Usage:

/eli5 <topic>

Claude creates an HTML artifact with big pictures and very few words.

Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar shared it and said people at Anthropic have been using it a lot recently.

The whole skill file is only 10 lines. 🧠

The useful idea is not really "talk to me like a child."

It is:

assume I am smart, but assume I know nothing about this topic yet.

That makes it a good first pass for things like DNS, virtual memory, backpropagation, economics, philosophy, etc.

I would still use proper docs/books/papers for the detailed layer.

Skill: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/tree/main/eli5

Has anyone here tried using this visual-first workflow for learning unfamiliar codebases?

💻 I came across OpenClaude-Portable and I like the idea mostly because it reduces repeated setup.

It packages an AI coding agent into a self-contained folder and supports 9 providers, including Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama and LM Studio.

Settings, API keys and sessions stay inside the project directory.

Cloud providers still need internet, but with Ollama or another local provider the coding workflow can stay local once configured.

It supports Windows, Linux and macOS. 💾

To me, the interesting part is not "coding from a flash drive". It is being able to move the whole agent environment between machines.

Has anyone here tried doing this from a USB SSD in a real workflow?