spike

spike is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from perasyudha/Nyxora. It costs 13 tokens per session (2,157 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of spike, MIT.

A disposable prototype used to test whether an idea is feasible before committing to a full build.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate a technical idea, try a quick prototype, or compare possible implementations.
Why use it?
It exposes unknowns and compares approaches through a small experiment that is not intended for production.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to validate a technical idea, try a quick prototype, or compare possible implementations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/perasyudha/nyxora/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 perasyudha/Nyxora --skill spike
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/perasyudha/Nyxora

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 spike

README.md
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Your own site
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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 spike

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,157 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00013 $0.02157
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.01078
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00216

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9b59f917f622, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 8d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to spike — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

packages/core/playbooks/software-development/spike/SKILL.md · 198 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 198 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Spike

Use this skill when the user wants to feel out an idea before committing to a real build — validating feasibility, comparing approaches, or surfacing unknowns that no amount of research will answer. Spikes are disposable by design. Throw them away once they've paid their debt.

Load this when the user says things like "let me try this", "I want to see if X works", "spike this out", "before I commit to Y", "quick prototype of Z", "is this even possible?", or "compare A vs B".

When NOT to use this

  • The answer is knowable from docs or reading code — just do research, don't build
  • The work is production path — use the plan skill instead
  • The idea is already validated — jump straight to implementation

If the user has the full GSD system installed

If gsd-spike shows up as a sibling skill (installed via npx get-shit-done-cc --nyxora), prefer gsd-spike when the user wants the full GSD workflow: persistent .planning/spikes/ state, MANIFEST tracking across sessions, Given/When/Then verdict format, and commit patterns that integrate with the rest of GSD. This skill is the lightweight standalone version for users who don't have (or don't want) the full system.

Core method

Regardless of scale, every spike follows this loop:

decompose  →  research  →  build  →  verdict
   ↑__________________________________________↓
                  iterate on findings

1. Decompose

Break the user's idea into 2-5 independent feasibility questions. Each question is one spike. Present them as a table with Given/When/Then framing:

# Spike Validates (Given/When/Then) Risk
001 websocket-streaming Given a WS connection, when LLM streams tokens, then client receives chunks < 100ms High
002a pdf-parse-pdfjs Given a multi-page PDF, when parsed with pdfjs, then structured text is extractable Medium
002b pdf-parse-camelot Given a multi-page PDF, when parsed with camelot, then structured text is extractable Medium

Read the full file on GitHub · 198 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. 8d ago First seen · 198 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 9b59f917f622

Subscribe to this mod's changes

spike is a skill published in the GitHub repository perasyudha/Nyxora (5 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 2,157 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to spike, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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