using-superpowers

using-superpowers is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from yinqd3/workbuddy-skills. It costs 64 tokens per session (709 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An engineering workflow that guides an agent from idea clarification through design, planning, test-driven development, review, verification, and branch cleanup. Test-driven development, or TDD, means writing a failing test before the production code that makes it pass.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for structuring new features, refactors, bug fixes, testing, debugging, code review, verification, parallel agent work, and development-branch handoff.
Why use it?
It prevents an agent from jumping straight into implementation and adds checks for the cause of bugs, code quality, and completion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for structuring new features, refactors, bug fixes, testing, debugging, code review, verification, parallel agent work, and development-branch handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/yinqd3/workbuddy-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 yinqd3/workbuddy-skills --skill using-superpowers
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yinqd3/workbuddy-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 709 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 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 $0.00064 $0.00709
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00354
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 8d ago against content hash 73d37816e168, 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 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.

superpowers/using-superpowers/SKILL.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Superpowers — WorkBuddy 版

基于 obra/superpowers 适配的软件工程方法论技能集。

核心理念

想法 → 头脑风暴 → 计划 → TDD 执行 → 代码审查 → 完成

不是建议,是强制管线。 "太简单不需要设计" —— 这是最危险的幻觉。

技能管线总览

阶段 技能 触发条件
0. 入口 using-superpowers 任何编码任务开始时
1. 设计 brainstorming 新功能/改动需求 → 先设计再动手
2. 计划 writing-plans 设计确认后 → 写详细实现计划
3. 执行 executing-planssubagent-driven-development 按计划逐任务执行
4. TDD test-driven-development 每个实现步骤强制 TDD
5. 调试 systematic-debugging Bug / 测试失败 → 四阶段系统调试
6. 审查 requesting-code-review / receiving-code-review 代码变更后审查
7. 验证 verification-before-completion 完成前强制验证
8. 收尾 finishing-a-development-branch 所有任务完成,测试通过
9. 并行 dispatching-parallel-agents 多子代理并行任务
10. 元技能 writing-skills 编写/改进 Skill 本身

四条铁律

  1. 先设计再动手 → 没有例外,再简单的项目也要先过 brainstorming
  2. TDD 不可跳过 → 没有失败的测试,就没有生产代码
  3. 先根因再修复 → 没有根因调查,不许提修复方案
  4. 每一步都要验证 → 完成 ≠ 做完,验证通过才算完成

适配说明

原版为 Claude Code/Codex 设计,WorkBuddy 版做了以下适配:

  • 子代理调度:sessions_spawn → WorkBuddy Agent 工具 + TaskCreate
  • 代码审查:Claude Code Task → WorkBuddy Agent(审查子代理)
  • 文件路径约定:docs/superpowers/docs/plans/
  • 语言支持:中英双语描述,代码示例以 Python/TypeScript 为主
  • 移除了 using-git-worktrees(WorkBuddy 场景不常用)
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 · 51 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 73d37816e168

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-superpowers is a skill published in the GitHub repository yinqd3/workbuddy-skills (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 709 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.