openspec-explore

To explore ideas and investigate a codebase, you can use an AI thinking partner to analyze your existing architecture and surface hidden complexities, visualizing concepts with ASCII diagrams to clarify requirements before implementation.

Requirements clarification works by facilitating adaptive conversation that follows user-led tangents, analyzing provided ideas and codebase structures to surface insights and compare multiple options for capturing decisions.

Yes, you can visualize architecture, state, and data flows using ASCII diagrams during exploratory thinking, allowing you to clarify concepts and compare options without the pressure of immediate code implementation.

The best way to think through new feature implications is to act as a thinking partner that analyzes the potential impact on existing architecture, identifies hidden complexities, and surfaces interesting directions for requirements clarification.

Yes, design thinking with an AI partner supports the OpenSpec system for capturing decisions and requirements, ensuring that exploratory conversations and surfaced insights are documented for future reference.

You should not use an AI thinking partner when you need direct code execution or immediate implementation rather than exploratory problem-solving, as it focuses on surfacing insights and visualizing concepts rather than writing code.