Spike Summary

Spike Summary is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by product-on-purpose in pm-skills.

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Install Spike Summary

Copy Spike Summary into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills/tree/main/skills/develop-spike-summary ~/.claude/skills/develop-spike-summary

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/develop-spike-summary/SKILL.md in product-on-purpose/pm-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/develop-spike-summary
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Spike Summary does

Spike Summary documents the results of a time-boxed technical or design exploration, including the question, approach, evidence, and recommendation. Use it after a spike ends so the team can decide whether to proceed.

Spike Summary is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Spike Summary comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentskills, ai-skills, claude-code and claude-desktop.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Spike Summary

A spike summary documents the results of a time-boxed exploration - a focused investigation to reduce uncertainty before committing to implementation. Spikes answer specific questions like "Can we integrate with this API?" or "Is this technology viable for our use case?" The summary captures findings so the team can make informed decisions without the spike participants needing to repeat explanations.

When to Use

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Spike Summary

What else does product-on-purpose publish alongside Spike Summary?
Spike Summary is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from product-on-purpose/pm-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Acceptance Criteria, Architecture Decision Record and Build Risk Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Spike Summary does, and is maintained by product-on-purpose in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the product-on-purpose/pm-skills page.
How does Spike Summary compare to other Writing skills?
Spike Summary ranks #713 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Spike Summary against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.