What does this plugin do?

It makes the agent add educational insights about implementation choices and codebase patterns to its output, explaining why it made certain coding choices.

Does it replace the deprecated Explanatory output style?

It mimics the deprecated Explanatory output style, providing similar explanatory behavior through a plugin.

explanatory-output-style

PackAI & models

The explanatory output style plugin is a plugin that makes an AI agent explain its coding work as it goes. It adds educational insights about implementation choices and codebase patterns, so the person using the agent learns why certain decisions were made rather than just receiving finished code. It mimics the deprecated Explanatory output style.

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Have an AI agent setup that supports plugins.

What your AI can do with it

Adds educational insights about implementation choices
Explains codebase patterns the agent encounters
Mimics the deprecated Explanatory output style
Lets the agent explain why it made certain coding choices

Getting started

Have an AI agent setup that supports plugins.
Add the explanatory-output-style plugin to it.
Enable the plugin so the agent's coding responses include explanations.
Ask the agent to write or change code and review the educational insights it provides.

Signals

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Forks: 4k
Last commit: Sep 2026

Questions

What does this plugin do?: It makes the agent add educational insights about implementation choices and codebase patterns to its output, explaining why it made certain coding choices.
Does it replace the deprecated Explanatory output style?: It mimics the deprecated Explanatory output style, providing similar explanatory behavior through a plugin.

Advanced

Item type: plugin
Key: anthropics-claude-plugins-official-explanatory-output-style
Source: github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official

github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official