Spike — Productivity skill for Claude Code
De-risk an open technical decision with a time-boxed spike — frame the question, prototype several approaches in parallel as throwaways, judge them against the project's constraints, and return a reco.
How to install Spike
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/saman-mb-shipmates-spike/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/saman-mb-shipmates-spike && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/saman-mb/shipmates/HEAD/commands/spike.md -o ~/.claude/skills/saman-mb-shipmates-spike/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Spike does
name: spike description: De-risk an open technical decision with a time-boxed spike — frame the question, prototype several approaches in parallel as throwaways, judge them against the project's constraints, and return a recommendation as an ADR. Produces a decision, not production code. argument-hint: allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Write, Edit, Agent, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch disable-model-invocation:
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