/explore
Socratic ideation and idea routing — think through ideas before committing to plans
> /plugin marketplace add open-gsd/gsd-core > /plugin install gsd-core@gsd-core
How it fires
How this command gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfClaude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/explore
Context preview
What this command does when you run it.
Socratic ideation and idea routing — think through ideas before committing to plans
Command definition
explore.mdname: gsd:explore description: Socratic ideation and idea routing — think through ideas before committing to plans allowed-tools: - Read - Write - Bash - Grep - Glob - Agent - AskUserQuestion
<objective> Open-ended Socratic ideation session. Guides the developer through exploring an idea via probing questions, optionally spawns research, then routes outputs to the appropriate GSD artifacts (notes, todos, seeds, research questions, requirements, or new phases).
Accepts an optional topic argument: `/gsd:explore authentication strategy` </objective>
<execution_context> @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/explore.md </execution_context>
<process> Execute end-to-end. </process>
Git. Ship. Done. A light-weight meta-prompting, context engineering, and spec-driven development system for Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Kimi CLI, Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.
Repo: open-gsd/gsd-core
Other commands on gsd-core.
- /add-tests
Generate tests for a completed phase based on UAT criteria and implementation
Open command - /ai-integration-phase
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Open command - /audit-fix
Autonomous audit-to-fix pipeline — find issues, classify, fix, test, commit
Open command - /audit-milestone
Audit milestone completion against original intent before archiving
Open command - /audit-uat
Cross-phase audit of all outstanding UAT and verification items
Open command - /autonomous
Run all remaining phases autonomously — discuss→plan→execute per phase
Open command

