Skill All skills & plugins / Claude Code official plugins
explanatory-output-style
Adds educational insights about implementation choices and codebase patterns (mimics the deprecated Explanatory output style)
- Type
- Plugin by Anthropic
- Catalog
- Claude Code official plugins
- Source
- anthropics/claude-plugins-official/plugins/explanatory-output-style (5 files scanned)
- Install and details
- Agent Skills Index entry
- License
- Apache-2.0 (LICENSE file)
- Signals
- HooksBundled scripts
Pre-approved tools
No allowed-tools or tools list in its SKILL.md, command or agent files, so the agent asks before using tools as usual.
Hooks
Hooks run automatically on these agent events, without you invoking the skill: SessionStart.
| Event | Matcher | Runs |
|---|---|---|
| SessionStart | all | bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks-handlers/session-start.sh" |
MCP servers and apps
None.
Bundled code
1 code file (Shell):
Network calls
No HTTP or socket call pattern found in the code.
Starts other programs
No subprocess, exec or eval pattern found.
Credentials referenced
No key, token or secret environment variable found in code or MCP config.
Static scan of commit 41f619d on 2026-10-27. Signals are patterns found in the files, not a verdict: a network call can be the whole point of a skill. Read the linked lines before you decide. How the scan works.