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openspec-explore

Enter explore mode - a thinking partner for exploring ideas, investigating problems, and clarifying requirements. Use when the user wants to think through something before or during a change.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, actionable instruction-only skill that gives Claude concrete commands, file paths, and example dialogues for an explicitly non-linear 'stance'. Its main weakness is token weight: the four large ASCII example dialogues and some redundant guardrails could be tightened or externalized.

Suggestions

Trim or consolidate the four ASCII-art entry-point examples (e.g., keep one representative dialogue and summarize the others) to reduce token weight and push conciseness up.

Deduplicate the 'Don't implement' guidance, which appears both in the intro IMPORTANT block and again in the Guardrails section.

Consider moving the lengthy entry-point example dialogues into a references/ file, referenced one level deep from the body, to bring progressive_disclosure to 5 and further cut SKILL.md tokens.

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Conciseness

Mostly efficient prose that assumes Claude's competence, but the four large ASCII-art entry-point examples and repeated guardrails ('Don't implement' appears in both the intro and Guardrails) consume meaningful tokens that could be trimmed, fitting 'mostly efficient but includes some unnecessary explanation or could be tightened'; it is not 2 because the content is not padded with concepts Claude already knows.

3 / 5

Actionability

Provides concrete executable guidance throughout: a specific command ('openspec list --json'), exact artifact paths to read, a capture-location table, ready-made offer phrases, and full example dialogues for each entry point; it is not 5 because the example dialogues are illustrative rather than copy-paste-ready artifacts.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The 'When a change exists' branch lays out a clear 4-step numbered sequence with a capture table, and the read-only nature of the skill means no destructive-validation checkpoints are required (the destructive/batch cap does not apply); it is not 5 because the overall stance is deliberately non-linear, so explicit validation/feedback checkpoints are absent by design.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

A single well-organized SKILL.md with clear section headers (Stance, What You Might Do, OpenSpec Awareness, Entry Points, Ending, Guardrails) and no nested references; it is not 5 because the file is ~280 lines (well over the 50-line simple-skill threshold) and the long entry-point example dialogues could arguably live in a separate reference file.

4 / 5

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Description

62%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description clearly conveys both purpose and trigger conditions and is well-targeted to the OpenSpec explore-mode niche. Its main weakness is that the stated capabilities are abstract activities rather than concrete operations, which keeps specificity and trigger-term quality at the midpoint.

Suggestions

Replace abstract activity verbs ('exploring ideas, investigating problems') with more concrete operations (e.g., 'maps existing architecture, surfaces tradeoffs, reframes requirements') to lift specificity.

Add more natural trigger synonyms users would actually say ('brainstorm', 'talk through', 'whiteboard an idea', 'spike') to broaden trigger-term coverage.

Tighten the 'what' clause into concrete trigger phrases mirroring the 'when' clause to push completeness toward 5.

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Specificity

Names the domain ('explore mode', 'thinking partner') and three activities ('exploring ideas, investigating problems, and clarifying requirements'), but these are abstract activities rather than concrete operations, matching the 'names domain and 1-2 concrete actions but not comprehensive' anchor; it does not reach 4 because the actions are conceptual, not specific executable operations.

3 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both 'what' ('a thinking partner for exploring ideas, investigating problems, and clarifying requirements') and 'when' ('Use when the user wants to think through something before or during a change'), with the 'when' clause explicit and concrete; it falls short of 5 because the 'what' is stated abstractly rather than as concrete trigger phrases.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural phrases like 'think through something' and 'before or during a change' alongside 'exploring'/'investigating', but coverage of common variations and synonyms is limited, fitting 'some relevant keywords but missing common variations'.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The OpenSpec 'explore mode' niche and 'think through something before or during a change' trigger are fairly distinct from other skills, with only minor overlap risk against generic brainstorming; it is not 5 because the trigger is conceptually broad enough to overlap with general planning skills.

4 / 5

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Validation

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Validation16 / 16 Passed

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