using-humanities-superpowers

using-humanities-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code from icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers. It costs 36 tokens per session (4,890 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coordinator for humanities research work, such as research projects, manuscripts, reviews, and submissions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to sequence research tasks, handle failed checks, preserve unfinished work for later, and assess whether a manuscript is ready for submission.
Why use it?
It helps determine what stage the work is in, which research skills are needed, and whether unresolved issues require a decision before continuing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the humanities-superpowers plugin — 14 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers/using-humanities-superpowers
Any agent
npx skills add icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers --skill using-humanities-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install humanities-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,890 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00036 $0.04890
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.02445
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00978
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00489

Measured 6d ago against content hash 99a98fbdb5a3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-humanities-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-humanities-superpowers/SKILL.md · 495 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 495 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Humanities Superpowers

Purpose

Act as the orchestration layer for Humanities Superpowers. Diagnose the current research state, select the smallest sufficient skill sequence, enforce dependencies, interpret gate results, and preserve a resumable record of unresolved work.

This skill is not a generic planner and not an autonomous paper-writing agent. It coordinates scholarly operations while keeping the researcher's decisions, source limits, and responsibility visible.

When to use

Use this skill:

  • at the beginning of a humanities research, manuscript, review, or submission task;
  • when several substantive skills may apply;
  • when the user asks for an end-to-end workflow;
  • when the current research stage is unclear;
  • after a gate returns CONDITIONAL PASS or FAIL;
  • when work must resume from an earlier session;
  • when a user asks whether a manuscript is ready, complete, publishable, or submission-ready;
  • when the agent must decide whether to proceed, pause, roll back, or request a researcher decision.

Do not use this skill for a simple transformation that requires no scholarly diagnosis, such as converting a confirmed bibliography from one citation style to another, unless the request also asks for verification.

Contract

Accepts

  • a research request, manuscript task, reviewer task, or submission task;
  • optional research materials, source records, previous gate reports, or a prior session record;
  • optional explicit constraints such as discipline, corpus, venue, language, deadline, and desired output.

Requires

  • a requested outcome or a sufficiently clear immediate task;
  • enough information to classify the current state, or permission to mark the state as UNKNOWN and request the smallest missing input;
  • preservation of provenance and verification states from supplied materials.

Produces

  • a ResearchState diagnosis;
  • a minimal ordered skill route;
  • a prerequisite and input check;
  • a routing decision: PROCEED, PAUSE, ROLLBACK, RESEARCHER_DECISION_REQUIRED, or STOP;
  • a session record suitable for resuming work;
  • a gate-aware handoff to the next valid skill;
  • open friction, evidence conflict, judgment, gate-validity, and possible epistemic-return summaries.

Read the full file on GitHub · 495 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. 6d ago First seen · 495 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 99a98fbdb5a3

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using-humanities-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository icerain-cmd/humanities-superpowers (16 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 4,890 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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