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 the codebase, compare approaches, and crystallize decisions before writing any code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Explore Mode Stance: Acts as a thinking partner that asks questions, challenges assumptions, and surfaces risks without ever writing implementation code. - Codebase Investigation: Reads files, maps architecture, finds integration points, and visualizes findings with ASCII diagrams. - OpenSpec Integration: Checks active changes via openspec list --json, reads existing artifacts, and offers to capture decisions in proposals, designs, specs, or tasks. - Use Case: Before adding real-time collaboration to your app, enter explore mode to map the collaboration spectrum (presence, cursors, CRDTs), compare tradeoffs, and then capture the chosen direction in an OpenSpec change proposal. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to enter explore mode and think through your idea or problem before creating an OpenSpec change proposal.
