explain-simply SKILL.md skillA
explain-simply from federbenjamin/feder-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add federbenjamin/feder-skills/explain-simply@git:20261007.87f312aPins git:20261007.87f312a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- federbenjamin/feder-skills
- Path
skills/explain-simply/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261007.87f312a, committed Oct 7, 2026
- Size
- 1,204 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Re-explain something from the CURRENT conversation — a finding id (e.g. F7.2), a term, a decision, an acronym, or a paragraph you just wrote — in plain language for someone with zero context. Use when the user says "explain X simply", "what does that even mean", "eli5", "as if I don't know what you're talking about", "in plain terms / plain English", "break that down", or points at jargon or an open decision and wants it made understandable.
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-simply Explain the thing the user points at, from this conversation, to a smart reader with zero context. - Use plain words and short sentences. Define a term the first time you need it. - Say what the thing is, why it matters, and what follows from it. Stop there. - Use only facts from this conversation. When a needed fact was never settled, say so. - Add one everyday comparison or one small inline ASCII drawing only when the idea is hard to see without it. - When the thing is a choice the user must make, end with the options, each with one pro and one con, your pick first. - When you cannot tell which thing the user means, ask in one line.
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add federbenjamin/feder-skills/explain-simply@sha256:8898ec996411d529The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.87f312a, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fp7uu5z4ctn65cuh)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 7, 2026.
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 (1204 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
federbenjamin/feder-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-27 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fp7uu5z4ctn65cuh GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=federbenjamin/feder-skills/explain-simply GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8898ec996411d529ae0ef6d2a5d6c40eb37d5e6660d422adcd53532086ef555a
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.