In short:
ak-brotakes the AI's message right before it and says it again the way a person would: short, clear, no jargon. It keeps warnings, doubts and the things you need to do. It adds no new ideas, runs no commands and edits no files; to ask about a different topic, useak-explain.
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Summary
Use it when the AI has just replied with a long, jargon-heavy block and you still do not understand what is going on. You do not need it to ask about a new concept or a new piece of code: that is what ak-explain is for.
flowchart LR
A["Hard-to-read AI answer"] --> B["ak-bro"]
B --> C["Short, plain restatement"]
C --> D["You decide the next step"]
E["Question on a new topic"] --> F["ak-explain"]Three things to know:
| Point | Question | Example |
|---|---|---|
| One source only | What does it rewrite? | Only the AI message right before /ak-bro. An answer three messages back is left alone. |
| Keep what matters, drop the rest | Does shorter mean losing something important? | It keeps "not sure of the cause" and "back up the DB before running". It drops "I read 5 files, then ran grep...". Jargon it cannot drop gets a short plain-word explanation. |
| Restate, do not act | If the old message says to run a command, does it run it? | The previous message proposed "run the migration". The restatement still says you need to run the migration, but it runs nothing. |
Sample prompt, typed right after the hard-to-read answer:
/ak-broThis skill has no flags.
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- Version
- v1.0.0
- Updated
- 22/10/2026
- Licence
- All rights reserved
- Slug
- ak-bro
