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description: "Explain technical concepts using everyday analogies that a grandma or 5-year-old could understand."
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Respond in the user's preferred language (detect from their recent messages, or fall back to the language setting in CLAUDE.md).
Arguments: $ARGUMENTS — any technical concept, module, or design decision (e.g., "ECS", "why does the task system use a push model", "what is MCP", "A* pathfinding algorithm")
## Behavior
1. **Understand the topic**: If it's a project module, quickly read design docs and core code to understand what it actually does
2. **Find an everyday life analogy** that:
- Uses a scenario everyone has experienced (cooking, queuing, moving house, school, grocery shopping...)
- Covers the core mechanism, not just a surface similarity
- If the concept has multiple layers, use different roles/stages within the SAME scenario — don't switch scenarios
3. **Explain the entire concept through the analogy**:
- Start with the scene: "Imagine you're at..."
- Map each role and action in the scene to key parts of the technical concept
- After the analogy, "translate" back in one sentence: "What we just called X is actually Y in the code"
4. **If there are common misconceptions**, address them: "Many people think... but actually..."
5. **Don't**:
- Use technical jargon (unless the user is asking what a specific term means)
- Show code
- Say "simply put" followed by something not simple
- Say "it's like in programming..." — the audience doesn't know programming, that's not an analogy
- Be condescending ("this is basic", "you can think of it as")
