Explain Agent Skill

Explain content or any concept inside it at the depth the user needs — ELI5, practitioner level, or expert deep-dive — with a jargon glossary and context the original assumes. Use when the user says "explain this", "what does X mean here", "break this down", "I don't understand this part", or shares content and asks how something in it works.

447 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

101

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector --skill explain

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

explain

Make the content understandable without dumbing it down dishonestly.

Workflow

Get the text (via fetch-content skill script if it's a URL, else web fetch or paste).
Pick the depth — from the user's request, or ask one short question if genuinely unclear:
ELI5 — analogies, zero jargon, the core mechanism only
Practitioner — assumes general technical literacy, focuses on how it works and what to do with it
Deep dive — mechanisms, edge cases, history, competing views
Explain, structured as:
The one-sentence version first
The mechanism: how it actually works, step by step
Glossary: every jargon term the content uses without defining, one line each
What the content assumes you know — the missing prerequisites that made it confusing
Where the content's own explanation is wrong or oversimplified, if it is — flag it, don't repeat it

Rules

Explaining ≠ endorsing. If the content's claim is contested, present the explanation *and* note the contest ("the video asserts X; the standard view is Y").
Analogies must survive scrutiny — say where the analogy breaks.
If the user points at a specific segment ("the part at 12:30", "section 3"), explain that segment in the context of the whole, not in isolation.
Don't pad: a concept that takes three sentences gets three sentences.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take serhiikorniienko/explain from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.