Use when the person wants to understand a concept or how something works today. Never plans.
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
Finish when the person could teach it back. Ideas for what to build belong in [`options`](../options/SKILL.md).
## Inline first
Answer small questions in the conversation. Offer an HTML explainer only when the concept is big enough that the person would want to come back to it or share it, or when they ask for one.
## Gather facts before teaching
Read the code yourself for small questions. For a larger trace, give a fresh-context subagent one question to answer with the `gather-evidence` skill, for example "how does a message travel from the API to the provider, with file references". Give the subagent just that question, and interpret what comes back yourself.
## The explainer
Render it with the [`page`](../page/SKILL.md) house standard. Save it under `explainers/` in the work's bundle and add it to the brief's "Related" list. With no brief yet, it gets a bundle of its own.
Sections, in order:
1. Title and a one-paragraph gist
2. How it works now, told as a story
3. One concrete walkthrough: a real request or record from start to finish
4. Diagrams: data flow, states, or sequence, whichever carries the idea
5. Glossary
6. Common misconceptions
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.17234b5, 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.
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 (1977 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
dcouple/pane · 603 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_crjaryb4web7itgn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dcouple/pane/explain
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1bd77d88b69ca0eb4c6bfbff42ab54dd3da35b3256c8e41c94c3ed6bf77fd2b6
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dcouple/pane · main/src/services/paneChatBundle/skills/discussion/SKILL.md · Have an interactive discussion about a topic, approach, feature, or bug without making code changes. Researches the…
dcouple/pane · main/src/services/paneChatBundle/skills/eli5/SKILL.md · Teach an unfamiliar topic from first principles with a picture-first HTML explanation, published to the workspace's…
dcouple/pane · main/src/services/paneChatBundle/skills/excalidraw-pr-diagrams/SKILL.md · Draw Excalidraw diagrams that make a visual argument, such as a pull request's before/after visual overview, an…
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gkaria/vibe-learn · adapters/cursor/skills/explain/SKILL.md · Guided code tour of a file or subsystem this session touched — entry point, the load-bearing pieces, the edges, and…
gkaria/vibe-learn · adapters/copilot-cli/skills/explain/SKILL.md · Guided code tour of a file or subsystem this session touched — entry point, the load-bearing pieces, the edges, and…
anantys-oss/koan · koan/skills/core/explain/SKILL.md · Explain a PR's intent and changes in plain language (ex: /explain https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/42)
jantichy/claude · skills/explain/SKILL.md · Skill se použije, když uživatel zadá "/explain" (volitelně s tím, co vysvětlit), nebo napíše, že nerozumí tomu, co mu…
saadshahd/moo.md · hope/skills/explain/SKILL.md · Show one settled thing so the user holds it. Use when the user does not hold something already settled.
