ide-explain SKILL.md skillB
ide-explain from rustyrazorblade/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rustyrazorblade/skills/ide-explain@git:20260905.9b24bd0Pins git:20260905.9b24bd0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- B, 16 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rustyrazorblade/skills
- Path
plugins/dev-skills/skills/ide-explain/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260905.9b24bd0, committed Sep 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 26, 2026
- Size
- 18,110 bytes
- Repository stars
- 44
- License
- Apache-2.0
Render an IDE-style single-page HTML view that explains anything the owner needs to see whole — a code diff, a GitHub issue plus everything linked to it, project docs, or any mix — as a file tree on the left, a code/diff/doc editor top-right, and an explanation pane bottom-right. Deterministic by default (no model tokens spent on markup); a hand-authored manifest mode exists for taught narratives. Self-contained output, no server, no CDN. Standalone — works in any repo, no other plugin required.
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
# ide-explain — IDE-style HTML view of a change, an issue, or both Renders a single, self-contained HTML file: a file tree on the left, a diff/code/doc editor top-right, and an explanation pane bottom-right. No server, no CDN, opens correctly via `file://`. The goal is aiding human understanding of what's happening in a change — a walkthrough or presentation of it, not a raw diff dump — whatever that change actually is: a **worktree** (uncommitted local work), a **branch** (against the default branch), or an **issue** (before any code exists at all). Standalone — nothing here depends on any other plugin, and it stays that way deliberately, since it needs to work on projects that can't or don't adopt spec-flow. Two modes — pick deterministic unless you have a specific reason to hand-author. If the `spec-flow` plugin is also installed, its `activate`/`implement` skills call this one automatically at the owner's two approval seams when `SPEC_FLOW_SEAM_VIEW=explain` — see `SPEC_FLOW_SEAM_VIEW` in that plugin's `docs/workflow.md`. That integration is optional and one-directional: this skill has no spec-flow dependency in either direction. ## Mode 1: deterministic (default) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rustyrazorblade/skills/ide-explain@sha256:991831157c18d177The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260905.9b24bd0, 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_yeosnz4l4kphh3hb)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 26, 2026 and Sep 5, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260905.9b24bd0 latest | 2026-09-05 | 9b24bd0 | 18,110 B | B | view · diff |
| git:20260826.cfa8efa | 2026-08-26 | cfa8efa | 18,125 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No script tag (matched: <script)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (18110 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
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
rustyrazorblade/skills · 44 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yeosnz4l4kphh3hb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rustyrazorblade/skills/ide-explain GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/991831157c18d177738da11fa66c903b498ca8af185bef30f46bf9e28d182bf8
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.