What problem does it solve? When starting a new feature or debugging a design, developers often jump into implementation before fully understanding the problem space. This Skill provides a dedicated explore mode where the AI acts as a thinking partner—investigating the codebase, visualizing architecture, and surfacing tradeoffs—without writing any implementation code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Codebase Investigation: Maps existing architecture, finds integration points, and surfaces hidden complexity relevant to the discussion. - Visual Thinking: Generates ASCII diagrams for state machines, data flows, dependency graphs, and comparison tables to clarify ideas. - OpenSpec Integration: Reads existing change proposals, designs, and specs via the openspec CLI, and offers to capture decisions into the right artifacts. - Use Case: Before building real-time collaboration, a user enters explore mode to compare presence indicators, multi-cursor coordination, and CRDT sync, then captures the chosen approach in a design document. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to enter explore mode and think through your idea or problem, for example by describing a vague feature idea or a specific technical problem you want to investigate before implementing.
