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title: "scrimba-explain"
description: "Scrimba Video Explainer: ask your agent to explain anything as an instant video: a concept, a document, an architecture, a codebase, a git branch or PR. Generated live with narration, animations, diagrams, maths, and cod"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/scrimba-explain
last-updated: 2026-10-02
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# scrimba-explain
Scrimba Video Explainer: ask your agent to explain anything as an instant video: a concept, a document, an architecture, a codebase, a git branch or PR. Generated live with narration, animations, diagrams, maths, and code, at a shareable scrimba.com link.
- Slug: scrimba-explain
- Publisher: Scrimba
- Repository: https://github.com/scrimba/explainer-mcp-plugin
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 0.1.2
- Category (editorial): creative-media
- Skills: 1 (explain)
- MCP servers: 1 (scrimba-explain)
- Stars: 2
- Repository created: 2026-08-12
- Repository last pushed: 2026-08-18
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/scrimba-explain
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What scrimba-explain does, in the publisher's words

Connects your agent to Explain by Scrimba: ask your agent to explain anything, a concept, a document, a process, a codebase, an architecture, a git branch or PR, and a narrated slideshow is generated with animations, diagrams, maths, images, code diffs, and more, rendered live at a shareable scrimba.com link.

Try prompts like:

- "Turn my study notes into a video"
- "Explain how OAuth works, with diagrams"
- "Make a video walkthrough of this PR for my colleague"

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scrimba/explainer-mcp-plugin/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- explain: Create a Scrimba video explainer: an instantly generated video with narration, animations, mermaid diagrams, LaTeX maths, and precisely composed code walkthroughs, rendered live on scrimba.com. Use when the user wants something explained visually or as a video, or asks for an explainer or walkthro…

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- scrimba-explain: transport: streamable-http; url: https://scrimba.com/mcp/explain

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.