superpowers

A collection of software-development workflow instructions covering test-driven development, systematic debugging, and structured planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Managing coding tasks that need planning, tests, debugging, and a consistent development process.
Why use it?
It provides guidance for moving from a planned change through implementation, debugging, and verification.

Cursor rule

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 rules/michaelpersonal/superpowers-cursor-rules/superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michaelpersonal/superpowers-cursor-rules
Per session 7,429 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 7,429 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.07429 $0.07429
Opus 5 $0.03714 $0.03714
Sonnet 5 $0.01486 $0.01486
Haiku 4.5 $0.00743 $0.00743

Measured 2d ago against content hash 43cde831ffdc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superpowers 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.

superpowers.mdc · 1,075 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 1,075 lines · 7,429 tokens per session scan A 43cde831ffdc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

superpowers is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository michaelpersonal/superpowers-cursor-rules (17 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 7,429 tokens to every session, about $0.0371 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.