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spike-probelisted

Use when the user wants to prove out a feature or fix fast before committing to an implementation — a spike, probe, blitz, sprint, bolt, speedrun, MVP pass, or proof-of-concept that mutates the working tree but must not land as commits. Triggers on phrases like "probe it", "quick probe", "spike into", "do a spike", "blitz it", "bolt through it", "speedrun the fix", "do a sprint to handle this without committing", "take a stab at it", "prove it works, then plan", "MVP this then clean it up", "probe those review items", or "get it working before my meeting". The goal may be typed or inferred from conversation context (review findings, a failing test under discussion). Ends with the working tree stashed and a commit-by-commit plan to land the work through the project's quality gates.
tony/ai-workflow-plugins · ★ 2 · AI & Automation · score 71
Install: claude install-skill tony/ai-workflow-plugins
# this skill Rapid spike harness. Probe the goal in the working tree with the lightest verification that proves the path, exit through the project's fast quality gates, stash everything with a recovery ref, and hand back a neat commit-by-commit plan — optionally replaying it immediately. A probe **mutates the working tree freely** — mutation is the point; the code is the sensing instrument. What it never touches is history: like an attached kprobe, it patches the live system to take its measurement and detaches without a trace in `git log`. This is a slash command, not a model-invocable skill: it mutates the working tree and (in `--replay`) creates commits, so it must be user-explicit, not router-inferred. ## Core thesis A spike answers "does this path work?" — it is **evidence, not a deliverable**. The probe's value survives as (a) a stash you can reapply and (b) decisions the plan records. Committing spike code converts unreviewed exploration into history. Three disciplines: 1. **Zero commits during the spike.** The probe ends in a stash and a plan, never in `git commit`. 2. **Right-sized verification.** During the probe, run only what proves the path (a smoke test, a scoped test run). At spike exit, run the project's fast gates once so the plan starts from known-green knowledge. Defer what CI covers to CI. 3. **The plan is the product.** Every probe ends with a numbered commit sequence mapping stash contents to commits, with the discovered gate com