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 structured thinking partner mode for exploring ideas, investigating codebases, and clarifying requirements before or during a change, without writing any implementation code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Explore Mode Stance: Acts as a curious thinking partner that asks focused questions, challenges assumptions, and surfaces risks without following a fixed script. - Codebase Investigation: Reads files, searches code, and maps architecture with ASCII diagrams to ground discussions in the actual system. - OpenSpec Integration: Checks existing changes via the openspec CLI, scaffolds new changes with openspec new change, and captures decisions into proposals, designs, specs, and tasks only after explicit user confirmation. - Use Case: A developer considering real-time collaboration can explore the design space, compare CRDT versus simpler presence approaches with diagrams, and then capture the decision as an OpenSpec change proposal once the thinking crystallizes. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to enter explore mode and think through whether your planned feature should use SQLite or Postgres before creating an OpenSpec change proposal.
