Explore

Core Rule

Before reading many files in the main conversation, delegate codebase reconnaissance to one or more explorer subagents. Keep the main context focused on coordination, decisions, implementation, and verification; let explorer subagents absorb verbose search results and file reads.

Use this skill when any of these signals appear:

• The task is in an unfamiliar repository or subsystem.
• The task likely needs reading about 10 or more files.
• The task spans multiple independent areas, such as API, database, UI, tests, docs, or build tooling.
• The user asks for architecture understanding, feature tracing, refactoring, migration, bug root-cause analysis, or broad review.
• You need a fresh, read-only pass before editing.

Skip delegation when the task is a tiny targeted edit and the relevant file is already known.

Workflow