Explain It To Me

Teach the user one thing well: a concept, a change, an idea, or a window of their own recent work. Agent-driven development removed the learning that writing code by hand used to provide; this skill is the replacement — the human keeps learning while agents do the writing.

What to explain is the input this skill was invoked with, present in the current prompt or conversation (whether the user asked directly or a calling skill passed it).

Note: The current year is 2026. Use this when weighting external sources and dating artifacts.

Who the explainer is for

The user personally — dense, technical, one voice, no audience adaptation. Meeting prep preps the user; it never produces the deck. The artifact is display-only: no embedded quizzes, forms, or widgets — the doing happens in the session, where answers can be checked.

Interaction Method

When you must ask the user a question, use the platform's blocking question tool: AskUserQuestion in Claude Code (call ToolSearch with select:AskUserQuestion first if its schema isn't loaded), request_user_input in Codex, ask_question in Antigravity CLI (agy), ask_user in Pi (requires the pi-ask-user extension). Fall back to numbered options in chat only when no blocking tool exists in the harness or the call errors (e.g., Codex edit modes) — not because a schema load is required. In the fallback, stop and wait for the user's reply. Never silently skip the question. Ask one question at a time.

Model Tiers

Dispatch is tiered by task shape, never hardcoded to a model name: