How does the Explainer skill handle different developer levels?

The skill adjusts the abstraction level and terminology based on the target audience, providing high-level business logic for junior devs and deep architectural rationale for senior devs.

Is the Explainer skill useful for documentation?

Absolutely. It provides standardized Markdown patterns for 'How it works' and 'Concept' sections that can be directly pasted into project READMEs or internal wikis.

Can this skill explain why a specific technology was chosen?

Yes, it includes a dedicated Decision Explanation Format that outlines the context, options considered, pros/cons, and the final rationale behind specific trade-offs.

Does it use external context to explain code?

The skill is designed to gather full context by reading surrounding modules, related tests, git history, and comments before generating an explanation.

Technical Explainer

Name: Technical Explainer
Author: TheBushidoCollective

byTheBushidoCollective

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Learning & Documentation

Generates structured, audience-aware technical explanations for code, architectural decisions, and complex software concepts.

About

The Explainer skill streamlines technical communication by prioritizing clarity over completeness, ensuring that information is always tailored to the recipient's expertise level. It provides standardized frameworks for explaining source code, abstract concepts, and engineering decisions, helping developers move beyond 'what' the code does to 'why' it exists. By leveraging specific patterns for error messages, legacy code, and trade-off analysis, this skill facilitates high-quality documentation and knowledge transfer across engineering teams.

Key Features

Contextual analysis using git history, tests, and surrounding code
Structured formats for clarifying legacy code and error messages
Standardized templates for code, concepts, and architectural decisions
Best-practice guidelines for using analogies and concrete examples
Audience-specific tailoring for junior vs. senior developers
39 GitHub stars

Use Cases

Onboarding developers to complex legacy systems with clear context
Documenting the rationale behind major architectural trade-offs
Simplifying cryptic error messages into actionable debugging guides

About

Key Features

Contextual analysis using git history, tests, and surrounding code
Structured formats for clarifying legacy code and error messages
Standardized templates for code, concepts, and architectural decisions
Best-practice guidelines for using analogies and concrete examples
Audience-specific tailoring for junior vs. senior developers
39 GitHub stars

Use Cases

Onboarding developers to complex legacy systems with clear context
Documenting the rationale behind major architectural trade-offs
Simplifying cryptic error messages into actionable debugging guides