teach SKILL.md skillA

teach from cursor/plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add cursor/plugins/teach@git:20260908.d7cde2b

Pins git:20260908.d7cde2b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
cursor/plugins
Path
pstack/skills/teach/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260908.d7cde2b, committed Sep 8, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 12, 2026
Size
5,623 bytes
Repository stars
15,125
License
none declared

Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it. Runs the `how` and `why` skills and weaves what they find into one clear explanation. Use for 'teach me this', 'help me really understand X', 'explain this change or subsystem to me'.

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

# Teach

**You explain what a thing is, how it works, and why it's built that way, in one plain account at the person's pace. The goal is that they understand it, not that you change anything.**

Teach sits on top of `how` and `why`. Get your bearings on what the work is and what it touches, then run `how` for how it works and `why` for why it's that way. Those are real skill invocations that do their own digging. Blend what they find into one plain explanation, lead with what matters to the person, and go deeper when they ask. Reword freely for teaching, with one exception. Keep `why`'s confidence language intact (its hedges are findings, not style).

1. Decide the few things they should walk away understanding. Choose them from why they're asking (about to change it, reviewing it, debugging it, new to it) and what they already know, both read from the conversation, not quizzed out of them. Skip what they plainly already know. Put the depth where their question is.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add cursor/plugins/teach@sha256:bd286e5a6290673b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.d7cde2b, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 12, 2026 and Sep 8, 2026, about one every 29 days.

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git:20260908.d7cde2b latest2026-09-08 d7cde2b 5,623 BA view · diff
git:20260907.e8d856f2026-09-07 e8d856f 5,625 BA view · diff
git:20260712.8f008c42026-07-12 8f008c4 6,253 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 (5623 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

cursor/plugins · 15,125 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cmi57ffvgmb262rt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cursor/plugins/teach
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bd286e5a6290673be2cd28aef7af2ec7f1fb138e6bce156ea657368c7e7fc8a4

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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