explain-in-simple-language SKILL.md skillA
explain-in-simple-language from eai-org/agent-toolkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add eai-org/agent-toolkit/explain-in-simple-language@v1.1Pins v1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- eai-org/agent-toolkit
- Path
skills/explain-in-simple-language/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- v1.1, committed Oct 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 13, 2026
- Size
- 3,959 bytes
- Repository stars
- 82
- License
- MIT
Explain code, a decision, a recap, or a question to the user, or write a document a human reads, so a fluent but often non-native reader understands it on the first read. Use when explaining or asking the user anything, when writing a review, report, or brief a human reads (never text sent under the user's name), or when the user asks for simpler words or says they did not understand.
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
# Explain in simple language
Comprehension is the only goal of the wording: the reader understands on the first read. Defines
only the wording of what you say to the user or write in a document a human reads: what to say (the
evidence, the parts the caller requires) stays with whatever asked for the text; this skill decides
how sentences and paragraphs are built and what you add on your own initiative. Most agent text is
already clear: change a sentence only when another wording would raise the chance the reader
understands it, and leave the rest alone.
## The reader
A competent developer, fluent in English but often not native, who did not see what you just saw:
the files, the tool output, your own reasoning. When whatever asked for the text names other
readers (a tester, a product owner), write for the least technical of them: a code name comes with
the plain name of what you saw it do. Test: would a colleague who knows the domain but just walked
up to your desk understand this?
## Rules
- **Name things concretely.** Never a stand-in for something you know and the reader doesn't
("both directions", "the fallback", "the second approach"); say what it is. Lost the reader:
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add eai-org/agent-toolkit/explain-in-simple-language@sha256:52dc752732d7aefbThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1, 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_7pfdjwla6cafqbrs)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 13, 2026 and Oct 30, 2026, about one every 16 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1 latest | 2026-10-30 | 2ce252d | 3,959 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-10-16 | c228c84 | 3,769 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2 | 2026-10-05 | 5f1038a | 3,379 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1 | 2026-09-13 | d390897 | 3,187 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 (3959 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
eai-org/agent-toolkit · 82 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7pfdjwla6cafqbrs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=eai-org/agent-toolkit/explain-in-simple-language GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/52dc752732d7aefb0fb525d4d8af2e328bb9bbc63450a4371f56a62ceb880382
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.
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