explanatory-output-style
Adds educational insights about implementation choices and codebase patterns (mimics the deprecated Explanatory output style)
Install
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- Category
- Learning
- Author
- Anthropic
Good for
- Have Claude explain its implementation choices while coding
- Explain patterns, conventions and trade-offs in your codebase
- Replace the deprecated Explanatory output style setting
Getting started
- Run /plugin install explanatory-output-style@claude-plugins-official in Claude Code
- Start a new session; it activates automatically through a SessionStart hook with no configuration
- Ask Claude to code as usual and look for the ★ Insight blocks before and after the code
Before you install
It adds instructions to every session and produces extra output, which costs additional tokens.
Summarized by AI from the project docs; check the official docs before relying on it.
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Source anthropics/claude-plugins-official · Updated Oct 11, 2026 · All rights belong to the original creators