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Spike
The Spike skill empowers AI agents to rapidly test and validate new ideas, technical approaches, or feasibility questions. It's designed for quick, throwaway prototypes that provide concrete evidence and a clear verdict without the commitment of a full production build. This skill helps developers and teams mitigate risk by answering critical questions like "is this possible?" or "which approach is better?" before investing significant resources. It streamlines the initial exploration phase, ensuring that development efforts are focused on validated concepts.
The skill follows a structured loop: defining a clear question, researching credible approaches, building the smallest runnable artifact, testing edge cases, and finally delivering a comprehensive verdict. It prioritizes speed and clarity, producing focused prototypes that avoid unnecessary complexity, package sprawl, or production-grade cleanup. The output is a clear verdict with evidence and recommendations, guiding the next steps in your development process.
What It Does
The Spike skill defines a concrete feasibility question, researches credible approaches, and builds the smallest runnable artifact to validate or invalidate an idea. It includes stress testing, provides a clear verdict (VALIDATED, PARTIAL, INVALIDATED) with evidence, and offers recommendations for the next steps. It generates focused, runnable code artifacts.
When To Use
When testing a new idea or concept before committing to a full build.
To validate the feasibility of a technical approach ("is this possible?").
For comparing different solutions or libraries (A/B comparisons).
When needing a "quick prototype" or "proof of concept."
Before starting a major development effort to reduce risk.
Inputs
User prompts requesting a prototype or feasibility test, such as "spike this idea," "prototype X functionality," "compare A and B for Y," or a specific technical question to investigate.
Outputs
A structured markdown verdict including the question, evidence (commands/output), what worked, what failed, and a recommendation. It also produces a runnable prototype artifact (CLI, HTML, endpoint, or test) in a temporary or specified repo-local directory.
Limitations
Installation
Copy to ~/.claude/skills/Add to .cursor/skills/Add to Windsurf skillsAdd to Cline skills directoryConfigure in .aider.conf.ymlAdd to .vscode/skills/What people say, and where to get help
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