superpowers-v GEMINI.md

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

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/procoders/superpowers-v/gemini-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/procoders/superpowers-v

Made for: Gemini CLI.

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When invoked 2,170 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02170 $0.02170
Opus 5 $0.01085 $0.01085
Sonnet 5 $0.00434 $0.00434
Haiku 4.5 $0.00217 $0.00217

Measured 2d ago against content hash efca0856fa36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superpowers-v GEMINI.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 2d 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.

GEMINI.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 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 after brainstorming:
    • 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 3.1 Pro 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 · 89 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.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 89 lines · 2,170 tokens per session scan A efca0856fa36

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superpowers-v GEMINI.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository procoders/superpowers-v (35 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,170 tokens to every session, about $0.0109 per session on Opus 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.