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Explain code with visual diagrams and analogies. Use when explaining how code works, walking through a codebase area, or the user asks "how does this work?" Don't use for modifying code, fixing bugs, or multi-session learning (/teach).

114 other projects use a version of this.

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Projects with it also use to-prd, to-issues and 10 more.

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    Use this skill when user wants to create a refactor plan.

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    Generate multiple radically different interface designs for a module using parallel sub-agents. Use when user wants to design an API, explore interface options, compare module shapes, or mentions "design it twice".

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    Extract a DDD-style ubiquitous language glossary from the current conversation, flagging ambiguities and proposing canonical terms. Saves to UBIQUITOUS_LANGUAGE.md. Use when user wants to define domain terms, build a glossary, harden terminology, create a ubiquitous language, or mentions "domain model" or "DDD".

    Also in 15 projects that use this

  • Code-ShockSkill

    git-guardrails

    Set up git guardrails — a Claude Code PreToolUse hook that intercepts and blocks dangerous git commands such as force-push and hard reset before they run. Use to install git safety hooks or when the user runs /git-guardrails.

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  • +3 more from simo97
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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

1 rule. 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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    Common

    Most of the 24 edited versions we read keep these.

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    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 0

    Very specific

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

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  1. Distinctive:

    Read the code and anything it depends on before explaining.

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“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 24 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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Files
SKILL.md

Read the code and anything it depends on before explaining. Then, always:

  1. Start with an analogy from everyday life.
  2. Draw an ASCII diagram matching the shape of the thing: flow, sequence between actors, tree/hierarchy, state machine, data structure, or before/after. One concept per diagram — split rather than cram.
  3. Walk through the code step by step.
  4. Highlight a gotcha: a common mistake or misconception.

Conversational tone. Complex concepts get more than one analogy.

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