Explain

by SerhiiKorniienko

Explain is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by SerhiiKorniienko in bullshit-detector.

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Install Explain

Copy Explain into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector/tree/main/skills/analysis/explain ~/.claude/skills/explain

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/analysis/explain/SKILL.md in SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/explain
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Explain does

Explains content or concepts at the requested depth (ELI5, practitioner, deep-dive) with a jargon glossary and context the original assumes, flagging oversimplifications or errors.

Explain is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Explain comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, ai-agents, claude-code, content-analysis and fact-checking.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

explain

Make the content understandable without dumbing it down dishonestly.

Workflow

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Explain

What else does SerhiiKorniienko publish alongside Explain?
Explain is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Bullshit Detector, Coverage Check and Fetch Content. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Explain does, and is maintained by SerhiiKorniienko in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector page.
How does Explain compare to other Writing skills?
Explain ranks #860 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Explain against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.