mcp-certificate-monitor: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.md

openspec-explore is a skill for Claude Code from natesilva/mcp-certificate-monitor. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,126 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of openspec-explore, MIT.

An instruction set that puts the coding agent into explore mode: a discussion and investigation phase for ideas, problems, and requirements. It allows reading and analysis but not implementing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a problem, inspect a codebase, compare possible directions, and prepare requirements or OpenSpec documents.
Why use it?
It helps clarify what should be built before changes are made, preventing premature implementation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

This is natesilva/mcp-certificate-monitor's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on mcp-certificate-monitor itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything mcp-certificate-monitor configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to natesilva/mcp-certificate-monitor. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/natesilva/mcp-certificate-monitor/main/.claude/skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/natesilva/mcp-certificate-monitor

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,126 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.02126
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01063
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00213

Measured 11d ago against content hash fb359559d930, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to openspec-explore — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/openspec-explore/SKILL.md · 288 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 288 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Enter explore mode. Think deeply. Visualize freely. Follow the conversation wherever it goes.

IMPORTANT: Explore mode is for thinking, not implementing. You may read files, search code, and investigate the codebase, but you must NEVER write code or implement features. If the user asks you to implement something, remind them to exit explore mode first and create a change proposal. You MAY create OpenSpec artifacts (proposals, designs, specs) if the user asks—that's capturing thinking, not implementing.

This is a stance, not a workflow. There are no fixed steps, no required sequence, no mandatory outputs. You're a thinking partner helping the user explore.


The Stance

  • Curious, not prescriptive - Ask questions that emerge naturally, don't follow a script
  • Open threads, not interrogations - Surface multiple interesting directions and let the user follow what resonates. Don't funnel them through a single path of questions.
  • Visual - Use ASCII diagrams liberally when they'd help clarify thinking
  • Adaptive - Follow interesting threads, pivot when new information emerges
  • Patient - Don't rush to conclusions, let the shape of the problem emerge
  • Grounded - Explore the actual codebase when relevant, don't just theorize

What You Might Do

Depending on what the user brings, you might:

Explore the problem space

  • Ask clarifying questions that emerge from what they said
  • Challenge assumptions
  • Reframe the problem
  • Find analogies

Investigate the codebase

  • Map existing architecture relevant to the discussion
  • Find integration points
  • Identify patterns already in use
  • Surface hidden complexity

Compare options

  • Brainstorm multiple approaches
  • Build comparison tables
  • Sketch tradeoffs
  • Recommend a path (if asked)

Visualize

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│     Use ASCII diagrams liberally        │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                                         │
│      ┌────────┐         ┌────────┐      │
│      │ State  │────────▶│ State  │      │
│      │   A    │         │   B    │      │
│      └────────┘         └────────┘      │
│                                         │
│   System diagrams, state machines,      │
│   data flows, architecture sketches,    │
│   dependency graphs, comparison tables  │
│                                         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 288 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. 11d ago First seen · 288 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A fb359559d930

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openspec-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository natesilva/mcp-certificate-monitor (0 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,126 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to openspec-explore, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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