using-superpowers

using-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code from brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator. It costs 122 tokens per session (2,723 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A required workflow guide for technical tasks handled by an AI coding assistant. It decides which development process or supporting skill should be used before coding, debugging, planning, or reviewing.

In plain words
What is it for?
It routes tasks such as implementing features, fixing bugs, refactoring code, optimizing systems, and choosing a suitable workflow.
Why use it?
It prevents technical work from starting without the relevant checks, process, or specialist guidance. This can make work more consistent across different kinds of coding tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the superpowers-orchestrator plugin — 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit It routes tasks such as implementing features, fixing bugs, refactoring code, optimizing systems, and choosing a suitable workflow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator/using-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 brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator --skill using-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-orchestrator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 2 agents, 6 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,723 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.
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 $0.00122 $0.02723
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01362
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00545
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00272

Measured 7d ago against content hash 6ad804f6fc2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-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 7d 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/using-superpowers/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Superpowers

Trigger Conditions

This skill MUST be invoked when any of the following occur:

  • A new session starts with a technical request
  • The user gives a new task or changes topic mid-session
  • Any technical work is about to begin without a skill selected
  • The user asks "what should I use" or "which workflow"

Exception: Micro tasks (typo fix, single variable rename, 1-line config change) can skip the entry sequence entirely. Just do them.

When the User Names a Specific Skill

If the user's prompt references a skill by name (e.g., "use brainstorming," "use context management," "run verification"), that is a Skill tool invocation request:

  1. Still complete Entry Sequence steps 1–6 (token-efficiency, staleness check, etc.) — these are always-on prerequisites, not routing.
  2. Invoke the named skill via the Skill tool. Do not re-implement the skill's purpose with ad-hoc agents, manual file reads, or improvised workflows. The skill contains tested, structured logic — use it.
  3. Skip complexity classification and routing (step 7) — the user already chose the route.

This is the most common cause of entry sequence bypass: the AI interprets "use X skill" as a goal to achieve creatively rather than as a tool invocation. It is always a tool invocation.

Instruction Priority (highest to lowest)

  1. Explicit user instructions in the current conversation
  2. Project-level CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md
  3. Superpowers skill instructions

If a user explicitly overrides a skill's behavior, follow the user. Skills are defaults, not mandates.

Core Rule

Before technical execution, select workflow skills explicitly and follow them.

Technical execution includes code edits, debugging, planning, review, test status claims, and branch integration actions.

Entry Sequence

  1. Invoke token-efficiency at session start — applies to all sessions, always.
  2. Fresh project gate — evaluate both conditions in order:
    • The user's request contains creation/build intent: any of "build", "create", "make", "implement", "scaffold", "set up", "write", "generate", "develop", "start"
    • Run a filesystem check: ls project-map.md 2>/dev/null — gate only fires if the file does not exist

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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. 7d ago First seen · 192 lines · 122 tokens per session scan A 6ad804f6fc2a

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using-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository brunob54/superpowers-orchestrator (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 2,723 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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