What problem does it solve? When facing a decision with an unmapped option space, teams often jump to a single solution too early or produce shallow brainstorms. This Skill scaffolds divergent thinking by generating genuinely distinct alternatives, surfacing unknowns, and challenging assumptions before any commitment is made. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Option Generation: Produces an option table with id, name, premise, cheapest proof, and biggest risk for each alternative. - Unknown and Assumption Surfacing: Identifies the three highest-leverage unknowns with cheap tests and three assumptions that may not hold. - Failure-Condition Self-Checks: Detects duplicate options, vague "it depends" reasoning, premature recommendations, and missing unknowns before emitting output. - Use Case: A team deciding how to scale their API invokes /exploration with their objective, constraints, and assumptions, and receives a table of distinct architectural options with cheap validation tests instead of a premature recommendation. ## Quick Start Ask Claude to run /exploration with your decision objective, known constraints, current assumptions, evidence base, and excluded paths to receive a structured option table with unknowns and assumption challenges.
