eli5 SKILL.md skillA

eli5 from geiserx/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add geiserx/agent-skills/eli5@git:20261003.52a61a4

Pins git:20261003.52a61a4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
geiserx/agent-skills
Path
skills/eli5/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261003.52a61a4, committed Oct 3, 2026
First version recorded
Oct 3, 2026
Size
4,654 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
GPL-3.0

Explain work, a system or a situation to Sergio in plain words with real names, so he understands it on one read. Use when he asks to explain like a 5yo, says eli5, or says he does not understand what was done or where things stand.

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

# eli5

Sergio reads this when he has lost the thread. He wants to understand, not to be impressed. Simplify the telling, never the claims: every sentence stays true to the code, the calls and the messages, and the words get shorter, not the facts.

## The shape of the answer

Two layers, in this order.

1. **The short version, under 200 words.** The whole story: who is involved, what the goal is, what was done, where it stands, what is open. Written so that it stands alone if he reads nothing else.
2. **The detailed version.** The same story told fully, in the sections below, each under its own heading so he can stop at any point and still have a complete picture up to there.

Close with a `Summary` of three or four bullets: the state, the open decisions, and what is his to do.

## The sections of the detailed version

Write them in this order. Each section answers one question a person asks when they come back to work they half remember.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add geiserx/agent-skills/eli5@sha256:2ebd7029619d6b27

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261003.52a61a4, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_74rwymdpztnkl3hp.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_74rwymdpztnkl3hp)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 3, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261003.52a61a4 latest2026-10-03 52a61a4 4,654 BA view · diff
git:20261003.281d47d2026-10-03 281d47d 4,683 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4654 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

GitHub

geiserx/agent-skills · 4 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-14 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_74rwymdpztnkl3hp
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=geiserx/agent-skills/eli5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2ebd7029619d6b27433d28dddfc08c3609485abade8946bfbf85bf46dd417487

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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