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A CLAUDE.md rules file that tells Claude Code to explain outputs like you're five.
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explain-like-iam-five-rules started from frustration: the creator says they were getting burned out reading AI outputs, so they wrote a single rule — Explain Like I'm Five (ELI5) — to get simpler answers. That rule lives inside a CLAUDE.md file, the rules file that Claude Code reads automatically at the start of every session.
Setting it up takes two steps: download the CLAUDE.md file, then ask Claude to apply it into ~/.claude. Placing it in the user-level ~/.claude folder applies the ELI5 rule to every project, while adding it to a specific /.claude folder scopes the rule to that project alone.
The source does not describe any rules beyond ELI5. It also does not mention pricing, licensing, or whether the file works with AI tools other than Claude Code, so anyone evaluating it should check the GitHub repository directly for those details.
It's a single instruction packaged in a CLAUDE.md file that tells Claude Code to explain its outputs more simply, written after the creator found dense AI answers tiring to read.
Add the CLAUDE.md file to that project's own /.claude folder; using the user-level ~/.claude folder instead applies the rule to all projects.
