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explain-simply

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By dkarter/dotfiles (GitHub) · coding · 130 stars · scanned at commit 767c473

Explain a complex or high-impact technical issue in plain language using ASD-STE100 principles and Zinsser's simplicity, brevity, clarity, and humanity. Use when another workflow requires a developer-facing explanation before a major decision, or when explicitly asked to explain something simply.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'explain-simply' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'explain-simply' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named explain-simply already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/dkarter/dotfiles' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '767c473e46c482d97377e90a1ae604bdd96f38f3' -- 'agents/skills/explain-simply' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'agents/skills/explain-simply' ~/.agents/skills/'explain-simply' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'explain-simply' ~/.claude/skills/'explain-simply' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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