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Official agent skill

Create Spike

by NVIDIA in NVIDIA/OpenShell

Investigate an OpenShell problem and create a structured issue with technical findings for human disposition.

OfficialApache-2.0Auto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Create Spike

skills CLI
$ npx skills add NVIDIA/OpenShell --skill create-spike -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install NVIDIA/OpenShell create-spike --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/OpenShell.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/create-spike .claude/skills/create-spike && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
create-spike
GitHub stars
15k
Token cost
~680 tokens
SKILL.md length
362 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
23
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Investigate an OpenShell problem and create a structured issue with technical findings for human disposition.

  • Works in 4 steps: Reconstruct the current OpenShell… → Explore the relevant code and tests.… → For a feature, describe the desired… → …
  • Product & Project Management work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Before investigating, Investigate and Record the result
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Create Spike is an agent skill from NVIDIA/OpenShell, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Investigate an OpenShell problem and create a structured issue with technical findings for human disposition.

Its SKILL.md is about 680 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management. The repository describes itself as: OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Product & Project Management work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/create-spike”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Reconstruct the current OpenShell workflow and the claimed gap. For a bug, use reproduction steps requiring only OpenShell deployments; do…
  2. Explore the relevant code and tests. Separate observed behavior, likely cause, and open questions. If the claim cannot be validated, state…
  3. For a feature, describe the desired external behavior and evaluate alternatives, including relevant middleware, interceptors, providers…
  4. For configuration, CLI, SDK, or other UX changes, include notional commands, configuration, or API examples for human review. Leave…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 834b79a. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Create Spike loads about 680 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 31 tokens; SKILL.md has 362 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~31
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~680

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from NVIDIA/OpenShell at commit 834b79a, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© NVIDIA). 362 words, ~680 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/create-spike/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
create-spike
description
Investigate an OpenShell problem and create a structured issue with technical findings for human disposition.
metadata.internal
true

Create Spike

Investigate a specific OpenShell need and record the findings in a GitHub issue. Use create-github-issue for the issue structure and triage-issue for the distinction between technical validation and human acceptance. A spike does not authorize implementation or a roadmap decision.

Before investigating

Ask the human operator to attest that they personally use OpenShell and directly encountered the problem or need the feature for a specific use case. If that context is absent, request it before creating the issue. Do not invent a user story or file a generic platform wish as their first-hand need. Search existing issues to avoid duplication. Follow SECURITY.md for suspected vulnerabilities instead of filing a public issue.

Investigate

  1. Reconstruct the current OpenShell workflow and the claimed gap. For a bug, use reproduction steps requiring only OpenShell deployments; do not install third-party tools solely to demonstrate it.
  2. Explore the relevant code and tests. Separate observed behavior, likely cause, and open questions. If the claim cannot be validated, state the exact missing evidence.
  3. For a feature, describe the desired external behavior and evaluate alternatives, including relevant middleware, interceptors, providers, or other extension points. Prefer an applicable extension when it satisfies the use case; the need to run another service alone does not disqualify it.
  4. For configuration, CLI, SDK, or other UX changes, include notional commands, configuration, or API examples for human review. Leave internal implementation choices open unless they are essential constraints.
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Record the result

Create an issue with User Story, Problem Statement, Impact / Why This Matters, Proposed Design when relevant, Acceptance Criteria, Alternatives Considered, and concise Agent Investigation. Include OpenShell-only reproduction and environment details for bugs. Follow Label Discovery in CONTRIBUTING.md before applying the assessment state that matches the evidence; retrieve every page and resolve unclear meanings rather than hard-coding label names. Do not apply an acceptance state or add the issue to the roadmap.

Report the issue URL, technical findings, uncertainties, and the human disposition needed. For subsequent authorized implementation, use build-from-issue. Every eventual PR from this issue-backed workflow must close an issue covering its own scope; split multi-PR efforts into separate closable issues and use a high-level issue only for tracking.

© NVIDIA, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/create-spike of NVIDIA/OpenShell.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 834b79a

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Categories

Questions about Create Spike

What does Create Spike do?

Investigate an OpenShell problem and create a structured issue with technical findings for human disposition. Create Spike is an agent skill from NVIDIA/OpenShell, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Investigate an OpenShell problem and create a structured issue with technical findings for human disposition.

When should I use Create Spike?

Create Spike fits situations like: product & Project Management work in your project.

How do I install Create Spike in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add NVIDIA/OpenShell --skill create-spike -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/create-spike in NVIDIA/OpenShell) into .claude/skills/create-spike in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Create Spike in Codex?

Run `npx skills add NVIDIA/OpenShell --skill create-spike -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/create-spike in NVIDIA/OpenShell) into .agents/skills/create-spike in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Create Spike in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add NVIDIA/OpenShell --skill create-spike -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/create-spike, .gemini/skills/create-spike, .github/skills/create-spike and .opencode/skills/create-spike in your project.

What does Create Spike need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Create Spike is instructions for the agent only.

Does Create Spike access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Create Spike safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Create Spike use?

Create Spike is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Create Spike use?

About 680 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Create Spike?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Create Spike: User Story Writer (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars), Game Changing Features (openstatusHQ/data-table-filters, 2.3k stars), CCPM Project Management (automazeio/ccpm, 8.4k stars) and Convex Create Component (spokvulcan/poker-planning, 114 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Create Spike?

NVIDIA (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in NVIDIA/OpenShell, which has 15,188 GitHub stars. The repository holds 23 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: NVIDIA/OpenShell on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.