Explain

Keeps the principal up on the fundamentals of what is going on across the principal's projects, work and technical infrastructure, deeply and thoroughly. The principal lives inside many systems at once and cannot hold all of them in mind, so this skill teaches the topic in front of them, explains the parts of any area that it cannot lose, and quizzes the principal so gaps show up before they cost anything. It absorbed the Teach skill on 2026-10-16, when the principal asked for these intents and for any existing teaching skill to be merged in rather than duplicated.

Ideal State

• The principal leaves each session able to explain or apply the material, shown by the principal's own answers, not by how much was printed.
• What he is told about a project, area or piece of infra is true of it today: read this session from the live source, never recalled.
• Over time the skill knows where his understanding is thin, because every quiz answer is on the record, and each new quiz goes after the misses and whatever changed since he was last tested.

Intent Routing

Intent	Trigger	File
Teach	"teach me", "/tm", "/teach-me", "tutorial", "quiz me" on what we just covered	Intents/Teach.md
ExplainFundamentals	"/ef", "explain the fundamentals of", "catch me up on", "how does X actually work"	Intents/ExplainFundamentals.md
QuizFundamentals	"/qf", "quiz me on the fundamentals of", "test what I know about", "am I still current on"	Intents/QuizFundamentals.md

File	Read when
Setup.md	first-time setup: the voice server and Fish key the spoken narration needs, and a read-only check

Teach works on the conversation topic as a spoken dialogue. ExplainFundamentals and QuizFundamentals work on a standing area (a project, a work stream, a system) whether or not we touched it this session, and share one set of fundamentals per area so the quiz tests what the explanation taught.

Gotchas

• "Quiz me" means two things. Right after a lesson or a piece of work, it is Teach's quiz protocol on that material. Naming an area ("quiz me on the billing service", "/qf the network") is QuizFundamentals, which reads the live source and the record of past answers.
• The e shortcut is not this skill. It explains my last answer more, and more simply; /ef explains an area's fundamentals.

Examples

Example 1: Teach the thing we just built

User: "teach me" (after a session debugging DNS records)
→ Teach intent
→ Spoken intro, a concept map of 3-5 ideas, one beat and one question per turn
→ Ends with a 2-3 question quiz and a recap diagram

Example 2: Explain an area's fundamentals

User: "/ef billing service"
→ ExplainFundamentals intent
→ Reads its projects-table row, the project ISA and its code layout this session
→ The fundamentals by the "without X it can no longer ___" test, each with what it connects to, one flow diagram, what changed lately

Example 3: Quiz on fundamentals

User: "/qf home network"
→ QuizFundamentals intent
→ Reads the live sources and the learning record, asks 5 application questions one per turn, weighted to past misses
→ Each answer gets a verdict against the source and is appended to the STATVS learning stream