cyberneticlibrary

Run throwaway prototypes to validate feasibility

spikeskillsetup L1377,536
openclaw/openclaw
What it does

Run throwaway prototypes to validate feasibility or compare approaches

Best for

Test technical risk before committing to production without burning weeks

Inputs
  • · Feasibility question
  • · optional: competing approaches (A/B)
  • · optional: edge case to stress-test
Outputs
  • · Verdict (VALIDATED/PARTIAL/INVALIDATED)
  • · evidence (exact commands/measurements)
  • · recommendation (ship/adjust/avoid)
Requires
  • · Any build tools relevant to the spike (minimal)
  • · no package sprawl or Docker
Preconditions

Clear feasibility question; external deps health-checked before build

Failure modes

External dep unavailable; spike code doesn't isolate question; edge case missed; invalidated verdict blocks shipping

Trust signals
  • · Smallest runnable artifact
  • · Edge case testing
  • · Verdict template enforced
  • · repo-local output (spikes/NNN-slug/)