Description
create-technical-spike is an agent skill from the github/awesome-copilot collection that writes time-boxed technical spike documents. A spike is a short, focused investigation done before development starts, to answer a critical question that the team cannot decide without evidence, such as whether an API can do what is needed or whether a design will meet a performance target. Each spike document has a clear objective, the research questions to answer, an investigation plan with a time limit, the deliverables expected, and a decision framework that says what the findings would mean for the choice. The skill saves each spike as its own file in a docs/spikes folder by default, with a name in the form category-short-description-spike.md, so the spikes can be found and compared later. Keeping spikes time-boxed stops research from running on without a decision, which is the common failure of exploratory work. The skill is useful for engineering leads and architects who need to settle an uncertain technical choice before committing to it. The spike's results should be written up honestly, including what could not be determined, and the decision should be recorded by the people responsible for it. The skill is installed with the skills CLI from the github/awesome-copilot repository. Its skills.sh page showed about 9.0K installs, with Gen Agent Trust Hub and Socket passing and Snyk showing a warning at the time of the scan.…
Highlights
- Time-boxed investigation documents
- Objective, research questions and investigation plan
- Deliverables and decision framework
- One file per spike in docs/spikes by default
- Installs with the skills CLI
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create-technical-spike FAQ
What is a technical spike?
A short, time-limited investigation to answer a critical technical question before development proceeds.
Where are the files saved?
In docs/spikes by default, named category-short-description-spike.md, though the folder can be changed.
What does each spike contain?
An objective, research questions, a time-boxed plan, deliverables and a decision framework.
How do I install it?
Run npx skills add https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot --skill create-technical-spike.
What security audits does it have?
skills.sh lists three audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub Pass, Socket Pass and Snyk Warn. A Warn or Fail is worth reading before you install.
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