explore-options

explore-options is a command for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 32 tokens per session (436 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for comparing several distinct product or interface concepts before choosing one. It produces a set of concepts and a decision record.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for exploring product, user-interface, and user-flow alternatives, then documenting the choice.
Why use it?
It sets decision criteria first, tests each option for usability, and records why one was selected over the others.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the prototyping-testing plugin — 10 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit It is for exploring product, user-interface, and user-flow alternatives, then documenting the choice.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/owl-listener/designer-skills/explore-options
About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,572 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install prototyping-testing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 4 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 436 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00436
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00218
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash 3b6988aa4cad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore-options scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

prototyping-testing/commands/explore-options.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

/explore-options

Run a parallel exploration end to end — frame the decision, build a spread of behaviourally distinct concepts, pressure-test each, and converge with a decision record.

Steps

  1. Frame the decision — State what this exploration has to settle and fix the criteria that will decide it, before any concept exists, using concept-selection skill.
  2. Set the spread — Decide how many concepts the stakes justify and which behavioural dimension they must differ on, using parallel-concepts skill.
  3. Draft each concept — Specify structure, content priority, and annotations for every concept at matched fidelity, using wireframe-spec skill.
  4. Trace the difference — Map each concept's user path and confirm the paths actually diverge; collapse any two that do not, using user-flow-diagram skill.
  5. Pressure-test — Evaluate every concept against usability heuristics on its own terms before any comparison, using heuristic-evaluation skill.
  6. Converge — Apply the criteria from step 1, choose one concept, and record what each rejected concept was testing and what would bring it back, using concept-selection skill.

Output

A concept set and a decision record. The set contains each concept at matched fidelity with its wireframe spec, user flow, and heuristic findings. The record states the criteria fixed in step 1, the chosen concept and what it gives up, and one entry per rejected concept covering what it tested, what it lost on, and its revival condition. The designer takes the chosen concept into detailed design and keeps the record as the answer to "why not the other way". Consider following up with /test-plan to validate the chosen concept with users before committing to build.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 17 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 3b6988aa4cad

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explore-options is a command published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,572 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 436 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.