How to Generate Simple AI Explanations and Visuals in Claude
You can use a plugin shortcut in Claude to turn confusing topics into straightforward summaries paired with visual diagrams. This approach gives you an accessible overview of complex subjects or technical issues before diving into deeper details.
Try it yourself
- 1Add the official community plugin marketplace to your local Claude environment via the command interface.
- 2Install the ELI5 plugin from the community repository.
- 3Run the command /eli5 followed by the topic, module, or incident you need simplified.
Copy this prompt
/eli5 [INSERT TOPIC OR QUESTION TO EXPLAIN]
The Blend
An employee at Anthropic shared a popular internal prompt shortcut designed to make complex information easier to digest in the Claude AI assistant. As posted on X by Thariq, staff members frequently use a simplified explanation command to break down tricky technical subjects. The shortcut instructs the model to create a visual web page featuring basic wording and large diagrams, helping users grasp unfamiliar concepts quickly.
This approach offers a quick entry point for understanding complicated software code, system outages, or architectural decisions before jumping into dense technical details. Anthropic has made the shortcut available to the public through a community plugin repository, allowing anyone to install it for their own daily workflows. Instead of sifting through walls of text, users can instantly view a lightweight visual summary that highlights core ideas.
However, the tool highlights an ongoing debate about how AI assistants communicate by default. Some observers on social media noted that spending extra tokens to simplify an overly verbose response feels like fixing a problem the AI created in the first place. It remains to be seen whether Anthropic will build this visual simplification directly into Claude as a standard feature, or if users will always need custom add-ons to avoid dense text answers.
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Ingredients
- Thariq on X: "a skill people at Anthropic have been using a lot recently: ELI5
/eli5 <what you want explained>
"explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words"" / X
Anthropic employees are using a custom plugin shortcut to convert complex technical questions into simple visual web pages inside Claude.