ca-spike

ca-spike is a skill for Claude Code from arbiterForge/codeArbiter. It costs 35 tokens per session (682 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

An exploratory coding task on a temporary Git branch that answers a named question with disposable code and ends with a findings note or a feature workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test an idea, investigate a technical question, or compare an approach before committing to implementation.
Why use it?
It lets you investigate an uncertain approach without mixing unfinished experiments into the main codebase.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to test an idea, investigate a technical question, or compare an approach before committing to implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-spike
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add arbiterForge/codeArbiter --skill ca-spike
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arbiterForge/codeArbiter

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for ca-spike

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-spike/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-spike)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-spike"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-spike/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for ca-spike

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-spike"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-spike.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 682 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.00682
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00273
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00068

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 067b4e75a642, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ca-spike scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/ca-codex/skills/ca-spike/SKILL.md · 49 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 49 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 067b4e75a642

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ca-spike is a skill published in the GitHub repository arbiterForge/codeArbiter (149 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 682 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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