explain-it SKILL.md skillA
explain-it from sergeyklay/.agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/explain-it@v2.1Pins v2.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sergeyklay/.agents
- Path
.agents/skills/explain-it/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- v2.1, committed Sep 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 23, 2026
- Size
- 17,196 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- Apache-2.0
Explain technical concepts, mechanisms, and systems to a technically fluent reader who is unfamiliar with the specific topic. Use when asked to explain how something works, walk through an algorithm or protocol, write a deep-dive or onboarding article, answer 'what is X', 'why does X behave this way', 'how does X work', 'break down X', or when synthesising findings from research into a written explanation. Also use when the reader will decide, review or approve rather than build, and asks what…
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
# Explaining Technical Concepts Construct understanding, do not transfer information. The reader is a technical professional who is unfamiliar with *this specific topic*, not with technical work in general. They can handle complexity. They have not encountered this particular thing yet. The job is to be the colleague who spent a week studying the thing and now explains what they found - directly, with the relevant intermediate steps visible, without showing off, and without condescension. ## The Two Non-Negotiables Two rules apply to every output produced under this skill. Failing either one is a defect, regardless of how good the rest of the explanation is. ### Language rule Always respond in the language the question was asked in. Chinese question → Chinese response. English → English. Russian → Russian. No exceptions, no mixing. Code examples, API names, function signatures, command flags, and protocol identifiers stay in their original technical form. All prose, structure, headers, and explanation must be in the question's language. ### Honesty rule …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sergeyklay/.agents/explain-it@sha256:fac6048dce09a40fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2.1, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Apr 23, 2026 and Sep 6, 2026, about one every 27 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v2.1 latest | 2026-09-06 | 371110d | 17,196 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1 | 2026-09-02 | 77d0686 | 21,746 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.1 | 2026-08-26 | 43cb7a4 | 21,759 B | A | view · diff |
| v2.0 | 2026-06-16 | 19a165c | 17,900 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-23 | 2f9a002 | 11,160 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0 | 2026-04-23 | de23ec6 | 11,170 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 (17196 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
sergeyklay/.agents · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ee7f5ixmbn5gujop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sergeyklay/.agents/explain-it GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fac6048dce09a40f48bca85839b34cacfe9ad1a2cce97e9a3b17cbdc08860ddd
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.