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 explore ideas, investigate the codebase, compare options, and clarify requirements without writing any application code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Exploration Stance: Acts as a curious thinking partner that asks open questions, challenges assumptions, and surfaces multiple directions instead of following a fixed script. - Codebase Investigation: Reads files, maps existing architecture, finds integration points, and visualizes findings with ASCII diagrams, state machines, and comparison tables. - OpenSpec Integration: Checks active changes via the openspec CLI, reads existing proposals, designs, and specs, and offers to capture decisions into the right artifacts (proposal.md, design.md, specs, tasks.md). - Use Case: Before building a new authentication system, enter explore mode to diagram the current auth flow, compare OAuth providers, surface risks, and then capture the agreed design decisions into an OpenSpec change proposal. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to enter explore mode and think through your idea or problem, for example by saying: explore how we should add real-time collaboration to the product before creating a change proposal.
