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explore-unknowns

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By dzhng/skills (GitHub) · coding · 1,470 stars · scanned at commit 828e386

Guide the user through a quadrant walk that maps the unknowns of a task — open by listing the known knowns, then work through known unknowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns one stage at a time, ending with a complete four-quadrant map in the user's hands. Use when a request is ambiguous or underspecified, the codebase or domain is unfamiliar, the user will "know it when they see it", a reference implementation must be understood before porting, mid-build deviations from the plan need capt…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'explore-unknowns' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'explore-unknowns' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named explore-unknowns already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/dzhng/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '828e386301530b406b2fbd6d48136eae75720262' -- 'skills/engineering/explore-unknowns' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/engineering/explore-unknowns' ~/.agents/skills/'explore-unknowns' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'explore-unknowns' ~/.claude/skills/'explore-unknowns' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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