The /explain skill is a codebase explorer that lives at .claude/skills/explain/. When invoked via /explain , it routes your question to one of five playbooks — default.md, architecture.md, pattern.md, technology.md, or design.md — based on what kind of question you're asking (a specific concept, a system design, a coding convention, a library, or a visual/UI question). It first runs a short interview to calibrate depth (Pamphlet, Novella, or Novel), then produces a tailored explanation. It...
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The /explain skill is a codebase explorer that lives at .claude/skills/explain/. When invoked via /explain <topic>, it routes your question to one of five playbooks — default.md, architecture.md, pattern.md, technology.md, or design.md — based on what kind of question you're asking (a specific concept, a system design, a coding convention, a library, or a visual/UI question). It first runs a short interview to calibrate depth (Pamphlet, Novella, or Novel), then produces a tailored explanation. It can also be called by other agents using a depth: prefix to skip the interview and get a compact structured output.
The /explain skill is a codebase explorer that lives at .claude/skills/explain/. When invoked via /explain , it routes your question to one of five playbooks — default.md, architecture.md, pattern.md, technology.md, or design.md — based on what kind of question you're asking (a specific concept, a system design, a coding convention, a library, or a visual/UI question). It first runs a short interview to calibrate depth (Pamphlet, Novella, or Novel), then produces a tailored explanation. It...