claude-code-superpowers CLAUDE.md

A set of instructions for a repository of engineering skills for AI coding assistants. Each skill is a structured Markdown file teaching a reusable development pattern, with supporting documentation and contribution rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the skill collection, especially when creating a skill, updating its indexes, or running the repository's six-test review standard.
Why use it?
It gives the coding agent the repository structure and required steps for adding, documenting, and checking new skills consistently.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/techymt/claude-code-superpowers/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TechyMT/claude-code-superpowers
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Sonnet 5 $0.00197 $0.00197
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Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code-superpowers CLAUDE.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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to claude-code-superpowers AGENTS.md — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

CLAUDE.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code Superpowers — Repository Guide

This repository is a collection of engineering skills for AI coding assistants. Each skill is a structured markdown file that teaches a specific pattern — extracted from production source code, validated against real implementations, and tested against the six-test standard to ensure it's transferable beyond the source codebase.


Repository structure

skills/          — one subdirectory per skill, each containing SKILL.md
docs/            — REFERENCE.md: domain model, architecture overview, vocabulary
assets/          — banner.svg, banner-footer.svg
CLAUDE.md        — this file: how to work in this repo
AGENTS.md        — same index for Codex/OpenAI agents
GEMINI.md        — skill includes for Gemini CLI
README.md        — user-facing introduction, AI-native format

Adding a new skill

  1. Create skills/[skill-name]/SKILL.md
  2. Follow the skill structure in CONTRIBUTING.md exactly
  3. Add a row to the skills table in README.md, CLAUDE.md, and AGENTS.md
  4. Add an @ include line to GEMINI.md
  5. Run the six-test standard (see CONTRIBUTING.md) before committing

Naming: lowercase, hyphens only, verb-first where possible (creating-skills, error-handling, not skillCreation or ErrorHandling)

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full skill structure, section-by-section requirements, and the six-test standard. That file is the single source of truth for contribution rules.


Reference

docs/REFERENCE.md is the foundational context for this repo — domain model, architecture overview, and vocabulary. Read it before working on any skill.


What not to do

  • Do not add skills that only make sense if you are contributing to the source codebase
  • Do not use source-codebase-specific function names or file paths in the generic sections
  • Do not write code examples to illustrate a pattern — extract real code from the source
  • Do not update CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md with source-codebase-specific internal conventions

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

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claude-code-superpowers CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository TechyMT/claude-code-superpowers (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 987 tokens to every session, about $0.0049 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to claude-code-superpowers AGENTS.md, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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