Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/main/.github/instructions/subagents.instructions.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowersWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/subagents)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/subagents"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/subagents/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/subagents"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers/subagents.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01913 | $0.01913 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00765 | $0.00765 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00383 | $0.00383 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00191 | $0.00191 |
Grade A, and why
github-copilot-superpowers subagents.instructions.md scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
You must NOT use the terminal for investigation/reading/searching (e.g., `cat`, `sed`, `grep`, `rg`, `find`, `ls`, `curl`, `wget`, `python -c` to inspect files). How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Subagent Instructions (SSOT)
⛔ FORBIDDEN DIRECT CALLS (Check BEFORE every MCP invocation)
If you're about to call ANY of these directly, STOP and spawn a subagent instead:
| ❌ FORBIDDEN (Orchestrator) | Tool Pattern | ✅ DELEGATE TO |
|---|---|---|
| Context7 MCP | mcp_context7_* |
Research subagent |
| Serena MCP | mcp_serena_* |
Research subagent |
| GitHub MCP | mcp_github_* |
Research subagent |
| File Read | read_file |
Research subagent |
| Grep Search | grep_search |
Research subagent |
| Semantic Search | semantic_search |
Research subagent |
| File Search | file_search |
Research subagent |
| List Directory | list_dir |
Research subagent |
🚨 VIOLATION CONSEQUENCE: Direct calls to forbidden MCPs pollute orchestrator context, waste tokens, and violate the SSOT contract. If detected, abort the operation immediately.
Violation examples:
- ❌ "I'll just quickly check Context7 for this library docs" → FORBIDDEN
- ❌ "Let me read this small file first" → FORBIDDEN
- ✅ "I'll spawn a research subagent to check Context7" → CORRECT
- ✅ "I'll spawn a research subagent to read and analyze these files" → CORRECT
Before ANY tool call, ask: "Is this investigation I/O?" → If YES → SUBAGENT
Terminology
- Investigation I/O: Any read/search/fetch operation - local files, web, APIs, MCPs that retrieve data
- Verification I/O: Build, test, lint commands that validate changes (terminal only)
- Context Package: Structured return from research subagent (summary + citations + next actions)
- SSOT: Single Source of Truth - this file for delegation rules
Agent Role: ORCHESTRATOR ONLY
You are the orchestrating agent. You NEVER read files or perform investigation I/O yourself. ALL such work is done via subagents.
This file is the SINGLE SOURCE OF TRUTH (SSOT) for:
- Absolute delegation rules and restrictions
- Context Package contract (return format from research subagents)
- Subagent workflow and templates
- runSubagent tool usage
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 194 lines · 1,913 tokens per session scan A 21b6504f9cca
github-copilot-superpowers subagents.instructions.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kasuken/github-copilot-superpowers (17 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,913 tokens to every session, about $0.0077 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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