GSD Explore

by open-gsd

GSD Explore is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by open-gsd in gsd-core.

8.3K stars573 forkson open-gsd/gsd-coreAdded 2026/08/15+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15

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claude-codecontext-engineeringmeta-promptingspec-driven-development

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Install GSD Explore

Copy GSD Explore into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core/tree/next/skills/gsd-explore ~/.claude/skills/gsd-explore

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-core.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/gsd-explore/SKILL.md in open-gsd/gsd-core
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/gsd-explore
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What GSD Explore does

GSD Explore runs a Socratic ideation session that probes an idea with questions and optionally spawns research, then routes the outputs to GSD artifacts like notes, todos, seeds, research questions, requirements, or phases.

GSD Explore is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. GSD Explore comes from a repository tagged claude-code, context-engineering, meta-prompting and spec-driven-development.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

Accepts an optional topic argument: /gsd-explore authentication strategy

<execution_context> @~/.claude/gsd-core/workflows/explore.md </execution_context>

Commands GSD Explore provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/gsd-explore

Frequently asked about GSD Explore

What else does open-gsd publish alongside GSD Explore?
GSD Explore is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from open-gsd/gsd-core, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Integration Phase, Add Tests and Complete Milestone. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way GSD Explore does, and is maintained by open-gsd in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the open-gsd/gsd-core page.
How does GSD Explore compare to other AI Engineering skills?
GSD Explore ranks #410 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of GSD Explore against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.