concept-family-explorer
Given a subject, concept-family-explorer finds the concepts in its conceptual family that
are currently missing from an existing skill library or concept tree, fills the
worthwhile ones to saturation by running /dr on each, and finishes by optimizing every
skill it touched.
It is a gap-discovery orchestrator, not a researcher — per-concept research, skill
authoring, and installation are /dr’s job. This skill decides which concepts are worth
researching, in what order, and when to stop.
The five neighborhoods
Every subject gets decomposed into five neighborhoods before anything is scored:
| Neighborhood | Question it answers |
|---|---|
| Parent / super-domain | What broader field is this a specialization of? |
| Siblings | What sits at the same level under the same parent? |
| Children / sub-concepts | What does this decompose into? |
| Adjacent / cross-over | What neighboring domains overlap or interface here? |
| Frontier / emerging | What is new, contested, or rising in this space? |
Each candidate concept gets tagged HAVE, STALE, or GAP against existing
coverage, then scored on five axes — Relevance, Usefulness, Novelty, Interest, Viability —
before anything gets researched. Only gaps that clear the viability threshold get sent to
/dr. The loop stops when two consecutive rounds of re-expansion turn up nothing new above
threshold — evidence of saturation, not just a list running out.
Where it sits
Breadth, not depth: it maps everything around a subject and stops at one useful pass per neighbor. Its narrow inverse — going inside one concept instead of around it — is rabbithole. Once a family is mapped and worth compiling into a full llms-family reference set, full-suite is the next layer up.
Use it for: “what am I missing about X”, “map the conceptual family of X”, “what skills should I build around X”.
Not for: a concrete, already-named topic (/dr directly) · a cited research report with
no skill-building (deep-research) · reorganizing an existing skill tree with no new
research (skill-tree-architect).