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grandma

Skill12 starsChanged 8 months agoMITView on GitHub

Explain technical concepts using everyday analogies that a grandma or 5-year-old could understand.

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We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

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

  • ≈0

    Common · estimate

    Many files like this have a rule of this kind.

  • ≈5

    Distinctive · estimate

    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:

    Understand the topic: If it's a project module, quickly read design docs and core code to understand what it actually does

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  2. Distinctive:

    If the concept has multiple layers, use different roles/stages within the SAME scenario — don't switch scenarios

    line 15
  3. Distinctive:

    Start with the scene: "Imagine you're at..."

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  4. Distinctive:

    After the analogy, "translate" back in one sentence: "What we just called X is actually Y in the code"

    line 19
  5. Distinctive:

    Use technical jargon (unless the user is asking what a specific term means)

    line 22

≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “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

Respond in the user's preferred language (detect from their recent messages, or fall back to the language setting in CLAUDE.md).

Arguments: $ARGUMENTS — any technical concept, module, or design decision (e.g., "ECS", "why does the task system use a push model", "what is MCP", "A* pathfinding algorithm")

Behavior

  1. Understand the topic: If it's a project module, quickly read design docs and core code to understand what it actually does
  2. Find an everyday life analogy that:
    • Uses a scenario everyone has experienced (cooking, queuing, moving house, school, grocery shopping...)
    • Covers the core mechanism, not just a surface similarity
    • If the concept has multiple layers, use different roles/stages within the SAME scenario — don't switch scenarios
  3. Explain the entire concept through the analogy:
    • Start with the scene: "Imagine you're at..."
    • Map each role and action in the scene to key parts of the technical concept
    • After the analogy, "translate" back in one sentence: "What we just called X is actually Y in the code"
  4. If there are common misconceptions, address them: "Many people think... but actually..."
  5. Don't:
    • Use technical jargon (unless the user is asking what a specific term means)
    • Show code
    • Say "simply put" followed by something not simple
    • Say "it's like in programming..." — the audience doesn't know programming, that's not an analogy
    • Be condescending ("this is basic", "you can think of it as")

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