Individual skill
eli5
WHAT: Explains a codebase, a folder, a feature, a command or a pull request to someone who knows nothing about it, as a PR Lens canvas whose walkthrough builds the picture one part at a time. WHEN: /eli5 <thing>, or asked to explain code simply, for a beginner, a new hire, a non-engineer, or 'like I'm five'. KEYWORDS: eli5, explain like I'm five, explain simply, beginner, onboarding, walkthrough, diagram, PR Lens
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- Last checked
- Nov 3, 2026
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# eli5
Explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this code: one sentence, then one part at a time, until the whole picture is on screen and the reader already knows every part of it.
A reader who knows nothing cannot take in a diagram. They can take in two boxes and an arrow. So the canvas starts with two boxes and grows. The whole picture is the last thing they see, not the first, and by then it holds nothing new.
You write one graph document. Its views are the growing pictures, its walkthrough plays them in order, and PR Lens draws them. The reader opens a link and presses play. There is no page, no list, no paragraph.
## What you need
The PR Lens manual and its reference pages. The PR Lens CLI prints both. Run `npx @coldtea/pr-lens-cli@latest skill`, then `npx @coldtea/pr-lens-cli@latest skill references`, and read both before your first document. The manual's rules hold here except where this page marks an **Override**.
## Operating manual
