📋 Explain Like
This skill explains code changes or designs at beginner, intermediate, and expert levels to improve understanding and reveal gaps.
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npx playbooks add skill arjenschwarz/agentic-coding --skill explain-like
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This skill explains code changes or designs at beginner, intermediate, and expert levels to improve understanding and reveal gaps.. This skill provides a specialized system prompt that configures your AI coding agent as a explain like expert, with detailed methodology and structured output formats.
Compatible with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, OpenClaw, Cline, and any agent that supports custom system prompts.
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This skill explains code changes or designs at beginner, intermediate, and expert levels to improve understanding and reveal gaps.
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