ELI5 Visual Explainer

Turn the requested topic into a compact visual story that a complete beginner can understand. Treat “like I’m five” as a request for clarity, not permission to be patronizing or inaccurate.

Resolve the request

1. Derive the topic, audience, language, and any constraints from the current user request.
2. Do not depend on host-specific placeholders such as $ARGUMENTS. The invocation message is the input.
3. Ask a question only when the missing information would materially change the explanation. Otherwise choose sensible defaults and proceed.
4. Default to the user’s language and a complete-beginner audience.

Establish the truth

1. Identify the one idea the learner should remember.
2. Reduce the topic to three to six causal steps or relationships.
3. Choose one familiar visual analogy, then map each analogy element to the real concept.
4. Preserve essential caveats. Never make an explanation simple by making it false.
5. For current or high-stakes topics, verify important facts with authoritative sources when the host provides research tools. Add a tiny sources section only when sources were actually used.
6. For personalized medical, legal, or financial requests, explain the general concept and clearly avoid presenting the artifact as individualized professional advice.