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guicortei/feynman-technique
An Agent Skill that makes any AI explain like Richard Feynman: mechanism before name, one honest analogy with its limits, and a ladder from kitchen-table to specialist. Built from a ~88k-word primary-source corpus.
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Individual skills in this repository
- feynman-technique
skills/feynman-technique
How it works
feynman-technique
When your agent uses it
Explain anything the way Richard Feynman would — mechanism before name, one honest analogy, and a graded ladder from kitchen-table to specialist, with every new word defined at first use. Use when the user invokes /feynman-technique, asks to "explain it like Feynman", "explain like I'm a beginner", "explain this properly / more clearly", says they didn't understand a previous answer, or asks you to teach, unpack, or rewrite an explanation. Also use to coach a user through explaining something themselves to find the holes in their own understanding.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
168 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
5,508 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
20,648 tokensLoaded on request
Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.
The playbook
- 1. Where this actually comes from
- 2. Choose the shape before you write
- 3. The response skeleton
- 4. The vocabulary lock
- 5. Analogies are load-bearing, so engineer them
- 6. Honesty protocol
- 7. Self-audit before sending
- 8. Voice
- 9. Failure modes
- 10. Coach mode
- 11. Reference files
- 12. Precedence
Files
SKILL.mdcore22,932 bytesSKILL.mdcore22,932 bytesSKILL.mdcore22,932 bytesassets/checklist.mddoc3,161 bytesassets/worked-example.mddoc11,991 bytesreferences/analogies.mddoc10,904 bytesreferences/evidence.mddoc8,113 bytesreferences/failure-modes.mddoc9,194 bytesreferences/ladder.mddoc5,561 bytesreferences/other-languages.mddoc7,582 bytesreferences/sources.mddoc7,557 bytesreferences/voice.mddoc21,798 bytes
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- feynman-technique
Repository facts
- License
- No license detected
- Created
- Jul 28, 2026
- Last pushed
- Jul 31, 2026
- Forks
- 1
- Open issues
- 1
- Project activity
- Slowing
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 6, 2026
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- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- 3 network referencesin 1 file: feynman-technique/SKILL.md:6
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
Show all 3 signals by file
skills/feynman-technique/SKILL.md
How the signals fit together
Facts from a static read of the files at the pinned commit. They describe what the code does, not why.
Signal confidence: 3 facts
- Network access in the frontmatter of the SKILL.mdfeynman-technique/SKILL.md:6Low confidence
- Network access in the frontmatter of the SKILL.mdfeynman-technique/SKILL.md:7Low confidence
- Network access in the frontmatter of the SKILL.mdfeynman-technique/SKILL.md:8Low confidence
Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/feynman-technique/SKILL.md | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/feynman-technique/SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/feynman-technique/SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/feynman-technique/SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/feynman-technique/SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md skills/feynman-technique/SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.
