Coding va39e7b1 By Thariq Shihipar

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A teaching overlay for any coding session. Instead of ending with 'done,' Claude becomes a teacher whose only goal is to confirm you deeply understand what changed. It keeps a running checklist covering the problem and why it existed, the solution and its design decisions and edge cases, and the broader impact, and verifies your understanding at each step rather than dumping it all at the end. It has you restate what you think is happening first, fills the gaps, offers ELI5, ELI14, or explain-like-an-intern explanations, and quizzes you with open-ended and multiple-choice questions (correct answer shuffled, not revealed until you submit), showing you code or walking you through the debugger when it helps. The session is not finished until you can demonstrate you understood it. Works best in a harness with an interactive question tool such as Claude Code. Third-party skill, adapted from Thariq Shihipar's public gist; the variant that inspired it was Suzanne's.

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Install

Simple install — no setup required

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Download the skill file below

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Add it to Claude — pick your platform:

Claude desktop app

  1. Open the Claude desktop app
  2. Go to Code, then Customize
  3. Click Create a new skill
  4. Upload the skill file you downloaded

claude.ai (web)

  1. Go to Customize, then Skills
  2. Click +, then Create a new skill
  3. Upload the skill file you downloaded
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Say a trigger phrase to activate it

Download skill file

What Claude does with this skill

The following is the exact SKILL.md content Claude reads when this skill is active. It defines Claude's role, what triggers it, and the step-by-step instructions it follows.

The full SKILL.md for this third-party skill lives on GitHub at the pinned commit we reviewed. Open it to read the exact instructions Claude will follow.

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