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Explain

Keeps the principal current on the fundamentals of what is going on in the principal's projects, work and technical infrastructure: spoken interactive lessons on the conversation topic, deep explanations of an area's fundamentals read fresh from live sources, and quizzes that remember what the principal missed

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Reference
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Triggers

Key Points

Not for elaborating my last answer (the elaborate shortcut), the LifeOS core pitch (lc), story explanations of content (StoryExplanation), designed visual maps (Visualize), discovery interviews on a half-formed idea (/discuss)

Inside the Skill

The thinking, frameworks, and architecture that distinguish this skill from a generic version of the same task.

Ideal State

  • The principal leaves each session able to explain or apply the material, shown by the principal's own answers, not by how much was printed.
  • What he is told about a project, area or piece of infra is true of it today: read this session from the live source, never recalled.
  • Over time the skill knows where his understanding is thin, because every quiz answer is on the record, and each new quiz goes after the misses and whatever changed since he was last tested.

Intent Routing

Intent Trigger File
Teach "teach me", "/tm", "/teach-me", "tutorial", "quiz me" on what we just covered Intents/Teach.md
ExplainFundamentals "/ef", "explain the fundamentals of", "catch me up on", "how does X actually work" Intents/ExplainFundamentals.md
QuizFundamentals "/qf", "quiz me on the fundamentals of", "test what I know about", "am I still current on" Intents/QuizFundamentals.md
File Read when
Setup.md first-time setup: the voice server and Fish key the spoken narration needs, and a read-only check

Teach works on the conversation topic as a spoken dialogue. ExplainFundamentals and QuizFundamentals work on a standing area (a project, a work stream, a system) whether or not we touched it this session, and share one set of fundamentals per area so the quiz tests what the explanation taught.

Gotchas

  • "Quiz me" means two things. Right after a lesson or a piece of work, it is Teach's quiz protocol on that material. Naming an area ("quiz me on the billing service", "/qf the network") is QuizFundamentals, which reads the live source and the record of past answers.
  • The e shortcut is not this skill. It explains my last answer more, and more simply; /ef explains an area's fundamentals.

Examples

Example 1: Teach the thing we just built

User: "teach me" (after a session debugging DNS records)
→ Teach intent
→ Spoken intro, a concept map of 3-5 ideas, one beat and one question per turn
→ Ends with a 2-3 question quiz and a recap diagram

Example 2: Explain an area's fundamentals

User: "/ef billing service"
→ ExplainFundamentals intent
→ Reads its projects-table row, the project ISA and its code layout this session
→ The fundamentals by the "without X it can no longer ___" test, each with what it connects to, one flow diagram, what changed lately

Example 3: Quiz on fundamentals

User: "/qf home network"
→ QuizFundamentals intent
→ Reads the live sources and the learning record, asks 5 application questions one per turn, weighted to past misses
→ Each answer gets a verdict against the source and is appended to the STATVS learning stream

Workflows & Routing · 3

Each workflow is one job the skill runs. The trigger phrases route your request to the right one — this is the skill's routing table.

  1. 01
    Teach Intents/Teach.md

    teach me, /tm, /teach-me, tutorial, quiz me on what we just covered

  2. 02
    ExplainFundamentals Intents/ExplainFundamentals.md

    /ef, explain the fundamentals of, catch me up on, how does X actually work

  3. 03
    QuizFundamentals Intents/QuizFundamentals.md

    /qf, quiz me on the fundamentals of, test what I know about, am I still current on

How to Invoke

Say any of these to your DA and LifeOS activates the Explain skill automatically:

  • "teach me"
  • "/tm"
  • "/teach-me"
  • "tutorial"
  • "teach me this"
  • "walk me through this interactively"
  • "learn mode"
  • "quiz me"
  • "help me actually understand what we just did"
  • "explain fundamentals"
  • "/ef"
  • "what are the fundamentals of"
  • "how does this project actually work"
  • "catch me up on"

Or invoke explicitly:

Skill("Explain")

References · 1

Auxiliary files the skill loads at runtime — frameworks, guides, configs.

  • Setup

Want LifeOS to do this for you?

Install LifeOS on your machine — your DA gets the Explain skill plus 96 others, all hooked into one Life OS.