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---
name: cad-spike
description: "Spike - a time-boxed experiment resolving one unknown before you bet on it, risk-first, with a validated | invalidated | inconclusive verdict"
argument-hint: "<the question or hypothesis to resolve>"
allowed-tools:
- Read
- Write
- Edit
- Bash
- Grep
- Glob
- AskUserQuestion
---
<objective>
Answer one unknown with evidence before a plan commits to it - "will this
approach work", "is this library fast enough", "does this API do what we need".
The discipline is what makes it useful: falsifiable criteria written BEFORE the
experiment, the riskiest assumption tested first so a dead end dies fast, and an
honest verdict. The code is throwaway; the SPIKE.md verdict is the deliverable.
</objective>
<execution_context>
@${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/workflows/spike.md
</execution_context>
<process>
Run the spike workflow end-to-end. Write the Given/When/Then criteria before
building anything, order them risk-first, and stop the moment a risk-first
criterion invalidates the approach. Never soften an invalidated result into
"inconclusive" to save the idea - a spike that kills a bad approach is a success.
</process>
