Code Explainer
Understand any PR or Repo, even if you don't write code
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Code Explainer - Understand any PR or Repo, even if you don't write code

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Point it at any merged PR. Get a plain-English explanation of what changed and why — calibrated to whoever's reading — plus an interactive CLI quiz to check it stuck. No separate API key required.

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Hey PH 👋 I kept noticing the same pattern: on small teams, code is the only thing that's actually true — docs rot, Slack answers vary by who you ask — but most people who need to know what shipped can't read a diff. So "go check the code" was never really an option for them. pr-explainer is my attempt to close that gap. Point it at any PR, get an explanation pitched at you specifically — technical or not. Two things I'd love feedback on: 1. Does the explanation quality hold up on YOUR repos? Try pr-explainer and tell me what it gets wrong. 2. The quiz questions at the end are new — trying to figure out if that's genuinely useful or just noise. Curious what you think. Repo's open source:

the fact that it calibrates the explanation to whoever's reading is genuinely smart, like that's the kind of detail most tools completely skip. clean execution overall.

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Thank you so much! Hope it helps you decode what your engineering teams are shipping!

Love that the quiz adapts to whoever's reading — that's the kind of detail that turns a one-off explanation into something the whole team can actually use.

Maker

 exactly - that’s the UX that I wanted to build.

Opening up GitHub to non tech folks :)

super cool product! will share it with my team where we often have cross team collaboration!

Maker

 ooh thanks so much! Do share the feedback from you team ✨🎊