using-superpowers

using-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Crearize/ai-dev-helm. It costs 17 tokens per session (491 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of using-superpowers, MIT.

A process guide that requires available skills to be found and used before responding to a conversation. Skills are instruction packages that teach a coding agent how to handle particular tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to enforce skill discovery and invocation at the beginning of conversations, including before asking clarifying questions.
Why use it?
It helps ensure relevant task-specific instructions are followed consistently from the start of a request.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to enforce skill discovery and invocation at the beginning of conversations, including before asking clarifying questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/crearize/ai-dev-helm/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 Crearize/ai-dev-helm --skill using-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Crearize/ai-dev-helm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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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.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 491 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00017 $0.00491
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00196
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00049

Measured 14d ago against content hash 6168a1f11517, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 14d 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 using-superpowers — 68 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.

scripts/skill-overlays/using-superpowers/SKILL.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

Using Superpowers

Use a skill when the user requests it or its workflow materially helps the task. Read the relevant skill once before applying it, and briefly state its purpose. A matching keyword or a small chance of relevance alone does not require loading a skill. Ordinary questions and read-only exploration can proceed directly.

User instructions and project policy take precedence. Reuse decisions and authorization already present in the conversation; do not restart an approved design or ask again merely because a skill was loaded. Ask only for information or authorization that is still needed. After the design approval, "ask your human partner" in an upstream skill means: decide within the approved design, record a deviation, and report it in the final message; stop only for the exceptions in documents/development/development-policy.md §1.0 "承認後の進め方".

Scale process to the work, not the gate. Every implementation change passes the brainstorming Design Gate (design review, then user approval) before code is written, except the exemption defined there (a typo fix that involves no design choice, or an obviously correct change of a few lines; a fix within an already approved design, such as a quality-check finding, that does not change that design needs no new gate); a bounded change keeps its design short and can then be implemented by the parent with appropriate verification. Use writing-plans for dependencies or a useful handoff. Independent bounded tasks may be delegated when doing so reduces total effort; having subagent tools does not require using them.

The project's quality-check remains the independent final quality gate. Skill workflows do not add per-task reviews or another whole-branch review on top of it. Keep the project's review budget, test oracles, and evidence requirements.

For tool syntax consult only the reference relevant to your runtime, and trust the actual available tools and instructions over examples:

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 14d ago Changed 6168a1f11517
  2. 15d ago Changed · +1 lines b9bbb024f1b7
  3. 18d ago Changed db72e832f9c3
  4. 1mo ago Changed · -43 lines · -11 tokens per session a20b7dc1c0e2
  5. 1mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 30f2ab78e20d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository Crearize/ai-dev-helm (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 491 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to using-superpowers, differing in 68 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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