/gsd-explore
Socratic ideation and idea routing — think through ideas before committing to plans
$ npx -y skills add open-gsd/gsd-core --skill gsd-explore --agent claude-codeHow it fires
How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.
- Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
- You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
- Slash command
/gsd-explore
Context preview
The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.
Socratic ideation and idea routing — think through ideas before committing to plans
SKILL.md
gsd-explore.SKILL.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 skills on gsd-core.
- /gsd-add-tests
Generate tests for a completed phase based on UAT criteria and implementation
Open skill - /gsd-ai-integration-phase
Generate an AI-SPEC.md design contract for phases that involve building AI systems.
Open skill - /gsd-audit-fix
Autonomous audit-to-fix pipeline — find issues, classify, fix, test, commit
Open skill - /gsd-audit-milestone
Audit milestone completion against original intent before archiving
Open skill - /gsd-audit-uat
Cross-phase audit of all outstanding UAT and verification items
Open skill - /gsd-autonomous
Run all remaining phases autonomously — discuss→plan→execute per phase
Open skill

