using-superpowers

using-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from RbBtSn0w/adg. It costs 28 tokens per session (1,397 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of using-superpowers, MIT.

A set of instructions for using coding-agent skills, which are reusable guidance files that shape how an agent handles tasks. It says applicable skills should be loaded before responding or taking action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting conversations or deciding whether an installed skill must guide the agent's work.
Why use it?
It helps ensure the agent follows task-specific instructions instead of relying only on its default behavior. It also explains where skills come from in several coding-agent tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the superpowers plugin — 3 skills, 1 hook 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/rbbtsn0w/adg/using-superpowers
Any agent
npx skills add RbBtSn0w/adg --skill using-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RbBtSn0w/adg

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rbbtsn0w/adg/using-superpowers"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rbbtsn0w/adg/using-superpowers.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,397 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 84% 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 $0.00028 $0.01397
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00698
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00279
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00140

Measured 4d ago against content hash 918562bbba1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 4d 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

84% identical to using-superpowers — 34 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.

test/fixtures/superpowers/skills/using-superpowers/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 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.

Instruction Priority

Superpowers 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. Superpowers 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

Never read skill files manually with file tools — always use your platform's skill-loading mechanism so the skill is properly activated.

In Claude Code: Use the Skill tool. When you invoke a skill, its content is loaded and presented to you — follow it directly.

In Codex: Skills load natively. Follow the instructions presented when a skill activates.

In Copilot CLI: Use the skill tool. Skills are auto-discovered from installed plugins.

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 speak in actions ("dispatch a subagent", "create a todo", "read a file") rather than naming any one runtime's tools. For per-platform tool equivalents and instructions-file conventions, see claude-code-tools.md, codex-tools.md, copilot-tools.md, gemini-tools.md, pi-tools.md, and antigravity-tools.md. Gemini CLI users get the tool mapping loaded automatically via GEMINI.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 4d ago First seen · 122 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 918562bbba1c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository RbBtSn0w/adg (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 1,397 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to using-superpowers, differing in 34 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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