Exploration Cycle Plugin

Top-level orchestration skill coordinating the entire 7-step surgical vibe-to-enterprise reengineering pipeline with automated safety and economic optimization controls.

Presents layout options to the SME in plain language before any prototype construction begins. Invoked after the Discovery Plan is approved to confirm visual structure and direction. Trigger phrases: "what should it look like", "show me some layout options", "let me see the design options before we build". Also invoked by prototype-builder after plan approval.

Orchestrates the full prototype build cycle for a Subject Matter Expert. Coordinates layout confirmation and component building — it does not build components directly. Acts as the single entry point for all prototype-related requests. Trigger phrases: "build a prototype", "create a working prototype", "show me a working version", "prototype to clarify scope", "build an exploratory prototype"

Guides a Subject Matter Expert through a structured discovery session to create and approve a Discovery Plan before any building begins. This is the HARD-GATE brainstorming skill — no prototype can be built until the SME explicitly approves the plan. Trigger phrases: "start a discovery session", "let's plan this out", "help me figure out what we're building", "I have an idea I want to explore", "let's start from scratch"

Derives, groups, and refines user stories from exploration work, prototype behavior, and business context, with prioritization for the first implementation slice. Supports standard "As a / I want / So that" format and Gherkin "Given / When / Then" Acceptance Criteria format. Trigger with "generate user stories", "write acceptance criteria", "create Gherkin scenarios", "derive stories from requirements", or "create a backlog".

A visual & functional crawler operation utilizing Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) or Playwright/Puppeteer to audit prototype UI/UX and behavior.

A package builder skill that compiles specs/ documents into standard spec-kits and scaffolds the clean target codebase sandbox.

Interactive co-authoring skill for the narrow end of the exploration funnel. Synthesizes session briefs, BRDs, story sets, and prototype notes into a structured handoff package targeted at the correct downstream consumer (e.g., formal software specs, strategic roadmaps, or process documentation).

Progressively migrates legacy prototype routes and features to a clean architecture layer slice-by-slice, verifying them against characterization tests, running purity/drift checks, and executing completion certifications.

SME-facing orchestrator for the Business Exploration Loop. Supports 4 session types (greenfield, brownfield, discovery-only, spike) with adaptive phase selection. Manages state via exploration-dashboard.md, enforces phase gates, and routes to child skills in sequence. Phases can be skipped based on session type. Single canonical entry point — invoke at the start of any exploration session or to resume an in-progress session. Trigger phrases: "start an exploration", "let's explore this idea", "resume my exploration", "where did we leave off", "start discovery".

A system architecture scaffolder designed to synthesize visual discoveries and interactive Q&A responses into comprehensive C4 and TOGAF specs.

Generate Mermaid flowcharts documenting business processes, state machines, and workflow logic from session captures. Use when you need to map multi-step processes, approval flows, user journeys, or decision trees during exploration. Trigger with "map this workflow", "create a process diagram", "flowchart the business process", "document this workflow", or "visualize the state machine".

Evaluates and improves the exploration-cycle skills, prompts, routing, and artifact quality using baseline-first, one-hypothesis iteration loops with keep-discard decisions and experiment ledgers.

Extracts pure, framework-free, IO-free domain models and deterministic business rules from a rapid prototype with strict preservation vs replacement classification and purity audit enforcement.

Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and follow the business exploration workflow.

Interactive co-authoring skill for the wide end of the exploration funnel. Captures and refines the core intent, whether the outcome is a software app, a business process improvement, research analysis, or strategic roadmap. Guides users through gathering context, iteratively drafting the brief, and testing for blind spots.

Builds a prototype component by component, self-reviewing each component against the Discovery Plan before moving to the next. Invoked by prototype-builder after the layout direction is confirmed. Trigger phrases: "build the prototype", "let's build it", "start building". Also invoked by prototype-builder-agent after visual-companion confirms layout.

End-to-end pipeline that transforms an undocumented vibe-coded prototype into a Spec Kit-compatible specification package and a Superpowers-ready implementation handoff, including characterization tests, domain extraction, architecture decisions, task breakdown, TDD strategy, worktree guidance, and certification reports.

Builds an executable safety net of characterization tests by integrating browser flow recording, API payload snapshotting, DOM state captures, network traces, and mock fixture generation.

Captures and refines business requirements, including functional requirements, non-functional requirements, business rules, constraints, assumptions, and success measures. Produces structured BRD-style documents with [CONFIRMED] and [UNCONFIRMED] confidence markers. Trigger with "capture requirements", "generate a BRD", "document business rules", "list the constraints", or "create a requirements document".