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 explore mode where the AI acts as a thinking partner—investigating the codebase, visualizing architecture, and clarifying requirements—without writing any application code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Guided Exploration: Asks emergent clarifying questions, challenges assumptions, and surfaces multiple directions rather than following a fixed script. - Codebase Investigation: Maps existing architecture, finds integration points, and grounds discussions in the actual code using the openspec CLI for context. - Visualization & Comparison: Produces ASCII diagrams, state machines, and tradeoff tables to compare options like SQLite vs Postgres for a given context. - OpenSpec Integration: Reads existing change artifacts (proposal.md, design.md, tasks.md) and offers to capture decisions, new requirements, or scope changes into the right artifact. - Use Case: A developer considering real-time collaboration enters explore mode, gets a spectrum diagram of presence/cursors/CRDT approaches, discusses tradeoffs, and then captures the chosen direction in a design.md before implementation begins. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to enter explore mode to think through your idea or problem, for example by describing a vague feature idea or a specific pain point in your codebase.
