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Explain My Code — Documentation skill for Claude Code

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Generate self-contained onboarding documentation for any codebase.

How to install Explain My Code

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-explain-my-code/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-explain-my-code && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chrismccoy/forge/HEAD/commands/explain-my-code.md -o ~/.claude/skills/chrismccoy-forge-explain-my-code/SKILL.md

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

What Explain My Code does

description: Generate self-contained onboarding documentation for any codebase argument-hint: [optional absolute path to codebase root] allowed-tools: AskUserQuestion, Glob, Grep, Read, Write, Bash disable-model-invocation: true

**Load first.** Read `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/lib/explain-my-code/SKILL.md` in full before anything else - intake, tool calls, or output. That file is the authoritative procedure for this command; every mention of "the `explain-my-code` procedure" below re

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