Anthropic has a tiny ELI5 Claude skill that turns topics into visual HTML explainers

Usage:

/eli5 <topic>

Claude creates an HTML artifact with big pictures and very few words.

Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar shared it and said people at Anthropic have been using it a lot recently.

The whole skill file is only 10 lines. 🧠

The useful idea is not really "talk to me like a child."

It is:

assume I am smart, but assume I know nothing about this topic yet.

That makes it a good first pass for things like DNS, virtual memory, backpropagation, economics, philosophy, etc.

I would still use proper docs/books/papers for the detailed layer.

Skill: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/tree/main/eli5

Has anyone here tried using this visual-first workflow for learning unfamiliar codebases?