openspec-explore - Explore ideas and clarify change requirements
Provides a thinking-partner mode for exploring ideas, investigating codebases, comparing approaches, and clarifying requirements without implementing code.
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Updated: 2026-10-01Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Ask clarifying questions
- Investigate the codebase
- Compare implementation approaches
- Visualize system flows
- Surface risks and unknowns
- Create OpenSpec artifacts
- Read project context
- Manage change metadata
Inputs
- User ideas and questions
- Codebase files
- OpenSpec store selection
- Project context files
- Change name
- Artifact requests
Outputs
- Exploration discussion
- ASCII diagrams
- Comparison tables
- OpenSpec proposal files
- OpenSpec design files
- OpenSpec specification files
- OpenSpec task files
- Change status
Requirements
- OpenSpec CLI
- Bash command access
- Registered store access when selected