illustrate

92 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

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

Visual explainer for a concept or codebase topic, one idea per diagram, grounded in the real artifact and written as a markdown record plus an interactive page (markdown only on request). Presets: newcomer (default) and zero-knowledge (ELI5). Options: an STE register, and a video view too when explainer-video is installed. Use when the user says 'ELI5', 'explain like I'm five', 'illustrate this', 'picture explainer', 'show me a diagram of this', 'explain this visually' or 'explainer video'. A p…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 7 places.

plugins/education/skills/illustrate/SKILL.md, line 99"${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/build-explainer.mjs" \
plugins/education/skills/illustrate/SKILL.md, line 132node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/view-settings.mjs" resolve --lane education:illustrate --option "<option>"
plugins/education/skills/illustrate/scripts/build-explainer.test.sh, line 25import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";

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plugins/education/skills/illustrate/scripts/build-explainer.test.sh, line 425const run = (args, input) => spawnSync(process.execPath, [builderPath, ...args], { input, encoding: "utf8" });
plugins/education/lib/view-settings.mjs, line 26import { execFileSync, spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
plugins/education/lib/view-settings.mjs, line 72return execFileSync("git", ["-C", root, ...args], { encoding: "utf8", stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] });
plugins/education/lib/view-settings.mjs, line 150const out = spawnSync("bash", [join(HERE, "state-key.sh"), "--root", root ?? process.cwd()], { encoding: "utf8" });

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

plugins/education/lib/view-runtime.js, line 316fetch(`${origin}/api/token`, { cache: "no-store", credentials: "omit" })
plugins/education/lib/view-runtime.js, line 336fetch(`${session.origin}/api/action`, {

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'illustrate' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'illustrate' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named illustrate 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '677e7988f432dacb5e2d4df2b124f96da8e8f9f3' -- 'plugins/education/skills/illustrate' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/education/skills/illustrate' ~/.agents/skills/'illustrate' && 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/'illustrate' ~/.claude/skills/'illustrate' (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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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`677e798`	92
2026-11-07	`81c7244`	92