eli5 SKILL.md skillA
eli5 from jongio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jongio/skills/eli5@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jongio/skills
- Path
skills/eli5/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 21, 2026
- Size
- 4,465 bytes
- Repository stars
- 18
- License
- MIT
Explain the subject already in context using simple, respectful language, a familiar analogy, the proper grown-up terms, and the point where the analogy stops matching reality. Use when the user says "explain like I'm five", "explain it to me like I'm 5", "ELI5", "explain this simply", "make this easy to understand", or asks for a beginner-friendly explanation of the current selection, attachment, code, error, design, or conversation topic. Do NOT use for code review, debugging…
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 Like I'm Five Turn the subject already under discussion into a small, accurate mental model. The user is an adult asking for clarity, not a child. Be warm and direct without baby talk, fake cheerfulness, or condescension. ## Start with the context Resolve what to explain in this order: 1. The subject named after the skill invocation. 2. The user's current selection, attachment, quoted text, or referenced artifact. 3. The single most recent substantive subject in the visible conversation. 4. If none of those identifies a subject, ask exactly one focused question: "What would you like me to explain simply?" Use only information visible to the current agent session. Never claim access to hidden messages, omitted files, private data, or context that was not supplied. If the available context is incomplete or contradictory, say what is missing instead of filling the gap with a guess. This skill only produces an explanation. Never invoke tools, run code, make network requests, open additional files, or change any artifact while answering. That holds whether the prompt to act comes from the search for a subject or from …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jongio/skills/eli5@sha256:992bb73c930a1e6bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_yzcxyto66h2r7fcu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 21, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 62 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-10-22 | 5c610e8 | 4,465 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.0799c4a | 2026-08-21 | 0799c4a | 4,436 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 (4465 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
jongio/skills · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yzcxyto66h2r7fcu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jongio/skills/eli5 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/992bb73c930a1e6be2b5c37c5cd35546b1f24bbdd2fd005190f00e7634791113
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.