meta-superpowers

meta-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code from tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence. It costs 36 tokens per session (465 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A startup checklist that tells the coding agent to look for relevant skills and follow their required procedures before working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check which skills apply, announce them, and follow required practices such as planning, checklists, or test-first development.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of skipping important instructions or applying a workflow incorrectly. It is intended to make task handling consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the engineering-excellence plugin — 13 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to check which skills apply, announce them, and follow required practices such as planning, checklists, or test-first development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence/meta-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 tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence --skill meta-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install engineering-excellence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 4 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for meta-superpowers

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for meta-superpowers

Your own site · 80×15
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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 465 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00036 $0.00465
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00233
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash fbf2eb888216, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

meta-superpowers scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Enumerates other installed skillsmediumAgent snooping

Other skills' SKILL.md files reveal prompts, capabilities and secrets that should be invisible to peers.

1. ☐ Mentally enumerate available skills.
skills/meta-superpowers/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Using Skills Effectively

Mandatory First-Response Protocol

Before responding to any user request:

  1. ☐ Mentally enumerate available skills.
  2. ☐ Ask: “Does ANY skill match this task?”
  3. ☐ If yes → Use the Skill tool to read/run it (do not rely on memory).
  4. ☐ Announce: “I’m using [Skill Name] to …”.
  5. ☐ Follow the skill exactly (brainstorming before coding, etc.).

Skipping this checklist is automatic failure.

Critical Rules

  1. Mandatory workflows – Brainstorming before coding, TDD, verification, etc. Instructions about WHAT to do never override HOW defined by skills.
  2. Execute via Skill tool – Always load the latest file; skills evolve.

Rationalization Triggers (STOP immediately)

  • “This is simple”
  • “I’ll just gather info first”
  • “I remember the skill”
  • “Skill is overkill”
  • “Let me do one thing before checking”

These are warning signs that you’re about to skip process. Don’t.

Skills with Checklists

If a skill has a checklist, create TodoWrite items for each step. No mental tracking, no batching, no skipping. Mark complete only when done.

Announcing Skill Usage

Always tell your partner: “I’m using [Skill] to [task].”

  • Promotes transparency and ensures accountability.
  • Confirms you actually read the skill.

Instructions vs. Workflows

User instructions describe outcomes, not process. You still must execute brainstorming, TDD, verification, etc., unless explicitly told otherwise.

Summary

  1. Check for relevant skills before doing anything.
  2. Use the Skill tool, announce usage, follow instructions exactly.
  3. Convert skill checklists into TodoWrite tasks.

Failing to use applicable skills = failing the task.

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. 9d ago First seen · 52 lines · 36 tokens per session scan B fbf2eb888216

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meta-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository tjboudreaux/cc-plugin-engineering-excellence (4 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 465 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (enumerates other installed skills). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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