spike

spike is a skill for Claude Code from cryndoc/polisade-orchestrator. It costs 105 tokens per session (2,651 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A time-limited research task for answering an open technical or product question before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a problem, compare technical options, or answer a research question. It creates a numbered SPIKE task for the investigation.
Why use it?
It helps the team investigate an unknown and make a decision before committing to a design or build. It also controls how research findings are recorded and checked when files may change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the polisade plugin — 26 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to explore a problem, compare technical options, or answer a research question. It creates a numbered SPIKE task for the investigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cryndoc/polisade-orchestrator/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 cryndoc/polisade-orchestrator --skill spike
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cryndoc/polisade-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install polisade, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 2 commands.

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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.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cryndoc/polisade-orchestrator/spike"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cryndoc/polisade-orchestrator/spike.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,651 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 original 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 $0.00105 $0.02651
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01326
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00530
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00265

Measured today against content hash ef8d654b830b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 today.

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.

skills/spike/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/polisade:spike [вопрос] — Исследовательская задача

Timeboxed исследование для принятия технического решения.

Вызов скрипта отклонён или не запустился (Command references protected path / Install directory is read-protected / Filesystem Guard / the tool's default permission is 'deny', отказ песочницы, ненулевой exit без вывода) — STOP. Процитируй отказ дословно. НЕ пересказывай по исходнику, что скрипт «сделал бы»; НЕ собирай dry-run вручную; НЕ переходи к apply/push/pr-create. НЕ транскрибируй скрипт (прочитать → записать копию в /tmp или в проект → запустить копию): копия не байт-идентична — уезжают классы символов в regex, форма возврата функций, пропадают целые функции — и молча меняется набор применённых изменений. Отказ инструмента — это отказ, а не результат. Доложи PM дословный текст отказа и сошлись на #127 (доставка скриптов в проект).

Живой корпус docs/architecture/ пишет ОДИН исполнитель${POLISADE_PYTHON:-python3} {plugin_root}/scripts/polisade_corpus_io.py (stdlib-only). Ни Write, ни Edit, ни cp, ни mv, ни > в корпус не идут: примитив даёт пофайловую атомарность, блокировку от второго писателя, журнал оборванной промоции, проверяемый манифестом backup и отказ на симлинках и побегах пути. Ручное копирование обходит всё перечисленное — это регресс, а не «то же самое».

Хэш-контракт. Всё, что ты проверил ДО вызова, к моменту записи могло устареть, поэтому объявляй примитиву, каким ты ВИДЕЛ цель, — он сверит это сам, вплотную к записи: --expect-absent для нового файла (публикация идёт атомарным linkat, занятое имя отвергает ядро) и --expect-sha256 <hex> для правки существующего (ключ — из ПРОЧИТАННЫХ байтов, не из размера и не из даты); для promote — карта --expect-from <json> вида {путь: sha256|absent}. Отказ E-expect-* значит, что файл правил кто-то ещё: не повторяй с --force, покажи расхождение PM.

Исключение ровно одно, и оно названо, а не умолчано: legacy-силос docs/architecture/DESIGN-NNN-<slug>/ пишет /polisade:design своим Write-инструментом. Силос deprecated и переносится в корпус скриптом scripts/polisade_migrate_silo.py, а не развивается.

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

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. today Changed · +21 lines ef8d654b830b
  2. 8d ago First seen · 174 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 745f40e9f208

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spike is a skill published in the GitHub repository cryndoc/polisade-orchestrator (7 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 2,651 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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