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 helps you explore ideas, investigate your codebase, and clarify requirements before or during a change—without writing any code. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Explore Mode Stance: Acts as a curious, adaptive thinking partner that asks natural questions, challenges assumptions, and surfaces multiple directions instead of following a rigid script. - Codebase Investigation: Reads files, maps architecture, finds integration points, and visualizes systems with ASCII diagrams to ground discussions in reality. - OpenSpec Integration: Detects active changes via the openspec CLI, reads existing proposals/designs/specs, and offers to capture decisions in the right artifacts (proposal.md, design.md, tasks.md, specs). - Use Case: You are mid-implementation on an auth change and realize OAuth is more complex than expected. Enter explore mode to trace the flow, diagram the tangles, compare options, and update the design artifact before continuing. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to enter explore mode to think through a vague feature idea or investigate a problem in your codebase before creating a change proposal.
