# Research Spike

> Use when a repo is running a long research spike — questions gating a decision before something gets built — and you need to file a question, record its answer, register the obligation an answer creates, defer work to a stub or existing destination, backfill a free-form open-questions doc into structured records, promote a track's proposed decision, or check convergence — what still blocks a decision, whether obligations are piling up faster than questions close, whether the spike is converging or just feels stuck. Also for auditing a devdocs/research/ tree or reviewing an obligation ledger.

## Facts
- Page: https://tashan.sh/capability/skill-bestdan-research-spike
- tashan id: skill:bestdan/research-spike
- Source: https://github.com/bestdan/workflow-skills
- Type: skill
- Category: ai
- 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 ~/.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.