sdd-explore

Investigates and analyzes an idea or area of the codebase before committing to changes.

Triggers: /sdd-explore <topic>, explore, investigate codebase, analyze before changing, research feature

Purpose

EXPLORE is a mandatory gate of any SDD cycle that proceeds past it. It runs before propose, spec, design, tasks, and apply, and produces a persisted, citation-bearing artifact. No downstream phase may begin until EXPLORE has written its artifact to disk. It creates no code and modifies nothing — it only reads and analyzes.

Skill resolution

When the orchestrator launches this sub-agent, it resolves the skill path using: