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Explain Like Senior — Development skill for Claude Code

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Senior Developer Explanation.

How to install Explain Like Senior

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/notlikedev-ccplugins-explain-like-senior/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/notlikedev-ccplugins-explain-like-senior && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/notlikeDev/CCPlugins/HEAD/commands/explain-like-senior.md -o ~/.claude/skills/notlikedev-ccplugins-explain-like-senior/SKILL.md

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

What Explain Like Senior does

Senior Developer Explanation

I'll explain this code as a senior developer would, focusing on the why behind decisions.

I'll analyze the code using native tools:

Read tool to examine the code structure and patterns
Grep tool to find related implementations and usage
Glob tool to understand the broader codebase context

**Technical Context:**

Why this approach was chosen over alternatives
Trade-offs and architectural decisions made
Performance implications and considera

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