Explore skills

Delegates knowledge bank lookups to Explore subagents with reflections-first strategy that learns from past mistakes. Checks /reflections/ directory before documentation to extract documented failures to avoid and proven approaches to apply. Automatically triggers when user mentions services ([project-a], [project-b], [project-c], Claude Code), requests investigations, or queries past lessons. Ret

Tool-tier guidance for symbol search and call/reference tracing. Preloaded into agents that locate code; not user-facing.

Run code review with dynamic agent scaling (3-13 agents based on change size)

Use when the user asks to improve, structure, or templatize a prompt before execution by Codex or another AI agent.

Tool-tier guidance for codebase exploration and architecture overview. Preloaded into agents that explore code structure; not user-facing.

Create Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) based on MADR template. Use when the user asks to "create an ADR", "document a decision", "write an ADR", or provides decision context that needs to be formalized.

Initialize .bdk/settings.json for this project. Run once per project when BDK blocks session start with missing settings.

Use when the user wants to know what will break if they change something, or needs safety analysis before editing code. Examples: \"Is it safe to change X?\", \"What depends on this?\", \"What will break?\"

Compile Graphviz diagrams (.dot files) to SVG in-place. Use when working with .dot files or markdown with Graphviz code blocks, or when user says "compile diagrams", "generate SVG from dot files", "update documentation diagrams".

Lint a BDK skill or agent file for best practices and portability. Use when reviewing, creating, or editing a skill (skills/*.md) or agent (agents/*.md) to verify it meets BDK conventions. Trigger on phrases like "check this skill", "verify agent", "does this follow best practices", "lint skill", or when about to commit a new skill/agent.

Create comprehensive implementation plan with exploration and trade-off analysis

Use when the user wants to rename, extract, split, move, or restructure code safely. Examples: \"Rename this function\", \"Extract this into a module\", \"Refactor this class\", \"Move this to a separate file\"