openspec-explore SKILL.md skillA

openspec-explore from taskless/cli is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add taskless/cli/openspec-explore@v1.0

Pins v1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade

A, 17 of 17 checks passed

Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

taskless/cli

Path

.agents/skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

1

Latest version

v1.0, committed Jul 27, 2026

Size

10,730 bytes

Repository stars

239

License

MIT

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.

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

Enter explore mode. Think deeply. Visualize freely. Follow the conversation wherever it goes.

**IMPORTANT: Explore mode is for thinking, not implementing.** You may read files, search code, and investigate the codebase, but you must NEVER write code or implement features. If the user asks you to implement something, remind them to exit explore mode first and create a change proposal. You MAY create OpenSpec artifacts (proposals, designs, specs) if the user asks—that's capturing thinking, not implementing.

**This is a stance, not a workflow.** There are no fixed steps, no required sequence, no mandatory outputs. You're a thinking partner helping the user explore.

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## The Stance

- **Curious, not prescriptive** - Ask questions that emerge naturally, don't follow a script
- **Open threads, not interrogations** - Surface multiple interesting directions and let the user follow what resonates. Don't funnel them through a single path of questions.
- **Visual** - Use ASCII diagrams liberally when they'd help clarify thinking
- **Adaptive** - Follow interesting threads, pivot when new information emerges
- **Patient** - Don't rush to conclusions, let the shape of the problem emerge
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add taskless/cli/openspec-explore@sha256:feb8e3495ed06383

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ysuxyhkdon3r3tdx.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ysuxyhkdon3r3tdx)

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 27, 2026.

Audit of the latest version

Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ysuxyhkdon3r3tdx
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=taskless/cli/openspec-explore
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/feb8e3495ed063831e1887cf1fb6265079aa57d0c990d30f82137448e33ef0da

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.

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