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ape-help-me-understand
Digests dense content -- a post, paper, doc, or thread -- into a TLDR that keeps the numbers and caveats, a so-what naming why it matters, the key points, and an analogy with its breaking point. Trigger on "ape understand", "tldr this", "help me understand this", "give me an analogy", or when the user shares a post, paper, doc, or thread and asks to digest or summarize it. Do not trigger for plain questions that want a direct answer, not a digest.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 49 stars are split between them (about 5 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 56/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 6eef2a0775a0, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This oneape-help-me-understand arpitbbhayani/ape-skills · Skill | 56 | ★ 49 | ≈119 always | 18d ago |
| understand-chat Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything · Skill Both about understand and question | 86 | ★ 87k | ≈28 always | 23d ago |
| code-understand Ar9av/obsidian-wiki · Skill Both about understand and question | 75 | ★ 3.6k | ≈74 always | 17d ago |