using-superpowers

using-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code from gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4. It costs 29 tokens per session (3,898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for discovering and applying other coding-agent skills at the start of a conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting sessions, finding applicable skills, handling worktree consent, and applying rules to specification, planning, and code changes.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to choose relevant instructions before taking action.

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 superpowers-deepseek-v4 plugin — 19 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Starting sessions, finding applicable skills, handling worktree consent, and applying rules to specification, planning, and code changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4/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 gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4 --skill using-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers-deepseek-v4, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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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 3,898 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 $0.03898
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.01949
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00780
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00390

Measured 10d ago against content hash db3d81d878e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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 · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

5.1.3 (2026-06-13)

Worktree gate prepended + spec/plan coverage

  • confirming-worktree-before-edit prepended to session bootstrap — injected before using-superpowers in session-start and GEMINI.md; gate priority #0 in skill discovery.
  • Spec/plan writes covered — gate applies to all project file persistent writes including docs/superpowers/specs/, plans/, brainstorms/*-brainstorm.md, and *-plan-progress.md.
  • brainstorming / writing-plans Step 0.5 — invoke confirming-worktree-before-edit before first file write.
  • Plan mode no longer blanket-skips — only Ask/read-only contexts where edits are impossible skip the gate.
  • SPEC_PLAN test phasetests/claude-code/test-worktree-consent-before-edit.sh.

5.1.2 (2026-05-25)

Worktree consent gate before edits

  • NEW SKILL superpowers-deepseek-v4:confirming-worktree-before-edit — session-level gate: ask once per session whether to open an isolated worktree before any file edit (source, config, or skill documents). Records choice; delegates setup to using-git-worktrees when accepted.
  • using-git-worktrees — consent deduplicated: honors session record from confirming-worktree-before-edit; legacy direct-invoke fallback retained.
  • Mainline edit skills wired — test-driven-development, subagent-driven-development, executing-plans, systematic-debugging (Phase 4), dispatching-parallel-agents, receiving-code-review, writing-skills, and using-superpowers bootstrap.

5.1.1 (2026-05-23)

Plugin version bump — enables claude plugin update / marketplace reinstall when the install cache lags behind git (same semver 5.1.0 did not trigger updates).

Spec & plan workflow

  • Spec and plan pipelines now include independent TDD and BDD review tracks (design: docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-21-spec-plan-tdd-bdd-review-design.md).
  • brainstorming: specs must include Acceptance Scenarios before Phase B multi-reviewer.
  • writing-plans: each task must include Gherkin Acceptance Criteria.

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 10d ago First seen · 237 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A db3d81d878e3

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using-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository gylove1994/superpowers-deepseek-v4 (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 3,898 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 2026-08-31.

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