harnessprotocol/harness-kit · plugins/explain/skills/explain/SKILL.md

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explain is agent-read markdown (skill) from harnessprotocol/harness-kit: Use when user invokes /explain with a file path, directory path, function/class name, or natural language concept. Also triggers on "explain this", "how does X work", "walk me through". Produces a structured, layered explanation of what the code does, how it connects, and where to start if you need to change it. Do NOT use when the user wants to trace data flow through a pipeline — use /lineage instead..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add harnessprotocol/harness-kit/explain@git:20260316.44e1f9c
Exact content
mdr add harnessprotocol/harness-kit/explain@sha256:c2bf0b98b232c475

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260316.44e1f9c latest2026-03-16 44e1f9c 9,819 BA view · diff
git:20260310.2fcaf7f2026-03-10 2fcaf7f 9,824 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (9819 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

harnessprotocol/harness-kit · 10 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7qv3idbqk7f3sv7s
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=harnessprotocol/harness-kit/explain
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c2bf0b98b232c4750f35f39cd6904326554c95068b3d6612e479cf792fe2f05e

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