enjalot

Moonshine

Name: Moonshine
Author: enjalot

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SOURCE https://github.com/enjalot/moonshine

Description

A skill for distilling interactive technical explanations from AI generated complexity

Installation

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

README

moonshine

**Claude Code and Codex support for distilling interactive technical explanations from AI generated complexity.**

[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg?style=for-the-badge)](LICENSE)

🌕 [See examples at enjalot.github.io/moonshine](https://enjalot.github.io/moonshine/)

Source-backed still examples: [The Still: Moonshine's Harness](https://enjalot.github.io/moonshine/moonshine-guide/) ([source](examples/moonshine-guide/)) and [A Map of What Children Learn](https://enjalot.github.io/moonshine/os-taxonomy-map/) ([source](examples/os-taxonomy-map/)).

AI tools generate complexity faster than people can consume it. Inspired by [Distill.pub](https://distill.pub), moonshine helps apply distillation to the flood of technical output, turning complex ideas into explorable, visual, interactive articles.

Moonshine starts with story discovery — concept, audience, the one insight the reader should walk away with — before it writes any code, and renders the article on one of two substrates:

still (/moonshine:still) — a Vite + React + Velite project where prose lives in pristine markdown and figures are React components. This is the substrate with the authoring loop (below) and the default for anything that will keep being edited.
shine (/moonshine:shine) — a single self-contained HTML file with vanilla JS and D3. No build tools; one file you can email or host anywhere.

# Claude Code
/moonshine:still how gradient descent finds minima

# Codex
$still how gradient descent finds minima

The authoring loop (still)

While `npm run dev` runs, the rendered article is itself the editing surface, for both the author and the agent:

Edit prose in place. Cmd/Ctrl+click any block to edit its raw markdown in the page; saves splice back into the .md by source offset.
Tune figures with knobs. Cmd/Ctrl+click a figure to open a panel generated from its DEFAULTS; "Save to markdown" writes the tweake