/explain/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Explain the following: $ARGUMENTS

Read the relevant files or code first if needed, then provide a clear explanation covering:

  • What it does (the "what")
  • How it works at a high level (the "how")
  • Why it exists or the problem it solves (the "why")

Keep it concise. Use code snippets only where they add clarity.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 15 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 58b07fb8aff0

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explain is a skill published in the GitHub repository zjshen14/opencli (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 110 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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