prototype
An agent skill used for prototyping.
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prototype (mattpocock/skills) improved from 0.36 to 0.93 on Opus 5.5.
A Spike deliberately does not pursue mergeable code quality, only the single piece of information of "whether it can work"; a prototype, by contrast, is written to evolve into a product. The practical criterion for distinguishing the two is: if you would delete the code after the exploration fails, then it is a Spike.
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prototype (mattpocock/skills) improved from 0.36 to 0.93 on Opus 5.5.
50%UnverifiedA Spike deliberately does not pursue mergeable code quality, only the single piece of information of "whether it can work"; a prototype, by contrast, is written to evolve into a product. The practical criterion for distinguishing the two is: if you would delete the code after the exploration fails, then it is a Spike.
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