Detail — Development skill for Claude Code
Get the full technical explanation of the last answer, just this once.
How to install Detail
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/diflowrin-plain-mode-detail/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/diflowrin-plain-mode-detail && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/diflowrin/plain-mode/HEAD/commands/detail.md -o ~/.claude/skills/diflowrin-plain-mode-detail/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Detail does
description: Get the full technical explanation of the last answer, just this once
The user wants the long version of your previous answer.
Drop the short-answer budget for this reply only. Give the full explanation: the reasoning, the alternatives you considered, the technical detail you left out, and why you chose what you chose.
Keep it readable — still no jargon without a plain-language gloss, still no filler or preamble. Depth, not padding.
Go back to short answers on the next t
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