# Insight Explore

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-allemaar-open-skills-insight-explore`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [allemaar](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/allemaar)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [allemaar](https://github.com/allemaar)
- **Source:** https://github.com/allemaar/open-skills/tree/main/skills/insight-explore
- **Website:** https://allemaar.com

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-allemaar-open-skills-insight-explore
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# /explore

Divergent thinking — generate 3+ implementation options, then converge on a recommendation. Produces options, not plans.

> **Structured execution spec:** [`protocol.yon`](protocol.yon). Read it for the canonical rules and step sequence; this file is explanation. The two must stay in sync — if you edit one, update the other and refresh the `@STAMP` date.

> **Brainstorming Protocol — explore before committing.** `/insight-explore` generates alternatives (divergent). `/insight-assess` evaluates them (convergent). `/plan-create` designs the chosen approach.

## Phase 1 — Divergence

1. **Analyze constraints** — what are we optimizing for? What are the hard requirements vs. preferences?
2. **Option A: The Standard Pattern** — the obvious, well-trodden approach. What would most engineers reach for first?
3. **Option B: The Performance Way** — optimized for speed, scale, or efficiency. Possibly more complex.
4. **Option C: The Minimalist** — YAGNI. Smallest footprint that still solves the problem.

Additional options may be added if the problem space warrants them (e.g., event-driven, type-safe, or zero-dependency variants).

## Phase 2 — Convergence

Compare all options across:

- **DX** — developer experience, API ergonomics, debuggability
- **Robustness** — error handling, edge case coverage, failure modes
- **Timeline fit** — how long does each take to implement and validate?
- **Alignment** — does it match existing patterns and coding standards in the repo?

## Phase 3 — Recommendation

Output:

- **Winner** — which option and why
- **Reason** — 1–2 sentences, referencing the comparison
- **Next step** — ask the user: *"Shall I `/plan-create` this?"*

## Rules

- MUST generate at least 2 distinct options (3 is the target).
- MUST NOT write code or make changes — this is ideation only.

## Next Steps

- `/insight-assess` — evaluate the winner in depth before committing
- `/plan-create` — design the chosen approach

> **Human output.** This skill's handler-facing output obeys the human-output
> contract (`human-output/SKILL.md`).

> **Next skills.** On completion, run the Next Skills protocol (`next-skills/SKILL.md`): surface the `next-skills` recommendations from front-matter for the caller to pick. Offer only — never auto-invoke.

> **Self-improvement.** On completion, run the Self-Improvement Protocol (`self-improve/SKILL.md`): if this run surfaced a concrete, blocking-or-recurring weakness in this skill, propose a specific fix for the handler to approve. Conservative — silent otherwise. Never auto-apply.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [allemaar](https://github.com/allemaar)
- **Source:** [allemaar/open-skills](https://github.com/allemaar/open-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Homepage:** https://allemaar.com

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-allemaar-open-skills-insight-explore
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/allemaar
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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