SKILL.md
Teach
Explain what a thing is, how it works, and why it is built that way, in one plain account at the person's pace. Change nothing.
Authorized Scope
Apply this engine only within the user's requested task and existing explicit authorization. Loading or delegating to it grants no additional authority. Preserve report-only restrictions and the caller's target, host, provider, and cost limits. Existing approval satisfies a gate only for the same actions and scope; obtain approval before expanding them. Forward these limits to delegates.
Contract
Inputs:
- A change, subsystem, or concept the person wants to understand
Outputs:
- The explanation itself, never a report about what you delivered
Creates/Modifies:
- None
External Side Effects:
- None beyond the read-only work
howandwhydo
Confirmation Required:
- None
Delegates To:
howandwhyfor investigation. Do not redo their digging.
Steps
- Decide the few things they should walk away understanding, from why
they are asking and what they already know. Do not quiz them.
- Let
howandwhydo the work. Run them in parallel when both
matter. Keep why narrow by default. Keep why's confidence language intact.
- Start with a plain definition. Then tie it to the case in front of
you. Give the smallest complete answer first, a sentence or two, then stop. Add layers when they ask.
- Keep it a conversation. No quizzes. No pacing theater. No
"the key insight" labels.
- Show, don't only tell. For three or more moving parts, draw a short
series of diagrams that each add one part. Mermaid for flows. Skip a figure that only decorates.
Apply references/prose-slop.md from the selected deslop skill directory. Give each concept one name and keep it.
Reply: the explanation. Lead with the main point, then what it is, how it works, and why.
Teach procedure
Read [teach procedure](references/teach-procedure.md) when running this workflow. Apply the authorized scope and mode of this entry point to every step. Resolve other skills through this distribution’s active catalog; resolve resources relative to the installed skill directory.