using-superpowers

github:obra/superpowers · first committed 2025-10-16 · installs 275.7K · source · badge

Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions

Skill Health 90 (freshness and quality) estimated by backskills

Listed, not yet scored. This skill has no public model test yet. It is in the scoring queue; submitted skills go first, then the most-installed.

Freshness 100 · Quality 80 · Efficacy not yet tested

Version history

26 commits to this file on GitHub (newest first).

2026-09-19 · commit 5bf4e78 · Release v6.4.1: diagnosing-superpowers, Native plan execution, OpenCode 2.0 and Muse support (#2338)
2026-08-12 · commit b36e082 · Release v6.3.0: Devin CLI and Hermes Agent support, brainstorming three-path router, SDD/Codex efficiency fixes (#2125)
2026-06-30 · commit 777cc2f · Compress the using-superpowers bootstrap
2026-06-16 · commit 295219a · Align Pi mapping with action vocabulary
2026-06-16 · commit b0a0872 · @mhat reported that his claude got confused about 'debugging' being named as a skill in the bootstrap
2026-06-16 · commit 36ce0a2 · feat: add Antigravity CLI (agy) support
2026-06-16 · commit 6b9f1b2 · Phase B: config-file refs + per-platform tool refs + spec
2026-06-16 · commit f030d6e · Tighten cross-platform tool references
2026-03-31 · commit 8b16692 · feat: add Copilot CLI tool mapping, docs, and install instructions
2026-03-10 · commit 715e18e · Load Gemini tool mapping via GEMINI.md @import instead of skill reference
2026-03-10 · commit 21a774e · Add Gemini CLI tool mapping and update using-superpowers references
2026-03-08 · commit 245d50e · Add v5.0.0 release notes and include AGENTS.md in instruction priority
2026-03-06 · commit a26cbaa · Move Codex tool mapping to progressive disclosure reference file
2026-03-06 · commit 1c53f5d · Add SUBAGENT-STOP gate to prevent subagent skill leakage
2026-03-06 · commit b23c084 · Add instruction priority hierarchy to using-superpowers skill
2026-02-12 · commit 7f2ee61 · Enforce brainstorming workflow with hard gates and process flow
2025-12-27 · commit 3dac35e · Strengthen using-superpowers for explicit skill requests
2025-12-22 · commit a7a8c08 · Clarify that Skill tool loads skill content directly
2025-12-18 · commit 2d7408d · Improve using-superpowers skill to prevent rationalization failures
2025-12-18 · commit 3f725ff · Strengthen brainstorming skill trigger and add skill priority guidance
2025-10-23 · commit c88b0d6 · Update using-superpowers skill to use Skill tool instead of Read tool
2025-10-22 · commit f6ee98a · Strengthen using-superpowers skill against agent rationalization
2025-10-17 · commit 48410c7 · Standardize skill frontmatter names to lowercase and kebab-case
2025-10-16 · commit 10afd4e · Now that the "Skill" tool is public, use that
2025-10-16 · commit 451db49 · Update our bootstrap for first-party claude skills
2025-10-16 · commit deb45f5 · Adding back our old getting-started skill since the claude code bootstrap does not seem to trigger our skills quite as effectively yet

Archived snapshots

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