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 explore mode where the AI acts as a thinking partner—investigating the codebase, visualizing options with ASCII diagrams, and clarifying requirements—without writing any implementation code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Exploration stance: Asks open questions, challenges assumptions, compares options with tradeoff tables, and visualizes architectures using ASCII diagrams. - OpenSpec integration: Reads project context via the openspec CLI, scaffolds new changes with openspec new change, and captures decisions into proposals, designs, specs, and task artifacts. - Guardrails against premature coding: Never implements features during exploration; offers to capture insights into OpenSpec artifacts only when the user decides. - Use Case: A developer considering real-time collaboration can explore the spectrum from presence indicators to CRDTs, review the existing codebase for integration points, and then crystallize the outcome into a change proposal. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to enter explore mode to think through adding a new feature, investigate a messy subsystem, or compare design options before creating an OpenSpec change proposal.
