What problem does it solve? Teams often jump into implementation before fully understanding a problem, leading to rework and misaligned designs. This Skill provides a structured thinking partner mode for exploring ideas, investigating codebases, and clarifying requirements before any code is written. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Guided Discovery: Acts as a curious thinking partner that asks focused questions, challenges assumptions, and surfaces risks without forcing a rigid workflow. - Codebase Investigation: Reads files, maps architecture, and finds integration points to ground discussions in the actual code rather than theory. - OpenSpec Integration: Checks existing changes and specs via the openspec CLI, and can scaffold new change proposals with proper artifact dependency ordering once exploration crystallizes. - Use Case: Before adding real-time collaboration to your app, use explore mode to map the collaboration spectrum, compare CRDT versus simpler presence approaches with ASCII diagrams, and only then capture the decision as an OpenSpec change proposal. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to enter explore mode and think through your feature idea or investigate a problem area in the codebase before writing any code.
