superpowers

superpowers is a skill for Claude Code from alebgl77/claude-inc. It costs 102 tokens per session (1,059 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured set of 14 software-development procedures covering planning, coding, testing, debugging, review, security, release, and post-incident learning. TDD, or test-driven development, means writing a failing test before the code that makes it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
Brainstorming approaches, writing specifications and plans, setting up project scaffolding, using TDD, debugging, refactoring, reviewing code, checking performance and security, documenting work, and preparing releases or postmortems.
Why use it?
It gives developers a repeatable way to handle feature work and difficult bugs instead of relying on ad hoc changes. It also provides checks before code is merged or released.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-inc plugin — 64 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents shipped together

Good fit Brainstorming approaches, writing specifications and plans, setting up project scaffolding, using TDD, debugging, refactoring, reviewing code, checking performance and security, documenting work, and preparing releases or postmortems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alebgl77/claude-inc/superpowers
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alebgl77/claude-inc --skill superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alebgl77/claude-inc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-inc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 64 skills, 3 commands, 11 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for superpowers

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for superpowers

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 102 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,059 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00102 $0.01059
Opus 5.5 $0.00041 $0.00424
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00212
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00106

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 40811176b8fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

skills/superpowers/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Superpowers — Skill Forge

"14-skill power pack"

When to use

  • End-to-end feature work that deserves discipline — "let's build this properly, not vibe-code it"
  • A bug that resists poking — "debug this systematically", "it fails randomly and I'm lost"
  • Pre-merge and pre-ship gates — "review my diff", "run a security pass", "are we ready to release?"
  • After an incident — "write the postmortem"
  • Any single phase named outright — spec it, plan it, refactor it, profile it, document it

The 14 protocols

# Protocol Core move
P1 Brainstorm Generate 3+ approaches, score against constraints, pick one on the record.
P2 Spec Acceptance criteria and non-goals written before any code.
P3 Plan Ordered steps, each independently verifiable.
P4 Scaffold Skeleton with tooling wired — lint, test runner, entry point, CI hook.
P5 TDD Red-green-refactor: failing test first, minimal pass, then clean.
P6 Systematic debugging Reproduce → isolate → hypothesize → fix → regress.
P7 Refactoring Behavior-preserving change under green tests, one move at a time.
P8 Code review Line-level and design-level pass — correctness, security, perf, readability.
P9 Performance pass Measure first, profile the hot path, fix, re-measure.
P10 Security pass Inputs, authn/z, secrets, dependencies, injection surfaces.
P11 Docs README, API reference, runbook — written from the reader's seat.
P12 Git hygiene Small atomic commits, imperative messages, clean history.
P13 Release checklist Version, changelog, tests green, rollback plan, ship, verify live.
P14 Postmortem Blameless timeline, root cause, action items with owners.

Workflow

  1. Identify the task's phase: idea, build, break/fix, ship, or learn.
  2. Pick the matching protocol(s) from the table and announce the pick — "Running P6 — systematic debugging."
  3. Execute the protocol as concrete steps. P6, for example: reproduce deterministically, isolate by bisecting code/data/env, state one falsifiable hypothesis, fix, add a regression test.
  4. For a full feature, chain: P1 → P2 → P3 → P4 → P5 → P8 → P11 → P12 → P13. Skip a link only by saying so and why.
  5. End every protocol with an artifact — spec file, failing-then-passing test, review notes, changelog — never just narrative.
  6. If the task changes phase mid-flight (the build surfaces a bug), switch protocols explicitly; don't blur two into mush.
  7. Log each run in the output format below and hand the next protocol its inputs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 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. 1mo ago First seen · 78 lines · 102 tokens per session scan A 40811176b8fe

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superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository alebgl77/claude-inc (19 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 102 tokens to every session and 1,059 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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