explain SKILL.md skillA

explain from anantys-oss/koan is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add anantys-oss/koan/explain@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: anantys-oss/koan
Path: koan/skills/core/explain/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: v1.0.0, committed Sep 17, 2026
First version recorded: Jun 4, 2026
Size: 502 bytes
Repository stars: 47
License: GPL-3.0

Explain a PR's intent and changes in plain language (ex: /explain https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/42).

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.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add anantys-oss/koan/explain@sha256:1ef4ec3b3b690b1b

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_l6j3nzniz43cc36b.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_l6j3nzniz43cc36b)

3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 4, 2026 and Sep 17, 2026, about one every 52 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
v1.0.0 latest	2026-09-17	20ab93e	502 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-07-13	b43ed5e	484 B	A	view · diff
v1.0.0	2026-06-04	0a36b1d	483 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

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 (502 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

anantys-oss/koan · 47 stars · license GPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_l6j3nzniz43cc36b
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=anantys-oss/koan/explain
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1ef4ec3b3b690b1bc8078a650f2402050a62451f94eae7c2d34b83cda4be779d

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.

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