explain SKILL.md skillA
explain from ramboz/jig is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ramboz/jig/explain@git:20260715.7d538eaPins git:20260715.7d538ea in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ramboz/jig
- Path
hosts/claude/skills/explain/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260715.7d538ea, committed Jul 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 22, 2026
- Size
- 20,167 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Explain jig vocabulary and artifacts in plain language. Three modes: term mode defines one lexicon term; artifact mode walks through a spec or ADR and its linked references; passage mode explains pasted jig output. Output is ephemeral (chat-only). Auto-triggers when you say explain this term, walk me through this spec, explain this ADR, what does this output mean, or explain this snippet; invoke explicitly with `/jig:explain`. Defers to any other installed skill whose description identifies it…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
> Spec 065 introduces this skill as jig's **on-demand explainer** — the third > consumer of the shipped lexicon (065-01). The barrier jig is lowering is > vocabulary: the artifacts are dense with opinionated jargon (SPIDR, ADR, > vertical slice, reconciliation, deviation log, DoR/AC/DoD, frontmatter) and > almost none of it is explained where the reader meets it. The hook (065-02) > surfaces one-line defs just-in-time; this skill is the **strong-handholding** > escalation — define a term in depth, or translate a whole dense spec/ADR into > plain language for a junior. > > Like `/jig:clarify`, `/jig:pr-review`, and `/jig:arch-review`, explain is a > **judgment skill** — it ships **no `.py` helper**. The only determinism it > needs (load the merged lexicon, read the named artifact, resolve the refs it > links) Claude runs inline via Read + the 065-01 loader. The plain-language > *quality* is judgment exercised by this prompt, not something a unit test can > assert — the same accepted shape as every judgment-only jig skill. ## What this skill does Translates jig's vocabulary and artifacts into plain language for a reader who …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ramboz/jig/explain@sha256:b62b9f0235bf2588The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260715.7d538ea, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3gzofozhebky3szr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 22, 2026 and Jul 15, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260715.7d538ea latest | 2026-07-15 | 7d538ea | 20,167 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260708.ff4191c | 2026-07-08 | ff4191c | 20,904 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260622.269c6b0 | 2026-06-22 | 269c6b0 | 20,871 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (20167 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ramboz/jig · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3gzofozhebky3szr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ramboz/jig/explain GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b62b9f0235bf25887f650ea315920b311145b58e6df302b46128661c605d4100
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