Howitworks — Development skill for Claude Code
An interactive engineering-drawing skill for Claude Code that explains mechanisms and software concepts through physical cutaways and live simulations.
How to install Howitworks
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open hariFED/howitworks and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Howitworks does
An interactive engineering-drawing skill for Claude Code that explains mechanisms and software concepts through physical cutaways and live simulations.
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howitworks
An interactive engineering-drawing skill for Claude Code that explains mechanisms and software concepts through physical cutaways and live simulations.
Website · All 21 sheets, live · Install · The kit
npx howitworks · npx skills add hariFED/howitworks · /plugin install howitworks --marketplace hariFED/howitworks
/howitworks explain how a pin tumbler lock opensThat one line becomes a real A2 engineering sheet: a section through the mechanism, details at a larger scale, true dimensions, numbered balloons, a parts list and a title block. Then **the parts move**, the dimensions re-measure themselves, and every number on the sheet comes from one physical model. Ask for `3d` and you also get a cutaway you can turn, cut open and take apart.
Who it's for
| Engineering students and educators | Explore mechanisms, forces, pressure, motion and thermodynamic cycles interactively: real sections, real dimensions, physics you can push. Boyle's law, the Otto cycle, Pascal's principle, pump curves, feedback control. |
| Developers | Understand abstract software concepts as machines: rate limiting is a cistern, back-pressure a relief valve, aut |
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