borkweb

Layman — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Restate something in plain, succinct, jargon-free English.

How to install Layman

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/borkweb-skills-layman/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/borkweb-skills-layman && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/borkweb/skills/HEAD/commands/layman.md -o ~/.claude/skills/borkweb-skills-layman/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Layman does

description: Restate something in plain, succinct, jargon-free English

You are running the `/layman` command.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS — optional. Text to restate, a file path to read and restate, on to enter sticky plain-language mode, or off/stop to leave it. Empty means restate your immediately preceding message.

Process

Read skills/core/layman/SKILL.md.
Execute that skill's workflow in full.
Resolve $ARGUMENTS per that skill's "Resolving the Input" secti

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