ELI5

SkillDev tools

Lets your agent explain papers and technical ideas in plain English with simple analogies and clear takeaways.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the ELI5 skill

About this capability

Explain research, papers, or technical ideas in plain English with minimal jargon, concrete analogies, and clear takeaways. Use when the user says "ELI5 this", asks for a simple explanation of a paper or research result, wants jargon removed, or asks what something technically dense actually means.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by companion-inc/feynman in skills/eli5/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use Feynman's alpha tools first when the user names a specific paper, arXiv id, DOI, or paper URL. In shell, call feynman alpha ..., not a bare global alpha binary.

If the user gives only a topic, identify 1-3 representative papers and anchor the explanation around the clearest or most important one.

Structure the answer with:

  • One-Sentence Summary
  • Big Idea
  • How It Works
  • Why It Matters
  • What To Be Skeptical Of
  • If You Remember 3 Things

Guidelines:

  • Use short sentences and concrete words.
  • Define jargon immediately or remove it.
  • Prefer one good analogy over several weak ones.
  • Separate what the paper actually shows from speculation or interpretation.
  • Keep the explanation inline unless the user explicitly asks to save it as an artifact.

Signals

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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
eli5-companion-inc
Source
github.com/companion-inc/feynman