explain-plainly SKILL.md skillA
explain-plainly from aethrox/doctrine is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add aethrox/doctrine/explain-plainly@git:20260809.2a45dbbPins git:20260809.2a45dbb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- aethrox/doctrine
- Path
skills/explain-plainly/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260809.2a45dbb, committed Aug 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 9, 2026
- Size
- 4,472 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Default to explaining technical work in plain language for a non-technical audience, using an existing project glossary only when a persistent document is already in scope. Use whenever an explanation is aimed at someone outside the technical team, or whenever jargon would otherwise go unexplained. Distinct from wait-what, which is a recovery move after an explanation already failed, not a default posture.
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 Plainly Most technical writing defaults to precision for an audience that already has the vocabulary, then gets awkwardly simplified after someone gets lost. This skill's defining constraint, from ISO 24495-1's plain language principles: plain framing is the default posture for a non-technical audience, not a fallback reached for only after confusion is signaled. This is the same standard `wait-what` uses, applied differently: `wait-what` triggers reactively, after a specific explanation has already failed to land; this skill is the proactive default for anything explained to someone outside the technical team. When a project already has a persistent glossary owned by `domain-modeling`, this skill uses that artifact rather than creating a separate one. ## Phase 1: Default to no unexplained jargon …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add aethrox/doctrine/explain-plainly@sha256:691190484c7a237fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.2a45dbb, 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_yqycamcuealofeoa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 9, 2026.
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| git:20260809.2a45dbb latest | 2026-08-09 | 2a45dbb | 4,472 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.ffadeff | 2026-08-09 | ffadeff | 4,369 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260809.72724db | 2026-08-09 | 72724db | 3,858 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No script tag
Source
aethrox/doctrine · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yqycamcuealofeoa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aethrox/doctrine/explain-plainly GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/691190484c7a237f0ae89b444f654ad88c1ca3e733b379455761320d4f956195
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