spike
spike is a System design & architecture decisions skill for AI agents, published by dan-the-dev in the xp-developer-skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates spike C (71/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
XP-style spike — time-boxed experiment on an isolated branch; code is disposable. Answer one technical or design question (feasibility, library fit, performance bound, integration). Use automated checks only when they help prove the goal — no delivery test pyramid, no ATDD/TDD discipline on the spike branch. Explicit promotion to skills/atdd, skills/tdd, or skills/legacy-testing when learning is done. Use for unknowns before committing to product work, not for shipping features.
- Grade
- C
- Quality
- 71 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 27
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
Not launch-quality. It is graded C with a clean safety verdict, but our quality filters exclude it: it is a near-duplicate variant of another skill. So it is not in our launch-quality set, the skills our MCP server searches and recommends. How launch-quality is decided
This rating describes the version of the repository we crawled; it may have changed since, so go by its current files.
Our review
- Architecture
- 94 / 100
- Maturity
- Structured: ships references or scripts
- Security scan
- No issues found
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections
Not checked yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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