exploration-workflow

exploration-workflow is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 121 tokens per session (7,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for exploring a business idea, software project, process improvement, or technical question through planned stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new projects, changes to existing code, requirements and process documentation, or technology investigations.
Why use it?
It keeps exploration organized, records progress, and ensures important review gates are completed before later work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the exploration-cycle-plugin plugin — 20 skills, 15 agents shipped together

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/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/exploration-workflow
Any agent
npx skills add richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill exploration-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install exploration-cycle-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 15 agents.

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/exploration-workflow"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/exploration-workflow.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 121 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,351 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 $0.00121 $0.07351
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.03675
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.01470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00735

Measured yesterday against content hash e0db0485e16c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

exploration-workflow 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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/check_gaps.py, scripts/dispatch.py, scripts/validate_phase_gate.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/exploration-cycle-plugin/skills/exploration-workflow/SKILL.md · 466 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 466 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Exploration Workflow — SME Orchestrator

This skill is the single canonical entry point for the Business Exploration Loop. It manages all session state via exploration-dashboard.md, enforces phase gates, maintains a living task list as the session evolves, and routes work to the correct child skill at each phase. The SME never needs to invoke any other skill directly.

Session Types

The workflow adapts to four session types, each with different phase requirements:

Type When to use Active Phases
Greenfield Building a new app or system from scratch All 4 phases
Brownfield Adding a feature to an existing codebase Phase 1 required, Phases 2 & 4 optional, Phase 3 builds into real codebase
Analysis/Docs Non-software output: requirements, process maps, legacy code analysis, policy, strategy, workflow design Phases 1 & 4 required, Phase 2 optional (structure not layout), Phase 3 skipped
Spike Investigating a question or technology Phase 1 required (may repeat), all others flexible

Execution Disciplines (powered by orba/superpowers)

Required dependency: The orba/superpowers plugin MUST be installed in the current host environment before the full Phase 3 execution discipline is available. Depending on the host, this may be exposed through a marketplace install, .agents, or another host-managed runtime location. Do not assume one fixed install path; determine availability by resolving the required Superpowers skills in the current environment. See the plugin README for installation guidance.

Read the full file on GitHub · 466 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. yesterday First seen · 466 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A e0db0485e16c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

exploration-workflow is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 7,351 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.