running-exploration-cycle SKILL.md skillA
running-exploration-cycle from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/running-exploration-cycle@git:20261024.3106a82Pins git:20261024.3106a82 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- richfrem/agent-plugins-skills
- Path
plugins/agent-exploration-cycle/.apm/skills/running-exploration-cycle/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261024.3106a82, committed Oct 24, 2026
- Size
- 4,750 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- MIT
Runs the business exploration cycle end to end: starts or resumes a session (intake interview, session brief), enforces the Discovery Plan HARD-GATE, routes the four phases (Discovery Plan, Visual Blueprinting, Prototype, Handoff) to the sibling skills and keeps session state. Use when the user says "let's explore this idea", "I have an idea I want to explore", "help me plan this out", "start discovery", "resume my exploration", "where did we leave off", or starts any conversation about a…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Running the Exploration Cycle Front door and conductor of the exploration plugin. Process: [process-overview.mmd](references/process-overview.mmd) and [process-definition.md](references/process-definition.md). ## Contents - [Constraints](#constraints) • [Quick start](#quick-start) • [Workflow](#workflow) • [Verification](#verification) • [References](#references) ## Constraints - **HARD-GATE**: no capture, prototype or handoff work until the SME has approved the Discovery Plan (`PLAN_STATUS: APPROVED` or `## SME Approval`); a DRAFT never counts. Use the redirect in [hard-gate-enforcement.md](references/hard-gate-enforcement.md) verbatim, offer no workaround. - **State**: the SQLite state engine is authoritative; `exploration/exploration-dashboard.md` is a read-only projection. Never rely on conversation memory for a gate. If you were dispatched as a subagent, skip this skill. - **One question at a time**, in the SME's business language (no git, branch or subagent jargon). - **Routing**: an existing working prototype goes to `reengineering-vibe-code`; technical codebase discovery goes to `handing-off-to-engineering`. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/running-exploration-cycle@sha256:03f95ae75b2232e6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261024.3106a82, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 24, 2026.
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Source
richfrem/agent-plugins-skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_va4e6pscj6viqqgm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/running-exploration-cycle GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/03f95ae75b2232e626b6cebb99419433903bcddfa504e7643f937e253d86c855
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.