superpowers-v: Instructions file for Gemini CLI

GEMINI.md

superpowers-v GEMINI.md is an instructions file for Gemini CLI from procoders/superpowers-v. It costs 2,314 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

An experimental instruction guide for using Compound V, a companion to the Superpowers coding workflow, with the Gemini command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for adding research, planning, and memory steps around brainstorming and execution phases in a Superpowers-based workflow.
Why use it?
It explains how the integration is intended to work while making clear that it has not been tested on a real Gemini installation.

Instructions file for Gemini CLI

Written for Gemini CLI: the file is GEMINI.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

This is procoders/superpowers-v's own configuration. It tells Gemini CLI 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
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/procoders/superpowers-v

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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.

GEMINI.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Compound V — Gemini CLI Shim (🧪 experimental, untested)

This file documents how the plugin's content would be used in Gemini CLI. The shim has not been tested on a real Gemini CLI install — the manifest format for Gemini CLI extensions is version-specific and the maintainer has not verified compatibility. Treat this as a starting point, not a working integration.

What this plugin does

Compound V is a sidekick to Superpowers. It intercepts the four Superpowers phase transitions (pre-brainstorm recon → brainstorming → writing-plans → execution) and adds:

  1. Gated pre-brainstorm recon (Trigger 0) 🧪 description-driven, with a reminder-only hook backstop (hooks/brainstorm-trigger0-nudge.sh, a Claude Code hook that nudges when the Skill tool invokes superpowers:brainstorming — a reminder, not enforcement): before a brainstorm begins on an unfamiliar topic, a gated, bounded research pass (bundled deep-research if present, 3–6 parallel WebSearch otherwise, skip-with-notice if neither) writes an anti-anchoring recon doc to docs/superpowers/recon/ that the brainstorm — and later pre-flights 1B/1C — read first. Gate order: plumbing-skip → V-memory KB hit → brainstorm.deep_research config (ask default / auto / off hard kill-switch). Recon is evidence, never a routing input. Also 🧪 description-driven: batched elicitation — ≥3 independent clarifying questions may batch into ONE screen via the surface ladder — Visual Companion form if accepted this session, else the harness's structured-question tool, else sequential (companion acceptance gates only the top surface); dependent chains stay sequential; when unsure → sequential; see skills/compound-v/brainstorm-elicitation.md.
  2. Three parallel pre-flights once the user has approved the spec (they fire when superpowers:writing-plans is invoked, never at spec-write time):
    • Code archaeology (existing-code reality)
    • Domain-expert advisor with three-layer audience search (product/regulatory reality)
    • Library/doc validator via Context7 MCP (dependency currency)
  3. Disjoint File Partition Map enforcement inside writing-plans, which materializes a manifest.yaml — the machine-readable contract that drives dispatch
  4. Manifest-driven dispatch on the most capable model available (Gemini 4 Argon or equivalent), with a git diff scope gate after every job (a worker that writes outside its write_allowed list is BLOCKED and never merges) and crash-resume via a state.json run directory

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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 GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository procoders/superpowers-v (41 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,314 tokens to every session, about $0.0093 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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