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…
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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
…
The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0, 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.
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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