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explain

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Fine to try.

By melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 30 stars · scanned at commit 677e798

Plain-language explanation of a concept, code, error, architecture or the previous assistant response: a concrete analogy and no jargon first, higher altitude (high-school, then peer level) only on request. Use when the user says 'I don't understand this', 'I don't get it', 'what does this actually do', 'what does this mean', 'explain simply' or 'rephrase that'; with no argument it explains the previous assistant response. A faithful restructure is adhd:clarify (if installed), a diagram or ELI5…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'explain' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'explain' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named explain already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '677e7988f432dacb5e2d4df2b124f96da8e8f9f3' -- 'plugins/education/skills/explain' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/education/skills/explain' ~/.agents/skills/'explain' && 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' ~/.claude/skills/'explain' (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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