using-superpowers

using-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code from DollarDill/beads-superpowers. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,191 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for finding and using relevant coding-agent skills at the start of a conversation. It also defines required processes for tasks such as brainstorming, debugging, planning, and implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to guide skill selection and enforce process requirements across coding-agent conversations.
Why use it?
It helps ensure that the appropriate workflow is followed before the agent answers or changes anything.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the beads-superpowers plugin — 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install beads-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,191 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 $0.00029 $0.01191
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00119

Measured 6d ago against content hash b95df64d0c21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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 · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IF A SKILL APPLIES TO YOUR TASK, YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE. YOU MUST USE IT.

This is not negotiable. You cannot rationalize your way out of this.

The Rule

Invoke relevant or requested skills BEFORE any response or action — including clarifying questions, exploring the codebase, or checking files. If it turns out wrong for the situation, you don't have to use it.

Before entering plan mode: if you haven't already brainstormed, invoke the brainstorming skill first.

Then announce "Using [skill] to [purpose]" and follow the skill exactly. If it has a checklist, track it with beads (see Beads below) — TodoWrite is forbidden.

Skill Priority

Process skills come first — they set the approach, implementation skills carry it out. Implementation is spec-backed: it starts from an approved spec or plan, and you state the file you are working from before the first edit.

  • "Let's build X" → beads-superpowers:brainstorming first, then implementation skills.
  • "Fix this bug" → beads-superpowers:systematic-debugging first, then domain skills.
  • No spec or plan file yet, and it's more than a typo? Brainstorm before you edit.

Red Flags

These thoughts mean STOP—you're rationalizing:

Thought Reality
"I need more context first" / "let me explore the codebase first" / "I can check git/files quickly" / "let me gather information first" / "I'll just do this one thing first" Skills tell you HOW. Check BEFORE doing anything.
"This is just a simple question" / "this doesn't need a formal skill" / "this doesn't count as a task" / "the skill is overkill" Action = task. If a skill exists, use it. Simple things become complex.
"I remember this skill" Skills evolve. Read current version.
"This feels productive" Undisciplined action wastes time. Skills prevent this.
"I know what that means" Knowing the concept ≠ using the skill. Invoke it.
"This bead is specified enough — I'll just implement it" Spec-backed: name the spec/plan file, or brainstorm first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 6d ago First seen · 86 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b95df64d0c21

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using-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository DollarDill/beads-superpowers (26 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,191 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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