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The ELI5 skill Anthropic staff keep reaching for

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Thariq@trq212
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a skill people at Anthropic have been using a lot recently: ELI5 /eli5 <what you want explained> "explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words"

debating whether we should make it an official plugin, but you can try installing it here to try with these commands: claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community claude plugin install eli5@claude-community

I like to use this for explainers and diving into a problem, e.g. /eli5 how does this module work /eli5 why did we make this tradeoff /eli5 what caused this incident

Why it matters

Explaining unfamiliar code to yourself is the slow part of joining a codebase, and this is a copyable format for it.

Terms in this piece · Glossary
  • agent skill — A reusable instruction file that teaches an agent how to do one job well — the procedure, the tools, and what counts as done.
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