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 surface risks before committing to a change proposal. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Explore Mode Stance: Acts as a thinking partner that asks questions, challenges assumptions, and visualizes concepts with ASCII diagrams, without writing any implementation code. - OpenSpec Integration: Reads existing changes, specs, and project context via the openspec CLI, and offers to capture decisions into proposals, designs, specs, or task lists. - Codebase Grounding: Investigates actual code to map architecture, find integration points, and surface hidden complexity relevant to the discussion. - Use Case: Before adding real-time collaboration to your app, enter explore mode to compare presence indicators, cursor sharing, and CRDT approaches, then capture the chosen direction in a design artifact. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to enter explore mode and think through an idea or problem, for example by describing a vague feature idea or a specific technical problem you want to investigate.
