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explainer-artifact

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Use when asked to create an explainer document for a concept, diff, idea, or work recap. Drafts and verifies it in a scratch directory. Not for one-screen explanations: use explain-concept.

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# Explainer artifact

## Contract

| Field | Bound contract |
|---|---|
| Trigger | The user asks for an explainer document for a concept, diff reference, idea, or work recap window, or invokes the skill bare. |
| Authority | Reversible local: writes only to an isolated scratch run directory under `/tmp/odin-$(id -u)/explainer-artifact/`; rollback is deleting the run directory. No remote mutation. |
| Side effect | Creates and structurally verifies a durable local explainer artifact under the scratch run directory, presents it to the user, and stops before publishing or remotely relocating it; a human performs any publication or remote relocation. |
| Done | A structurally verified explainer artifact exists in the scratch directory and is presented to the user; any publication or remote relocation remains an unexecuted human handoff. A run that correctly ends without an artifact, an operational question answered in chat, an empty recap window, a bare invocation the user did not answer, is equally done. |

## Inputs

- A concept, a diff ref, an idea, or a work-recap window, supplied in the invocation or present in the current prompt. Optional: an audience other than the user and an output format (`md` instead of the default HTML).
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