Explain a topic like I'm a 5 year old. Use when the user types /eli5 <topic> or asks for a dead-simple picture explainer of how something works.
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# eli5
Explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words.
Invoke the design skill for visual direction, then create the artifact — the purpose is comprehension, the genre a quick visual explainer. Where that skill is unavailable, keep the contrast readable and nothing load-bearing behind interaction.
Topic: $ARGUMENTS
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.6062505, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_35epmwszao6fbeaw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=doodledood/manifest-dev/eli5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/95e02a05cd6beb15c2f5daa6ca34ef9c10f4cad16772f4e035cdb7e59d370fde
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