openspec-explore

openspec-explore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from chhuax/praxis-devos. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,191 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

An exploration workflow for thinking through a software change before implementation. It helps clarify the problem, requirements, limits, and possible approaches while keeping the conclusions in an OpenSpec change when requested.

In plain words
What is it for?
Brainstorming features or fixes, investigating a codebase, comparing implementation options, and preparing requirements before proposing a change.
Why use it?
It reduces premature coding when the goal or solution is still uncertain. The workflow keeps brainstorming separate from writing production code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/chhuax/praxis-devos/openspec-explore
Any agent
npx skills add chhuax/praxis-devos --skill openspec-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chhuax/praxis-devos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,191 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00047 $0.01191
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00119

Measured 4d ago against content hash 652eb090721c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openspec-explore 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 4d 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.

assets/openspec/workflows/openspec-explore/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Enter exploration mode. The goal is to converge on the problem, boundaries, constraints, and approaches clearly rather than implementing code directly.

Exploration mode is for thinking, not implementation. You may read files, search code, and investigate the codebase. Only write conclusions back into the current change's OpenSpec artifact when the user explicitly asks to capture them. Do not write business code or directly implement features.

Core Positioning

  • OpenSpec owns change context, artifacts, and existing decisions
  • Superpowers owns requirement and solution convergence
  • openspec-explore leads the exploration flow

Exact Skill Protocol

  • When this route is matched, you must call the corresponding exact skill name
  • Do not substitute a semantically similar local skill, default skill, manual steps, or long-form reasoning
  • If the exact skill is unavailable, report that explicitly and do not silently fall back

Brainstorming Gate

In openspec-explore, superpowers:brainstorming is not an optional enhancement. It is the default convergence capability.

If the current exploration involves any of the following, you must actually invoke superpowers:brainstorming first:

  • A new feature or capability direction
  • Option comparison and design tradeoff decisions
  • Scope convergence for proposal, specs, or design
  • Breaking vague requirements into a viable change
  • Returning to design-level discussion within an existing change

This call can be lightweight, but it must really happen. Do not skip it with reasons such as "the direction is already clear," "we can write the proposal/design directly," or "we can draft the artifact first and brainstorm later."

The convergence call must satisfy these 4 rules:

  • Actually load and use superpowers:brainstorming; do not merely claim in text that brainstorming already happened
  • Use it only as the convergence capability for the current explore stage, without entering its own spec, plan, or implementation workflow
  • Do not produce docs/superpowers/** or any other side-channel spec or plan documents
  • After the call completes, return to openspec-explore first, then decide whether to keep exploring, recommend /opsx:propose or openspec-new-change, or write back to the current change artifact only when the user explicitly asks to capture

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 110 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 652eb090721c

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openspec-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository chhuax/praxis-devos (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,191 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 2026-08-30.

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