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Spike

Investigate feasibility and compare technical options before committing to implementation, ending with a recorded decision.

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Spike

Investigate feasibility and compare technical options before committing to implementation, ending with a recorded decision.

Members: Focus, Nova, Orion, and Radar. Includes their exact Orqestria profiles, portraits and 42 supporting skills. Leads and independent reviewers are assigned to each agent-led step.

  • Investigation — Lead: Radar. Review: Orion and Nova.
  • Decision — Lead: Orion. Review: Nova and Focus.

Install the package, review and trust the skill sources, then enable the included agents and relevant skills in your project. Select this workflow for a work item. The configured leads and reviewers must be available in the project; model providers must be signed in. You can adjust assignments in the workflow editor. Installation does not replace your existing default workflows.

What is included

Agents 4

Skills in this workflow 42

Explore the skills assigned to the workflow steps and their agents. Open a card for a clear explanation, a practical example and the agents who can use it.

Focused technical research

Narrows technical research to a decision with real constraints, existing capabilities and a manageable set of viable alternatives.

research-problem-framing-candidate-discovery

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Inspect source repositories

Checks implementation, dependencies and tests at a fixed revision to substantiate technical capability claims.

source-code-repository-inspection

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Grade technical research evidence

Labels capability claims according to documentation, inspected source, executed experiments or explicit inference.

evidence-grading-research-verification

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Architecture planning

Shapes the smallest viable architecture around measurable requirements, explicit data ownership and the operational trade-offs your team faces.

architecture-planning

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Compare engineering options

Helps choose between realistic solutions by considering development effort, ongoing maintenance and the consequences of changing course later.

trade-off-lifecycle-cost-analysis

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Business project foundations

Helps choose a reusable application foundation by comparing actual workflow fit, ownership effort and alternatives to building from scratch.

business-project-foundations

Included files 4
  • SKILL.md
  • references/README.md
  • references/adoption-checklist.md
  • references/repositories.json

License and supply-chain risk

Reviews dependency obligations and operational requirements alongside package provenance and installation behavior.

license-supply-chain-operational-risk

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Integration adoption planning

Turns a technical recommendation into a concrete integration plan with local touchpoints, lifecycle boundaries and visible uncertainty.

integration-architecture-adoption-plan

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Agent runtime and MCP research

Examines agent execution loops, persistence, tool protocols and permission boundaries behind framework demonstrations and marketing claims.

ai-agent-runtime-mcp-research

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Protocol specification analysis

Translates protocol requirements into an integration contract and checks where reference implementations or libraries differ from the specification.

protocol-spec-reference-analysis

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Isolated prototypes and benchmarks

Tests a risky technical assumption in a small controlled experiment before committing to an implementation approach.

empirical-micro-benchmark-prototyping

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Adapt open-source code with attribution

Adapts a small stable algorithm when its verified permissive license and limited dependencies make that appropriate.

oss-code-adaptation-attribution

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Research breaking changes

Turns release history and interface differences into a concrete migration impact map for your codebase.

migration-breaking-change-intelligence

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Research algorithms

Turns a research paper’s mechanism into a practical algorithm evaluation, with explicit assumptions, a simple baseline and a testable implementation boundary.

academic-paper-algorithm-translation

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Codebase discovery

Helps you navigate an existing project by locating important files, system connections and the right place for a scoped change.

codebase-discovery

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Implementation task breakdown

Converts a specification into ordered, reviewable delivery tasks with working user outcomes and explicit acceptance evidence.

task-breakdown

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Backend implementation

Implements server behavior in tested, coherent increments that preserve business rules, transaction integrity and visible failure states.

backend-implementation

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Recoverable database migrations

Plans schema changes that preserve data and allow old and new application versions to coexist during transition.

database-migrations

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Connect systems and services

Connects your application to other systems. Defines how they exchange data, handle errors and recover when a service is temporarily unavailable.

api-integration

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Reliable background jobs

Makes queued work safe to repeat and recover by treating duplicate delivery and partial completion as normal operational cases.

background-jobs

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Operational observability

Connects logs, metrics and traces to concrete questions about failures, performance and user impact.

observability

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Safe legacy refactoring

Restructures legacy code in focused steps while recording current behavior and keeping intentional changes distinct from accidental regressions.

legacy-refactoring

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Secure application development

Checks how your application handles sign-ins, forms, uploads and sensitive data. Helps prevent malicious input and unintended data exposure.

secure-coding

Included files 2
  • LICENSE.txt
  • SKILL.md

Testing and reliability

Builds tests for individual functions and complete workflows, helping catch errors and prevent previously fixed problems from returning.

testing-discipline

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Focused code changes

Keeps a code change complete but reviewable by following local conventions and limiting edits and dependencies to the requested outcome.

clean-changes

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Requirements and acceptance review

Checks whether a complete user journey has clear, consistent and testable expected behavior.

requirements-acceptance-review

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Risk-based exploratory testing

Explores high-impact workflows with targeted questions and adapts testing when unexpected behavior appears.

risk-based-exploratory-testing

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Edge cases and transitions

Finds behavior gaps at input boundaries, interruptions and interactions between otherwise working features.

edge-cases-state-transitions

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Evidence-based QA reports

Produces release-relevant QA findings that separate verified defects, uncertain requirements and coverage limitations with evidence and appropriate severity.

bug-evidence-qa-reporting

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Verify fixes and nearby regressions

Replays the original failure and checks directly related cases to confirm a fix addresses its cause.

fix-verification-targeted-regression

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Browser and device QA

Verifies responsive layouts and real interactions across specified browser sizes, input methods and navigation states.

browser-cross-device-qa

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

API integration checks

Tests service boundaries with invalid input, overlapping requests and partial outages to reveal inconsistent or duplicated outcomes.

api-integration-qa

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Role and permission scenarios

Tests permissions across personas, record ownership and membership changes, including indirect data surfaces.

roles-permission-scenarios

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Workflow data consistency

Checks that lifecycle changes agree across lists, details, events and persistent state, including partial failures.

data-workflow-consistency

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Technical research for QA

Checks version-matched primary sources so tests distinguish application defects from documented platform behavior.

technical-research-for-qa

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Business goal alignment

Checks whether proposed work serves a documented user outcome and suggests a proportionate alternative when technical scope grows beyond it.

business-goal-alignment

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Scope and acceptance criteria

Defines a finite complete task and keeps optional enhancements from silently expanding implementation.

scope-control-acceptance-criteria

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Engineering simplicity review

Finds unnecessary layers and speculative generalization while preserving essential correctness, security and recovery behavior.

engineering-simplicity-review

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Smallest complete solution

Finds a narrow end-to-end solution that reuses existing capabilities while retaining the quality needed for everyday operation.

minimal-complete-solution-design

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Scope technical experiments

Defines a small time-bounded experiment when an important decision depends on a genuinely unknown technical fact.

technical-spike-scoping

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Refactoring value review

Evaluates whether restructuring removes a real obstacle to current work and keeps justified cleanup separate from speculative churn.

refactoring-value-review

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

Delivery completion review

Determines whether delivery meets the accepted goal and distinguishes genuine completion blockers from optional future polish.

delivery-closure-review

Included files 1
  • SKILL.md

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Requirements

  • Orqestria installed on your computer.
  • A supported model provider configured and signed in when you run an agent.