What problem does it solve? Teams often jump into implementation before fully understanding a problem, leading to rework and misaligned requirements. This Skill provides a dedicated thinking mode where you can investigate ideas, map existing architecture, and compare approaches without writing any application code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Explore Mode Stance: Acts as a curious thinking partner that asks open questions, surfaces multiple directions, and visualizes concepts with ASCII diagrams instead of following a fixed script. - Codebase Investigation: Reads files, maps architecture, finds integration points, and grounds discussions in the actual code rather than theory. - OpenSpec Integration: Checks active changes via the openspec CLI, reads existing proposals and designs, and offers to capture decisions into specs, design.md, tasks.md, or proposal.md artifacts. - Use Case: Before building a real-time collaboration feature, enter explore mode to diagram the spectrum from presence indicators to CRDTs, compare tradeoffs, and then crystallize the decision into an OpenSpec change proposal. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to enter explore mode to think through a feature idea or investigate a problem in the current codebase before creating a change proposal.
