using-superpowers

using-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from oyi77/1ai-skills. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,868 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow guide for finding and using skills before responding to a task.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the beginning of conversations where the agent must discover and invoke relevant skills.
Why use it?
It helps an agent avoid skipping available instructions or capabilities when starting work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the 1ai-skills plugin — 187 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it at the beginning of conversations where the agent must discover and invoke relevant skills.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oyi77/1ai-skills/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 oyi77/1ai-skills --skill using-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oyi77/1ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install 1ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 187 skills, 4 commands.

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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 1,868 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 24
    Skill grants unrestricted tool access without appropriate constraints. An agent with unfettered tool access can perform arbitrary actions including file modification, network requests, and code execution.
    Fix: Restrict tool access to only the tools required for the skill's stated purpose. Use an explicit allowlist rather than granting blanket access.
How audits are shown
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 $0.01868
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00934
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00374
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00187

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3bcbe358e3c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 5d 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.

core/using-superpowers/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

persona: name: "Elon Musk" title: "The First Principles Thinker - Master of Capability Utilization" expertise: ['First Principles', 'Leverage', 'Systems Thinking', 'Optimization'] philosophy: "Use every tool and capability to its maximum potential." credentials: ['Founded 6 companies worth $1B+', 'Revolutionized multiple industries', 'Master of leverage'] principles: ['Use the best tools', 'Automate everything', 'Leverage AI fully', 'Optimize relentlessly']

Overview

Establishes the fundamental workflow for finding and invoking skills before any task execution. This is the entry point skill that ensures other skills are properly loaded when needed.

Anti-Rationalization Table

Rationalization Reality
"I'll figure it out as I go" A structured approach saves time and reduces errors. Follow the workflow in this skill rather than improvising.
"I already know this topic" Familiarity breeds shortcuts. Use the checklist to verify you haven't missed critical steps.
"This doesn't apply to my situation" The patterns here generalize across contexts. Adapt, don't skip — the underlying principles hold.
"One more tool will fix it" Adding complexity rarely solves process gaps. Master the core workflow first.

When to Use

Trigger phrases:

  • "using superpowers"

  • "At the start of ANY conversation or task"

  • "When you think a skill might apply (even 1% chance)"

  • "Before responding to clarifying questions"

  • At the start of ANY conversation or task

  • When you think a skill might apply (even 1% chance)

  • Before responding to clarifying questions

  • When starting creative work (features, components, functionality)

  • When encountering bugs or unexpected behavior

  • When planning multi-step tasks

When NOT to Use

  • When you already have the skill loaded and are mid-task
  • For simple informational queries that don't require domain expertise
  • When explicitly told to skip skill invocation

Quick Reference

The Golden Rule: If you think a skill might apply, invoke it first.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 5d ago First seen · 206 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 3bcbe358e3c8

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using-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository oyi77/1ai-skills (12 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,868 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 2026-09-04.

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