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explain-simply

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Re-explain something from the CURRENT conversation — a finding id (e.g. F7.2), a term, a decision, an acronym, or a paragraph you just wrote — in plain language for someone with zero context. Use when the user says "explain X simply", "what does that even mean", "eli5", "as if I don't know what you're talking about", "in plain terms / plain English", "break that down", or points at jargon or an open decision and wants it made understandable.

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    1. Yassimba/loom★ 9same name
    2. preetamnath/agent-skills★ 4same name
    3. 50R1Paps/skills★ 1same name
    4. kaushik912/my-claude-skills★ 1same name
    5. cobuchan/compounding-operator★ 0same name

    How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.

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5 rules. 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 5 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 5

    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:

    Use plain words and short sentences.

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  2. Distinctive:

    Use only facts from this conversation.

    line 18
  3. Distinctive:

    Add one everyday comparison or one small inline ASCII drawing only when the idea is hard to see without it.

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  4. Distinctive:

    When the thing is a choice the user must make, end with the options, each with one pro and one con, your pick first.

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  5. Distinctive:

    When you cannot tell which thing the user means, ask in one line.

    line 21

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 5 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.

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SKILL.md

explain-simply

Explain the thing the user points at, from this conversation, to a smart reader with zero context.

  • Use plain words and short sentences. Define a term the first time you need it.
  • Say what the thing is, why it matters, and what follows from it. Stop there.
  • Use only facts from this conversation. When a needed fact was never settled, say so.
  • Add one everyday comparison or one small inline ASCII drawing only when the idea is hard to see without it.
  • When the thing is a choice the user must make, end with the options, each with one pro and one con, your pick first.
  • When you cannot tell which thing the user means, ask in one line.

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