Layman: Say It Plainly

Take something already said and say it again so a smart person outside the field gets it on the first read. Shorter than the original. No jargon. No preamble.

Invocation Boundary

This skill runs only when the user asks for it. /layman, "in layman's terms", "plainly", "no jargon", "explain that simply" — those are the triggers.

Do not invoke it on your own. Not when an answer came out dense, not when the user seems confused, not when a technical term slipped in. Offering an unrequested plain-English version is out of scope; being asked for one is the entire job.

Resolving the Input

1. No argument — restate the assistant's immediately preceding message in this conversation. That is the default and the common case. If the preceding message was itself a /layman output, restate the message before it instead. If there is no preceding assistant message, use AskUserQuestion to ask what to restate.
2. A file path — an argument containing /, starting with ./, ~/, or /, or carrying a file extension (.md, .txt, .mdx, .json) that exists on disk. Read it and restate its contents. Never write back to the file; /layman delivers to the conversation, it does not edit documents.
3. Inline text — anything else. Restate the argument verbatim as given.

Edge case: an argument that looks like a path but does not exist on disk is inline text. Don't ask, just restate it.

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