Synthesis Explore

Synthesis Explore is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by acogood in diffmode_free.

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Install Synthesis Explore

Copy Synthesis 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/acogood/diffmode_free/tree/main/plugin/skills/synthesis-explore ~/.claude/skills/synthesis-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/acogood/diffmode_free.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugin/skills/synthesis-explore/SKILL.md in acogood/diffmode_free
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/synthesis-explore
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Synthesis Explore does

Synthesis Explore generates blind vector combinations and derives the emergent mechanisms they could produce for the Diffmode growth-tactics pipeline. Use it when you need structural exploration before tactic design, with checks that reject conventional marketing patterns.

Synthesis Explore is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Synthesis Explore comes from a repository tagged agents, ai, bootstrapped, claude-code and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

This is the FIRST synthesis stage. It fuses two jobs that MUST stay ordered: Phase 1 draws vector combinations BLIND (vector-first, before any tactic exists), and Phase 2 derives the NOVEL MECHANISM that emerges from each combination. Vector-first thinking is the novelty engine: you commit to combinations BEFORE knowing what tactic they might produce, which is how you escape conventional playbooks. Output: 15-20 raw vector combinations + 12-18 validated mechanisms. NO TACTIC NAMES. NO EXECUTION STEPS. (Tactic design is synthesis-build's job.)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Synthesis Explore

What else does acogood publish alongside Synthesis Explore?
Synthesis Explore is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from acogood/diffmode_free, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Acquisition Tactics Research, Audience JTBD Analysis and Competitor Gaps. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Synthesis Explore does, and is maintained by acogood in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the acogood/diffmode_free page.
How does Synthesis Explore compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Synthesis Explore ranks #3449 by stars among the 3670 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 Synthesis Explore against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.