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explain

Skill0 starsChanged 3 months agoMITView on GitHub

Explain a feature, module, or concept from this repo as a storybook — as many mascot panels as the topic needs, with captions — shown in chat and saved under docs/show-me-how/<topic>/<topic>.md.

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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 109 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 3

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  1. Distinctive:

    Read the top 5 files, or just the relevant sections of larger ones.

    line 15
  2. Distinctive:

    If nothing matches, tell the user exactly what you searched (the terms and the globs) and ask them to point at a file or folder instead.

    line 16
  3. Distinctive:

    Write BRIEF (<=200 words): what it is, who uses it, the ideas a newcomer must get (as many as the topic really has), the one gotcha.

    line 20

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 109 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
Files
SKILL.md

/show-me-how:explain $ARGUMENTS

TOPIC = "$ARGUMENTS". If empty, ask the user for a topic and stop — do not guess one.

1. Gather (read-only, at most 5 files)

  1. Grep the repo for the topic words (case-insensitive) across *.md, docs/, and code files (*.ts, *.tsx, *.js, *.mjs, *.py, *.go, *.rs, *.java, *.cs, *.rb, *.php), excluding node_modules, dist, build, .git, .superpowers/, **/plans/, **/specs/, and *-report.md — planning and report files describe work about the topic, not the topic. Grep only — never edit or write during this step.
  2. Rank hits: primary key is path relevance, in this order: README > docs/ > ADR > entry points > everything else; tie-break by number of matching lines per file (descending).
  3. Read the top 5 files, or just the relevant sections of larger ones. Record each path read as SOURCES.
  4. If nothing matches, tell the user exactly what you searched (the terms and the globs) and ask them to point at a file or folder instead. Stop.

2. Brief

Write BRIEF (<=200 words): what it is, who uses it, the ideas a newcomer must get (as many as the topic really has), the one gotcha.

3. Illustrate

Invoke the illustrate skill (skills/illustrate/SKILL.md) from its step 0, with this brief block:

MODE: explain
TOPIC: <TOPIC>
SOURCES: <the paths from step 1.3>
BRIEF: <the text from step 2>
MAX_IMAGES: 8

Illustrate prints the finished storybook in chat and saves it as <docs>/<slug>/<slug>.md; do not duplicate its output.

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