explanation-guidance SKILL.md skillA
explanation-guidance from testdouble/han is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add testdouble/han/explanation-guidance@git:20260818.55bdb1dPins git:20260818.55bdb1d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- testdouble/han
- Path
han-communication/skills/explanation-guidance/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260818.55bdb1d, committed Aug 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,796 bytes
- Repository stars
- 338
- License
- MIT
Surfaces Han's shared standard for explaining technical work to a reader who will not implement it into the calling skill's own context, so the caller writes its escalations, confirmation turns, and stops as a concrete outcome the reader could observe rather than as a mechanism. Use when a skill is about to ask a person a question, stop for an input, or explain a technical consequence to someone who will not open the code. Governs what a run says to a person in a turn, where…
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
## Project Context
- personal config directory: !`bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/han-config-dir.sh" 2>/dev/null || echo "$HOME/.claude"`
- project .han/config.md: !`cat .han/config.md 2>/dev/null || echo ""`
As your first action, use the Read tool on `.han/config.md` inside the `personal config directory` path above. A read
that returns no file is no personal configuration: continue silently. When that file or the `project .han/config.md`
probe supplies content, apply it per [config-rule.md](../../references/config-rule.md), which governs precedence
between the two files, relative-path resolution, and what to do with a file that reads but cannot be used.
# Explanation Guidance
You have invoked `explanation-guidance` to source the shared explanation standard before you talk to a person. This skill
surfaces the standard into your own context and hands control back. It is a means to writing your turn, not the turn
itself: apply what it surfaces, then RETURN to the workflow that called you and finish it.
This skill is **inline** — it runs in your context, not an isolated one, so the standard it surfaces stays available to
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add testdouble/han/explanation-guidance@sha256:c097d73f02d0b58fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260818.55bdb1d, 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 5 versions of this file, between Jul 29, 2026 and Aug 18, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260818.55bdb1d latest | 2026-08-18 | 55bdb1d | 3,796 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260731.e79299f | 2026-07-31 | e79299f | 3,686 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260730.78dc4f8 | 2026-07-30 | 78dc4f8 | 3,891 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260730.e86a73d | 2026-07-30 | e86a73d | 3,711 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260729.0fbe152 | 2026-07-29 | 0fbe152 | 3,372 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 (3796 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
testdouble/han · 338 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_oibkbe4dgqnc4cht GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=testdouble/han/explanation-guidance GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c097d73f02d0b58f06bda438e08fe20c6b8ec022b9509e0510593e5bdd489cc7
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.