what-the

What the? Use when the user wants a plain-English breakdown of something technical — the who, what, where, why, and when.

2.1K installs 93K starsUpdated Sep 3, 2026License: Apache-2.0

Install

npx skills add thedotmack/claude-mem@what-the

Runs in your terminal. Adds the skill globally for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and others; add -g -y to skip prompts.

What it does

that sounds mad technical. explain to me the who, what, where, why, and when of this

Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.

View source on GitHub

Before you install

Skills are plain text instructions the agent follows, sometimes with scripts. Check the source, prefer repositories with many installs and stars, and read any script it ships.

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