explore

Pure technical exploration: research a problem space, compare technical approaches or repositories, and generate decision-oriented proposals. This skill never writes application code.

Workflows

new — research technical approaches

Research a technical problem and generate parallel proposals before building. Output lives in .codevoyant/explore/{slug}/ and can feed into /spec new.

/explore new "caching strategy"                # research approaches, generate proposals
/explore new "auth approaches" --aspects       # break down by aspect
/explore new how the auth middleware works     # topic inline

diff — compare repos or branches

Generate a diff report covering structural differences, added/removed files, and architectural divergence between your codebase and another repository or branch.

/explore diff https://github.com/org/other-repo    # compare with a remote repository
/explore diff feature/my-branch                    # compare with a local branch

Output is written to .codevoyant/diffs/{YYYY-MM-DD}-{target-repo-name}.md.

allow — pre-approve permissions

Write the allow entries needed for the explore skill to run without permission prompts.

/explore allow                                # write to project .claude/settings.json
/explore allow --global                       # write to ~/.claude/settings.json

help — list commands

/explore help                                 # list all explore commands with descriptions

Renamed from dev. The old /dev plan and /dev approve workflows moved to the plan skill (/plan plan, /plan approve); /dev docs moved to the docs skill (/docs new, /docs update, /docs retcon).