# Spike Workflow

Spikes are pure exploration — no commitment to build anything.

## Documents Created
- `research.md` — findings and analysis only

## Research Template

```markdown
---
title: "{Title}"
date: {YYYY-MM-DD}
status: in-progress
---

# {Title} — Research

## Question
{What are we trying to understand?}

## Findings

### {Topic 1}
{What we found. Facts, comparisons, analysis.}

## Open Questions
- {What remains unanswered}

## Sources
- {Links, references}
```

## Notes
- Spikes do NOT create briefs, ADRs, or impls
- If the spike concludes with a recommendation to build something, start a new plan (feature or refactor) that references this research
- Spikes can live in `research/` at the repo root if they're broadly useful across plans
