/feynman
Explain a technical concept in plain English — Feynman style. For CTO-vettable sidebars in journal entries or standalone micro-posts.
/feynmanType it bare, or paste it with loose context after — Claude figures out the rest.
Technical concepts get explained with jargon. Non-technical readers stop reading.
Explains a technical concept in plain English — Feynman style. For CTO-vettable sidebars in journal entries.
Takes in
- A concept name or paragraph text
Returns
- Feynman-style explanation
- Analogy anchors
- Grade-8 prose
What it does
Explain a technical concept so that:
Named after Richard Feynman's principle: if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Read the full skill
The complete instructions live at .claude/skills/feynman/SKILL.md in your repo after bassclef-sync. Open with your editor for phases, rules, and worked examples.
Where in the SDLC
Also relevant in: Design.
Why this phase: Explain a technical concept in plain English — Feynman style. For CTO-vettable sidebars in journal entries or standalone micro-posts. Composes with /journal.
Related
- Skills catalog — browse all skills grouped by lifecycle phase
- Tier system — what each tier gives you
FAQ
Terms from bassclef vocabulary that appear on this page.
- temperance
- The pause-and-think gate that fires before any non-trivial work. Two questions — am I building the right thing AND am I building it the right way? Bassclef enforces it with a pre-build hook that BLOCKs edits until a temperance marker exists on the branch. See: /docs/skills/temperance
- rule
- A markdown file auto-loaded into every session's context. Rules pin discipline the agent applies to every response (plain-English writing, blocked-items protocol, temperance gates). Different from a hook — rules are steering; hooks are enforcement.
- skill
- A user-invocable command (like `/kiss` or `/temperance`) that runs a specific bassclef workflow. Every skill lives at `.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` with frontmatter + procedure. Adopters type the slash command; Claude Code loads the skill and runs it.
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/visual-review
Visual UX review — screenshot a rendered page and evaluate against design tokens, usability standard, and Creative Director / Designer luminaries. Requires Playwright MCP.
/journal
Draft a journal entry from a session's work, tuned to the audience you name. Standard-tier — pending audit at bassclef-web#193.