# Research Spike Tutorial

> Use when someone wants to learn how the research-spike obligation-ledger instrument works, hands-on and with nothing at stake, before ever touching it for real — typically with no live spike of their own yet. Not for managing an actual devdocs/research/ tree (research-spike) and not a comprehension check on work already done (tutor). Runs the real scripts/research-spike.py against a disposable tree under a temp directory, never the user's repo — scaffold a project, file a question, deliberately hit the "destination must already exist" wall and watch validate fail for real, fix it with a stub card, then a couple more rounds fast enough to watch questions-answered converge while obligations-open climbs faster, on the same screen. Trigger on requests to be walked through, shown, taught hands-on, or given a demo/tutorial of research-spike, the obligation ledger, "the wall", or "the divergence". Ends by offering, not performing, a /tutor comprehension pass.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-bestdan-research-spike-tutorial
- tashan id: skill:bestdan/research-spike-tutorial
- Source: https://github.com/bestdan/workflow-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: devtools
- tashan score: not scored (catalogued only — too little public evidence)
- Adoption: 9.0
- Upkeep: 100.0
- Freshness: 99.0
- Evidence coverage: 84% of the inputs this score can use
- Health: active
- Instruction depth: not yet graded
- Official: no

## Install

```sh
cp -r research-spike-tutorial ~/.claude/skills/
```

## Security audit
Not scanned. We audit npm-published capabilities; this one has no npm package we can resolve, or has not reached the queue. This is not a clean bill of health.

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Measured 2026-09-12 by tashan (https://tashan.sh) from public evidence. Scorer s5.