using-petropowers

using-petropowers is a skill for Claude Code from kucherenko/petropowers. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,718 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of using-superpowers, MIT.

A rule set that tells a coding assistant how to discover and apply task-specific instructions called skills before replying.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps assistants choose the right skills for coding, writing, research, and other tasks, including before asking clarifying questions.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance that the assistant skips relevant instructions or handles a task inconsistently.

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 petropowers plugin — 26 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps assistants choose the right skills for coding, writing, research, and other tasks, including before asking clarifying questions.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install petropowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kucherenko/petropowers/using-petropowers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kucherenko/petropowers/using-petropowers.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,718 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 81% 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 $0.00031 $0.01718
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00859
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00172

Measured 8d ago against content hash f787abb47b9d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-petropowers 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 8d 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

81% identical to using-superpowers — 62 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.

skills/using-petropowers/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 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. This is not optional. You cannot rationalize your way out of this.

This applies to ALL creative work regardless of perceived simplicity.

Instruction Priority

PetroPowers skills override default system prompt behavior, but user instructions always take precedence:

  1. User's explicit instructions (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, AGENTS.md, direct requests) — highest priority
  2. PetroPowers skills — override default system behavior where they conflict
  3. Default system prompt — lowest priority

If CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, or AGENTS.md says "don't use TDD" and a skill says "always use TDD," follow the user's instructions. The user is in control.

How to Access Skills

In Claude Code: Use the Skill tool. When you invoke a skill, its content is loaded and presented to you—follow it directly. Never use the Read tool on skill files.

In Copilot CLI: Use the skill tool. Skills are auto-discovered from installed plugins. The skill tool works the same as Claude Code's Skill tool.

In Gemini CLI: Skills activate via the activate_skill tool. Gemini loads skill metadata at session start and activates the full content on demand.

In other environments: Check your platform's documentation for how skills are loaded.

Platform Adaptation

Skills use Claude Code tool names. Non-CC platforms: see references/copilot-tools.md (Copilot CLI), references/codex-tools.md (Codex) for tool equivalents. Gemini CLI users get the tool mapping loaded automatically via GEMINI.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 8d ago First seen · 154 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A f787abb47b9d

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using-petropowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository kucherenko/petropowers (11 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,718 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to using-superpowers, differing in 62 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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