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docs(explore): shorten the explore guide, move the detail to the CLI reference - #969

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The explore guide had grown into half guide, half reference. This cuts it from 1,241 to about 660 words and moves the reference detail to the reference pages, so no fact is lost.

  • docs/explore.mdx: reordered by what a user does: run it, write a goal, read the results, start signed in, raise the budget, pick the target and agent. Rewritten in a plain, simplified-English voice (short sentences, active voice, one term per concept).
  • docs/reference/cli.mdx (e2e explore) now holds what left the guide: the verdict table with exit codes (replacing the old one-line summary, Ctrl-C kept), per-step action and model-call budgets, the three-failures stuck rule, issue vs warning and severity order, no screenshots after a secret fill, the artifact directory, markdown writing summary.md, the --video notices, system in the --agent row, MODEL_UNAVAILABLE, and opening the app when the target declares app.url.
  • docs/security.mdx: the credentials paragraph moves here. It linked to /explore#your-config-applies, which no longer exists.

Two claims were wrong before and are corrected here:

  • With no credentials configured, the explorer does sign in, with made-up credentials typed as text (packages/e2e/src/explore/plan.ts:188, packages/e2e/src/explore/executor.ts:20). The old page said it skips password sign-in.
  • The artifact directory digest comes from the result id, which covers the target and agent (packages/e2e/src/run/artifacts.ts:345, packages/e2e/src/report/build.ts:508), not the goal alone.

No changeset: docs only.

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Ran it locally: yes

  • Docs site, pnpm docs:dev, pages rendered in Chromium: the new guide, the e2e explore section of the CLI reference, and the security page's "MCP and explore" section.
  • pnpm check passes, including mint validate and mint broken-links. No link in docs/, skills/, or src/ points to a removed /explore# anchor.
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The moved detail in the CLI reference:

cli reference

…reference

Reorder the page by what a user does (run, write a goal, read the results,
sign in, raise the budget) and rewrite it in a plain, simplified-English
voice. The verdict table, per-step budgets, stuck rule, severity scale,
artifact directory, and notices move to the e2e explore section of the CLI
reference; the credentials paragraph moves to the security page, which
linked to the removed anchor.

Also corrects two claims: with no credentials the explorer signs in with
made-up ones, and the artifact directory digest covers the target and
agent too.
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