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offload-guidance

ROUTING RULE — when the question asks where something lives, how something works, what handles X, or how Y flows through a repository you have not already read into context, call the mikro microagent tool `mikro_explore-r` (namespaced `mcp__plugin_mikro_mikro__mikro_explore-r`) with the question as `prompt`, BEFORE running Grep/Glob/Read/Bash searches and BEFORE launching an Explore subagent. This rule outranks the habit of grepping first: it applies to multi-part questions even when each part looks small on its own, and the offloaded run costs this session almost none of its context, which is the entire reason to make it. Its citations are leads you then verify yourself. Read this skill for the protocol: the call shape and session resume, how to read the answer, and the three measured conditions that force escalation back to your own tools (citations that do not resolve; an errored or timed-out run; work where completeness matters more than cost). Read it also when an mikro result comes back errored, uncited, or thin. Does not apply when the answer is already in context, the question is about one known line or a diff you just made, or the work is a mutation.

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# Offloading exploration to mikro

## The rule

**Explore-class question → call `mikro_explore-r` first. Treat its answer as a
lead, not as a finding. Escalate to your own tools the moment any of the three
triggers below fires.**

`explore-r` is a *first-pass* explorer. It failed its parity gate —
`Round-2 gate: FAIL` (`docs/parity-explore.md:993`), agreeing with round 1's
`Gate: FAIL` (`docs/parity-explore.md:595`). It ships anyway because a first
pass does not have to be a verdict: it has to be cheaper than reading the tree
yourself and honest about where it stops. Everything claimed below comes from
that report, at the report's own scoping. Read