eli5 SKILL.md skillA
eli5 from stevepolitodesign/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/eli5@git:20261104.06b438dPins git:20261104.06b438d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- stevepolitodesign/skills
- Path
eli5/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261104.06b438d, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 16, 2026
- Size
- 8,314 bytes
- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- none declared
Explain something to someone who knows nothing about it.
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
# ELI5
The user has no foothold. `/understand` questions them about a model they already
hold; here there is no model to question, and asking produces a guess you then have to
correct. So read the thing, then explain it — plainly, concretely, once.
Two ways this fails. You explain it in the vocabulary of the thing itself ("the
reconciler converges the cluster toward desired state"), which only reads to someone
who already understands it. Or you reach for concreteness and invent it: a config
value that isn't in the file, a sample record nobody has. The invented one is worse,
because it's memorable, wrong, and this reader has nothing to catch it with.
## 1. Find the thing
The target is `$ARGUMENTS`, or ask. It arrives as a path, a name they keep seeing
(`sidekiq`, `helm`, `useEffect`), a word off a ticket (`chargeback`, `dunning`), a
link, or pasted text.
A path is the thing. A name or a word gets looked for in this repo first — manifests,
config, `grep -ri` — since the version this codebase uses beats the general one, which
covers ten features they'll never touch. Not here at all? Say so in one line, explain
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/eli5@sha256:c3437e870d176a28The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.06b438d, 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_pw7foih25kos4o4n)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 16, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 48 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261104.06b438d latest | 2026-11-04 | 06b438d | 8,314 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260916.9c9c896 | 2026-09-16 | 9c9c896 | 7,763 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 (8314 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
stevepolitodesign/skills · 10 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pw7foih25kos4o4n GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stevepolitodesign/skills/eli5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c3437e870d176a282207496bc9ee5ebef256ac38428be8b851fa40b60779e993
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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