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title: "Explain Code - Air Market"
description: "You are looking at code you did not write and the shape of it is not obvious from reading. This explains how it works using diagrams and everyday comparisons instead of more code. Reach for it when y…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/explain-code"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Explain Code

Skill by [Adobe, Inc.](/@adobe)

# Explain Code

Understand unfamiliar code through pictures and comparisons

## What this does

You are looking at code you did not write and the shape of it is not obvious from reading. This explains how it works using diagrams and everyday comparisons instead of more code. Reach for it when you want to ask "how does this work?" and get an answer you can picture, or when you are finding your footing in a codebase that is new to you.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Ask how a piece of code actually works
- Get a diagram of what's going on
- Learn your way around a new codebase

## Information

**Explain Code at a glance**

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| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Adobe, Inc.](/@adobe) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 772 bytes |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [adobe/spectrum-web-components](https://github.com/adobe/spectrum-web-components/tree/bc49da37949a08f6627248dc63c2c556f460f820/.ai/skills/explain-code) |
| GitHub stars | 1,529 (as of Nov 2026) |
| Installs | 10, counted by skills.sh (Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Explain Code and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Explain Code's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | bc49da37949a08f6627248dc63c2c556f460f820 |
| Content hash | 2b87ec0fe0355c9b6a594707f0e2747eb0690556fb95ed8f8fcb3fcdc4073211 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/adobe/spectrum-web-components/blob/bc49da37949a08f6627248dc63c2c556f460f820/.ai/skills/explain-code/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Explain Code](/security/explain-code)

## About Explain Code

This explains how code works, using visual diagrams and analogies rather than plain description.

Use it when you are asking how something works, or when you are getting to know a codebase and want it taught to you rather than listed.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Explain Code safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Explain Code and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit bc49da37949a, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/explain-code.

### How do I install Explain Code?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/explain-code on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/adobe/spectrum-web-components/tree/bc49da37949a08f6627248dc63c2c556f460f820/.ai/skills/explain-code. Install from that link, not the branch.

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