Who it is forA developer advocate or educator explaining something like consistent hashing or OAuth to newcomers.
The problemReaders skim explanations and think they understood until they try it.
The outcomeAn offline explainer with questions and answer reveals built into the story, plus annotations and favorites.
What you need first
- Node.js 18 or newer with local file access
- Codex or Claude Code with the Skill installed
- A modern browser to open the generated HTML
Steps
- Install the skill for Codex with
npx skills@latest add yizhiyanhua-ai/fireworks-open-eli5 -g -a codex -y - Ask for a concept story with teach-back questions for your audience
- Render the spec to HTML and open it in a modern browser
- Serve a folder of explainers with
node scripts/serve.mjs --root /absolute/path/to/explainers --port 8772to enable history and annotations - Export to PDF, PNG, PPTX or DOCX for sharing
Prompt for your agent
With yizhiyanhua-ai/fireworks-open-eli5, create a concept explainer of <topic> for <audience> with teach-back questions after each key scene, render it, and export a PDF copy.
Caveat.
Use this in your AI agent
Ask your agent
Using the Deduped MCP, get the setup steps for yizhiyanhua-ai/fireworks-open-eli5 and "Teach a hard concept with an explainer that quizzes the reader"
Add Deduped to Claude Code once
claude mcp add --transport http deduped https://dedupedai.com/mcp
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