superpowers-v: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

superpowers-v AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from procoders/superpowers-v. It costs 6,662 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for Compound V, an experimental companion to the Superpowers workflow for coding agents. It adds a preliminary research step before brainstorming and describes how the workflow maps to Codex and other agent tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in projects that follow Superpowers phases to run or skip a bounded research pass, save reconnaissance notes, and connect those phases to Codex-compatible commands.
Why use it?
It helps an agent gather background information before proposing solutions, reducing the risk that brainstorming starts from incomplete assumptions.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: PreToolUse hook event, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

This is procoders/superpowers-v's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on superpowers-v itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything superpowers-v configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to procoders/superpowers-v. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/procoders/superpowers-v/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/procoders/superpowers-v

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.06662 $0.06662
Opus 5.5 $0.02665 $0.02665
Sonnet 5.5 $0.01332 $0.01332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00666 $0.00666

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5a9bbeebb1c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superpowers-v AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 8d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compound V — Codex / Universal Agent Shim (🧪 experimental, untested)

This file documents how the plugin's content would be consumed by tools that read AGENTS.md from a project root (Codex CLI and similar). It has not been tested on a real Codex install — tool-name mappings and dispatch syntax are based on documentation and may need adaptation per your harness version.

Requirements

Claude Code ≥ 2.1.219. Compound V 3.0 hands execution to the native Workflow runtime and to native hook events (PreToolUse, UserPromptSubmit, PostCompact, Stop); older versions lack them. The SessionStart banner reads claude --version once and appends a single warning line when the running version is below that floor.

On measurement, stated up front. No speed or cost claim ships with 3.0. The observation that motivated proportionate tests — a small change running a full suite — was not reproduced during the design recon, so the test-scoping defaults are principle-derived, not measured. The scoped floor is early feedback and does not restore what a full suite guarantees; the merge-blocking CI run does, and it always runs. The pipeline records selected-test counts and measured-only durations so a future release can speak from real data instead.

One ambient cost worth knowing before you install. The lane-enforcement hook runs on every Write/Edit/Bash tool call in every session, and its cost depends on the machine — it is a small table, not a single number — because it first has to find an interpreter that can read a manifest. Measure it on your machine. This file publishes no figure: the repo carries no measurement harness to keep one honest, and every number it used to print was a one-off on one laptop. The shape to expect: the unresolved path — the ordinary human session, and the only path a session that never dispatches will ever take — is cheapest where the first candidate interpreter can import yaml (on macOS, /usr/bin/python3) and pays exactly one viability probe, and dearest where no candidate has PyYAML and the hook pays three probes (two import yaml, one -c pass). Once a job resolves and the manifest is parsed it costs more again, whether that write is then allowed or denied — the verdict has never been the expensive part; resolution and the manifest parse are. What makes your own figure worth anything: mean of 50 invocations per cell, the bare-interpreter floor taken in the same round and the round discarded when that floor drifts, and the unresolved path measured somewhere actually unresolved — a checkout that a live run's lane map claims measures the resolved path and calls it unresolved. Reproduce it from a checkout root — the total divided by 50:

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 lines

Changes

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.

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superpowers-v AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository procoders/superpowers-v (41 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 6,662 tokens to every session, about $0.0266 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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