eli5

A plugin for creating standalone HTML explainers that teach difficult ideas through interactive models, analogies, animations, and embedded visual assets.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build interactive educational pages with model-based diagrams, animations, reduced-motion support, and bundled libraries or generated media.
Why use it?
It gives the page a structure suited to the idea being taught and requires explanations to show where analogies stop being accurate.

Plugin for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins
agentmods
npx agentmods add plugins/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins/eli5
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session not measured What this adds to a session before it is invoked.
When invoked not measured Not applicable: nothing here is loaded into a session.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Security

Grade A, and why

eli5 scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/eli5/.claude-plugin/plugin.json · 10 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 10 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{
  "name": "eli5",
  "description": "Build an interactive, self-contained HTML explainer that makes a hard idea genuinely click - a thing you operate, not a document you read. Lets the mechanism pick the shape of the page from eight that recur (Machine, Field, Solid, Ladder, Fork, Trace, Assembly, Reveal) rather than giving every topic the same tabs, and commits to a palette and type pairing of its own. Grounded in the cognitive science of how people form mental models: a structure-mapping analogy carrying the boundary where it stops being true, a Predict-Observe-Explain beat where the reader commits a guess before the reveal, and readouts inside the diagram rather than beside it. Inlines Three.js when a flat projection loses the invariant, GSAP when a state change moves several things in order or a Reveal scrubs on scroll, a Remotion-rendered clip when the sequence is too expensive to compute live, and generated imagery from media-gen-pro - all embedded, never from a CDN. Fails the build on an artifact that draws with SVG and CSS alone unless the choice is declared, since four in a row did. Ships a scaffold that wires the theme tokens, reduced-motion path, markers and libraries in one command, fetching each library once from a pinned checksummed URL rather than a CDN the reader would load. Routes charts through the dataviz skill first. A deterministic linter fails the build on external assets, missing viewBox, uncaptured pointer drags, leaked animation frames, motion with no reduced-motion path, buried analogy limits, absent prediction beats, thin visuals, single-mode interaction, prose over budget, condescending register and copied template headings. Use for \"/eli5 <topic>\", \"explain how X works\", \"make me an explainer for Y\", \"I still don't get Z\". Names its reader as a curious sixteen-year-old rather than a peer, and fails the build on a topic-specific term used without a definition - the failure a baby-talk detector cannot see - on placeholder nouns an

Read the full file on GitHub · 10 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 10 lines scan A 876247b3ee4b

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eli5 is a plugin published in the GitHub repository fledgeling-co/fledgeling-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. Its token cost is not measured: this kind of file is read by the harness, not the model. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.