eli5 is agent-read markdown (skill) from akillness/jeo-skills: Explain a topic, codebase, document, concept, or error at a specific audience's knowledge level and decision context. Use for ELI5, explain like I'm five, explain this to my manager, parent, child, partner, or team, break it down, dumb it down, make it understandable, or simplify it for a named age, grade, education level, job role, or relationship. This skill owns pure audience-adaptive explanation. Route requests that first require auditing or verifying a claim, change, fix, or test result to .
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.
What the file says
# Explain Like I Am
Turn a complex subject into an explanation calibrated to one real audience.
Preserve the truth, useful caveats, and the audience's dignity. The goal is not
merely shorter text. It is the right mental model, vocabulary, depth, framing,
and next decision for that reader.
This adaptation is based on DreambigOu/ELI5 at commit
`a766623b062331fdde53467001379b4ddf3acc2f`. See the pinned source and MIT notice
in [source and evaluation](references/source-and-evaluation.md).
## When to use this skill
- The user says `ELI5`, "explain like I'm five," "break this down," "dumb it
down," or "make this understandable."
- The explanation targets a named age, grade, education level, profession,
decision-maker, family member, colleague, or other audience.
- Code, an error, a document, or a technical concept needs a purpose-first
explanation for someone who will not benefit from the source's original
jargon.
- The same facts need a different frame for an engineer, manager, designer,
executive, student, parent, partner, child, or friend.
Do not use this skill for these neighboring jobs:
- Audit, review, check, or verify a change or claim and then explain the
…
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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eh2ub3mbxbhpkk5b
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=akillness/jeo-skills/eli5
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e4585f921086544a56f7a1f34fc773ad3b5d15d1c0b5b8c8b836ebf699dbd123
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