SpillwaveSolutions

Research Spine — Productivity skill for Claude Code

Productivity community

Repair Area → Subject → Task links on an existing RKC knowledge tree.

How to install Research Spine

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/spillwavesolutions-research-knowledge-capture-research-spine/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/spillwavesolutions-research-knowledge-capture-research-spine && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SpillwaveSolutions/research-knowledge-capture/HEAD/commands/research-spine.md -o ~/.claude/skills/spillwavesolutions-research-knowledge-capture-research-spine/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Research Spine does

name: research-spine description: Repair Area → Subject → Task links on an existing RKC knowledge tree. Create missing Subjects and ResearchAreas. Idempotent.

Follow the **research-spine** skill completely.

Load ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/research-spine/SKILL.md.
Run python3 ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/rkc_spine.py --knowledge --list-subjects.
Run --link-tasks, then --area-map if areas are known.
Validate with --spine. Ready PR. No force-pus

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