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/gsd-explore

Socratic ideation and idea routing — think through ideas before committing to plans

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Install
$ npx -y skills add open-gsd/gsd-core --skill gsd-explore --agent claude-code

How 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.md
name: 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>

Ships withgsd-core

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.

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