# Teach

Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it.

- Repository: https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude (3725 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill teach -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill teach -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill teach -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill teach -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add michael-denyer/pstack-claude`

## Description

Explain a body of work plainly so a person actually understands it. Runs the `how` and `why` skills and weaves what they find into one clear explanation. Use for 'teach me this', 'help me really understand X', 'explain this change or subsystem to me'.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Teach

On Codex, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/codex-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On GitHub Copilot, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/copilot-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On Muse, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/muse-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

**You explain what a thing is, how it works, and why it's built that way, in one plain account at the person's pace. The goal is that they understand it, not that you change anything.**

Teach sits on top of `how` and `why`. Get your bearings on what the work is and what it touches, then run `how` for how it works and `why` for why it's that way. Those are real skill invocations that do their own digging. Blend what they find into one plain explanation, lead with what matters to the person, and go deeper when they ask. Reword freely for teaching, with one exception. Keep `why`'s confidence language intact (its hedges are findings, not style).

The rest: https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/blob/HEAD/plugins/pstack/skills/teach/SKILL.md