Agent skill · ma08
context-explainer
Create source-grounded explainers for research, engineering, architecture, task, issue, PR, and implementation-plan context. Use for end-to-end mental models, technical pitches, decision briefs, or artifacts copied to a local Mac. Research/engineering mode is real LaTeX compiled to PDF with native TikZ/PGF figures; regular mode is minimal self-contained HTML.
What it needs
About 3k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Context Explainer Create an artifact that teaches the reader a durable mental model. Prefer quiet typography, evidence, and useful figures over interface decoration. 1. Resolve scope and sources 1. Resolve the canonical task folder and status file. 2. Put curated outputs under task-progress-artifacts/; put build logs, rendered pages, screenshots, and intermediate files under task-progress-artifacts/scratchpad/. 3. Inspect primary code, tests, issue/PR state, docs, results, and prior artifacts. Verify mutable external state when relevant. 4. Distinguish facts, measurements, inferences, proposals, and unresolved questions. 2. Select one style Research / engineering — default for experiments, benchmark methodology, system architecture, research proposals, evaluation plans, and technical pitches. Read references/research-engineering-style.md completely and start from assets/research-engineering-template.tex. Regular artifact — default for task context, issue families, product plans, PR explanations, and general decision briefs. Read references/regular-style.md completely and start from assets/regular-template.html. Honor an explicit style or output-format request. If the audience or use case is ambiguous, choose the quieter style; do not ask merely about aesthetics. Research mode produces editable .tex source and a PDF compiled by a real LaTeX engine. Regular mode normally produces self-contained HTML. 3. State the thesis before authoring Send a concise commentary update covering: Argument: the one sentence the reader should remember. Reader path: the minimum section sequence needed to establish it. Figure plan: only relationships that materially benefit from a visual. Do not invent an interaction thesis when a static paper or essay is clearer. 4. Author the artifact Research / engineering 1. Copy the LaTeX template into the task artifact and replace its placeholders. 2. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills ma08/context-explainer--c46839