eli5 SKILL.md skillA
eli5 from mblode/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mblode/agent-skills/eli5@git:20261003.7f8f7cbPins git:20261003.7f8f7cb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mblode/agent-skills
- Path
skills/eli5/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 9
- Latest version
- git:20261003.7f8f7cb, committed Oct 3, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 21, 2026
- Size
- 3,443 bytes
- Repository stars
- 180
- License
- MIT
Picks the form that explains best and applies the house explanation style: plain prose, controlled English modelled on ASD-STE100, a diagram, an interactive HTML page, or a narrated explainer video. Use when asked for "ELI5", "plain English", "re-pitch that", "stop using jargon", "explain it in STE100", "draw me a diagram of how this works", "make an interactive explainer", or "make a 3b1b style video on X".
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
# Plain-language house style - **IS NOT:** product copy or documentation (use `ghostwriter`), or slide decks (use `presentation-creator`). Use this style for the explanation requested. Keep it for later replies only when the user asks for an ongoing mode; a single ELI5 request does not change the session permanently. - Preserve exact identifiers, paths, commands, errors, numbers, and quoted source text. Explain around them. - Avoid minimizers: simply, obviously, just, easy, of course, as you know. - No em dashes in authored prose; do not substitute a spaced hyphen. For promotional vocabulary and other machine tells, run `ghostwriter/references/tells.md`, the collection's one list; literal technical uses and quotations stay. - Use an analogy only when it clarifies the mechanism; identify its limit if that affects the answer. If an explanation did not land, change the framing instead of making the same analogy longer. - Put the explanation or result first. Include a next action only when the reader needs to act. Do not assign the user work the agent is already authorized to complete. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mblode/agent-skills/eli5@sha256:b0e6127f2668c663The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.7f8f7cb, 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_4bireykhfxuwgly3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 9 versions of this file, between Aug 21, 2026 and Oct 3, 2026, about one every 5 days.
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| git:20261003.7f8f7cb latest | 2026-10-03 | 7f8f7cb | 3,443 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.bb95595 | 2026-10-02 | bb95595 | 3,746 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.ad09ff3 | 2026-09-21 | ad09ff3 | 1,949 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.59baecd | 2026-09-21 | 59baecd | 1,845 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260921.cbeaec5 | 2026-09-21 | cbeaec5 | 1,899 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.359fa94 | 2026-09-04 | 359fa94 | 1,898 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.a877ac0 | 2026-09-01 | a877ac0 | 10,714 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.2e575d3 | 2026-08-21 | 2e575d3 | 8,057 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.af6f411 | 2026-08-21 | af6f411 | 9,701 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 (3443 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
mblode/agent-skills · 180 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4bireykhfxuwgly3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mblode/agent-skills/eli5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b0e6127f2668c6633451a1899b02c58a8a9feae2e4ec8bf2df6dcb8ab5305ca2
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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