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understanding-ladder
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Pick the output format that makes an explanation easiest to understand, following Karpathy's understanding ladder — (1) plain controlled text, (2) diagram, (3) interactive HTML page, (4) 3Blue1Brown-style explainer video. Classify the content (definition/steps, process/causality, parameter→outcome, unfolding derivation), recommend the lowest rung that fully answers, then produce it. Works in English and Chinese. Use when the user says "explain this clearly", "help me understand", "draw a diagram", "make it interactive", "make an explainer video", "what's the best way to explain X", "understand
Why this score
This repo hosts 2 skills, so its 108 stars are split between them (about 54 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 63/100 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
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This oneunderstanding-ladder ChangWenC/understanding-ladder · Skill | 63 | ★ 108 | ≈155 always | 29d ago |
| bilisum-video-understanding lycohana/BiliSum · Skill Both about understanding and video | 73 | ★ 641 | ≈76 always | 2mo ago |
| check-understanding rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch · Skill Both about understanding | 90 | ★ 71k | ≈46 always | 16d ago |
| Agentic video understanding ericosiu/ai-marketing-skills · Skill Both about understanding and video | 71 | ★ 3.7k | ≈27 always | 1mo ago |
| video-understanding zenstory-ai/video-recap-skills · Skill Both about understanding and video | 64 | ★ 582 | ≈72 always | 20d ago |
| understanding-hot-reload-limits skydoves/compose-performance-skills · Skill Both about understanding | 54 | ★ 516 | ≈158 always | 5mo ago |