explain-this SKILL.md skillA
explain-this from tobihagemann/turbo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/explain-this@git:20260508.4249183Pins git:20260508.4249183 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tobihagemann/turbo
- Path
claude/skills/explain-this/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260508.4249183, committed May 8, 2026
- Size
- 4,620 bytes
- Repository stars
- 418
- License
- MIT
Explain whatever the user is pointing at right now in plain language: a pending question, a piece of code, an error, a command output, or an artifact like a plan or findings report. Use when the user asks to "explain this", "what am I being asked", "what's happening right now", "help me understand this", "what does this mean", "what does this error mean", "what is this code doing", or "what do these options mean".
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 This Take whatever the user is pointing at and translate it into plain language. "This" is usually the most recent assistant output or something pasted as an argument: a multi-option prompt, a free-form question, a code block, an error, a command output, or an artifact like a plan, findings report, or diff. ## Step 1: Identify the Subject Pick the subject in priority order: 1. Text passed as an argument — use that 2. A quoted or selected region from the user's most recent message — use that 3. The most recent non-trivial assistant output — use that 4. If the guess is not obvious, lead the explanation by naming what was picked so the user can redirect ## Step 2: Ground in State Read whatever makes the explanation concrete, no more: - Files the subject references - The active skill's `SKILL.md` when a skill-specific question is being asked - `git status` and `git diff --stat` when the subject involves staged or unstaged changes - Any artifact cited (plan, spec, findings, test plan, audit, PR, commit) ## Step 3: Produce the Explanation …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/explain-this@sha256:d8b95b9ac93908c4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260508.4249183, 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_xo5z3ekatbmexvev)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 8, 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 (4620 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
tobihagemann/turbo · 418 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xo5z3ekatbmexvev GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tobihagemann/turbo/explain-this GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d8b95b9ac93908c440ad34d0954ad4d9cd247f861aec6c65a16ff62ce28ec2bf
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.
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