explore-experience

explore-experience is a skill for Claude Code from VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile. It costs 46 tokens per session (2,274 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview-based tool that finds real work experience missing from a user's written profile and connects it to a specific job's requirements. It then records the relevant details in the profile and story files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a role review identifies thin or unclear areas, such as experience with evaluation pipelines or incident response. It can work from a role folder or from named experience topics.
Why use it?
It addresses cases where a person has done relevant work but described it too vaguely or left it out. This makes later fit reviews and applications work from fuller evidence.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the slushpile plugin — 11 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it after a role review identifies thin or unclear areas, such as experience with evaluation pipelines or incident response. It can work from a role folder or from named experience topics.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/explore-experience
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.

Any agent
npx skills add VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile --skill explore-experience
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slushpile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,274 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00046 $0.02274
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01137
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00227

Measured 10d ago against content hash cdb689f7efe9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explore-experience 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 10d 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.

skills/explore-experience/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Explore Experience

Most gaps in a fit assessment are documentation gaps, not experience gaps. The user did the thing; it never made it into profile.md, usually because they did not think of it as the thing the posting is asking for.

This skill finds those, by interview, and writes them down.

Announce at start: "Exploring undocumented experience for $ROLE. Reading the profile and the role requirements now."

Arguments:

  • $1 — a role folder path (containing role_analysis.md and/or job_description.md), or keywords naming the gap areas to explore

Examples:

/slushpile:explore-experience applications/Acme/Engineering/Staff-SRE
/slushpile:explore-experience evaluation pipelines golden datasets
/slushpile:explore-experience incident command on-call escalation

Prerequisites

  • profile.md — the full background
  • stories.md — so a story surfaced here gets written to the right file
  • The role's job_description.md and role_analysis.md, if a role path was given

Phase 1: Gap Identification

1a. Map requirements to profile

For each responsibility and qualification in the JD, check whether profile.md contains specific, detailed evidence. Classify each as:

Status Meaning
COVERED Profile has specific, detailed evidence with metrics/examples
THIN Profile mentions the area but lacks depth (e.g., one-line bullet for a complex program)
MISSING Profile has no evidence for this requirement
ADJACENT Profile has experience in a related domain that could transfer but isn't framed for this role

Focus on THIN and ADJACENT items. These are the highest-value interview targets. The user likely has experience here that simply hasn't been documented.

MISSING items are also worth exploring, but set expectations: the user may genuinely not have this experience. Don't force a match.

1b. Prioritize by impact

Rank the gaps by how much surfacing new evidence would improve the fit assessment:

  1. Responsibilities gaps — these are what the hiring manager will evaluate daily work against
  2. Min qual gaps — these gate the application
  3. Preferred qual gaps — these differentiate but don't gate

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 10d ago First seen · 167 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A cdb689f7efe9

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explore-experience is a skill published in the GitHub repository VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile (15 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,274 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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