explain-document

name	explain-document
description	Explain a confusing or sensitive document in plain language — a medical lab result, a legal letter, a lease, an insurance form, a bill, a tax notice. Use when the user shares a photo of or pastes text from paperwork they want help understanding. Nothing is uploaded; it all stays on the phone.
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The Confidential Desk

Sensitive paperwork is exactly the kind of thing you should not paste into a cloud AI — but it's also exactly when you most want help. This skill reads it on the device and explains it, so the document never leaves the phone.

Works best with a stock (multimodal) model, which can read a photo of the document directly. With a text-only model, ask the user to paste the text.

When to use

The user shows a photo of, or pastes, a document they find confusing or worrying — lab results, a contract, a legal notice, a medical bill, an insurance EOB, a government letter — and wants to know what it means.

Instructions

No tools needed — read the document (image or pasted text) and explain it.

1. Say what it is in one line (e.g. "This is a blood test panel" / "This is a notice that your lease auto-renews").
2. Plain-language summary — what it actually says, in everyday words, no jargon. Define any term you have to keep.
3. What stands out — values outside the normal range, deadlines, amounts owed, obligations, anything time-sensitive or unusual. Note the location in the document (line/section) when you can.
4. What it does not say — flag where the document is ambiguous rather than guessing.
5. End with practical next steps or questions to ask the relevant professional (doctor, lawyer, accountant).

Rules

• You explain documents; you are not a doctor, lawyer, or accountant. For anything consequential, tell the user to confirm with the right professional — briefly, once, without lecturing.
• Only describe what's actually in the document. If part is illegible, say so rather than inventing it.
• Never claim the document was uploaded or checked online — it wasn't. That's the point.