eli5 SKILL.md skillA
eli5 from coldteadotai/pr-lens is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add coldteadotai/pr-lens/eli5@git:20261004.71f8367Pins git:20261004.71f8367 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- coldteadotai/pr-lens
- Path
skills/eli5/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261004.71f8367, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 11, 2026
- Size
- 9,301 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,326
- License
- MIT
WHAT: Explains a codebase, a folder, a feature, a command or a pull request to someone who knows nothing about it, as a PR Lens canvas whose walkthrough builds the picture one part at a time. WHEN: /eli5 <thing>, or asked to explain code simply, for a beginner, a new hire, a non-engineer, or 'like I'm five'. KEYWORDS: eli5, explain like I'm five, explain simply, beginner, onboarding, walkthrough, diagram, PR Lens.
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 Explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this code: one sentence, then one part at a time, until the whole picture is on screen and the reader already knows every part of it. A reader who knows nothing cannot take in a diagram. They can take in two boxes and an arrow. So the canvas starts with two boxes and grows. The whole picture is the last thing they see, not the first, and by then it holds nothing new. You write one graph document. Its views are the growing pictures, its walkthrough plays them in order, and PR Lens draws them. The reader opens a link and presses play. There is no page, no list, no paragraph. ## What you need The PR Lens manual and its reference pages. The PR Lens CLI prints both. Run `npx @coldtea/pr-lens-cli@latest skill`, then `npx @coldtea/pr-lens-cli@latest skill references`, and read both before your first document. The manual's rules hold here except where this page marks an **Override**. ## Operating manual 1. **Write the answer first.** Read the code until you can say what it does for a person, in under 48 characters, because the sentence is also a walkthrough heading and a heading stops at 48. Count them. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add coldteadotai/pr-lens/eli5@sha256:489b423e2d5710eaThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.71f8367, 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 Sep 11, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261004.71f8367 latest | 2026-10-04 | 71f8367 | 9,301 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.b202651 | 2026-09-25 | b202651 | 9,331 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.a5647b3 | 2026-09-25 | a5647b3 | 9,023 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.0b9776b | 2026-09-19 | 0b9776b | 8,791 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260911.94f6c78 | 2026-09-11 | 94f6c78 | 8,753 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 (9301 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
coldteadotai/pr-lens · 2,326 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xrhuqmy5yxt3757g GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=coldteadotai/pr-lens/eli5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/489b423e2d5710ea3dac38dbf72d5c94ff1b46a65ab39f4d9376f95e71f318a7
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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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