spike

spike is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing. It costs 19 tokens per session (418 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for building a small throwaway prototype to check whether an idea is feasible before committing to a full implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research an approach, create a minimal runnable test, check an edge case, and report whether the idea works.
Why use it?
It exposes technical risks and compares approaches with less time and code than a production build.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to research an approach, create a minimal runnable test, check an edge case, and report whether the idea works.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing/21-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 subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing --skill 21-spike
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 418 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 $0.00019 $0.00418
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00209
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00042

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0526e312def0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 5d 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.

workflows/21-SPIKE/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Spike

Use when the user wants to test an idea before committing to a real build: "spike this", "quick prototype", "is this possible", "compare A/B", "before we build".

Do not use when reading docs/code can answer the question, or when the user clearly asked for production implementation.

Loop

  1. Question: state the concrete feasibility question.
  2. Research: read enough docs/source to choose credible approach.
  3. Build: create the smallest runnable artifact that validates or invalidates the idea.
  4. Stress: try one edge case or failure mode.
  5. Verdict: VALIDATED, PARTIAL, or INVALIDATED.

Output shape

  • Default workspace: .tmp/spikes/<slug> unless user asks for a tracked repo-local path.
  • Repo-local option: spikes/<NNN-slug>/ with README.md and minimal code.
  • Prefer runnable CLI, tiny HTML, one endpoint, or focused test.
  • Avoid package sprawl, Docker, env files, app frameworks, and production cleanup.

Multi-spike ideas

  • Split into 2-5 independent questions.
  • Run the riskiest question first.
  • For A/B comparisons, keep inputs equal and measure the same dimensions.
  • Ask before building all variants if the work is more than a small prototype.

Verdict format

## Verdict: VALIDATED | PARTIAL | INVALIDATED

Question: ...
Evidence: exact command/output/measurement.
What worked: ...
What failed or surprised us: ...
Recommendation: ship / adjust / avoid, with the next production step.

Rules

  • An invalidated spike is useful when it rules out a path with evidence.
  • Do not merge spike code into production without rewriting it normally.
  • If external dependencies are evaluated, check health: recent release/commit, docs, license, install friction.
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. 5d ago First seen · 52 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 0526e312def0

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spike is a skill published in the GitHub repository subhansh-dev/agent-maxxing (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 418 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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