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 that investigates the codebase, visualizes options, and captures decisions as OpenSpec change artifacts without writing implementation code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Guided Discovery: Asks focused questions, challenges assumptions, and surfaces risks while grounding discussion in the actual codebase and existing OpenSpec specs. - ASCII Visualization: Draws architecture diagrams, state machines, and comparison tables in plain ASCII to clarify complex design spaces. - Change Capture: Scaffolds new changes with openspec new change and creates proposals, designs, specs, and task artifacts following CLI-provided instructions and dependency order. - Use Case: A developer considering real-time collaboration uses explore mode to map the design space, compare CRDT versus presence-based approaches, and then capture the agreed decisions into a new OpenSpec change proposal. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to enter explore mode and think through your feature idea or problem before creating an OpenSpec change proposal.
