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using-superpowers

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

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Quality

Does it follow best practices?

Impact

No eval scenarios have been run

SecuritybySnyk

Passed

No known issues

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Quality

Content

85%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-structured, actionable instruction skill with clear sequencing and properly externalized one-level-deep platform references. Its main weakness is conciseness: the Red Flags table and emphatic blocks repeat the same rule many times, over-reinforcing rather than trusting competence.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Sections like Skill Priority and Platform Adaptation are efficient, but the 12-row Red Flags table and the emphatic <EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT> block restate 'check for skills first' many times, padding the token budget with repetitive reinforcement rather than trusting Claude's competence.

2 / 3

Actionability

Gives concrete, executable instructions ('Invoke relevant or requested skills BEFORE any response', "announce 'Using [skill] to [purpose]'", 'create a todo per item') plus specific priority examples, which is specific actionable guidance for an instruction-only skill.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

The core sequence is unambiguous—invoke skill first, announce, follow any checklist with todos—and priority ordering is explicit; no destructive/batch operation is involved so the validation-checkpoint cap does not apply.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-organized into sections and externalizes platform specifics to one-level-deep references (references/codex-tools.md, pi-tools.md, antigravity-tools.md), all of which exist as real leaf files with no nested 2+ level references.

3 / 3

Total

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Description

60%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description clearly answers what and when with an explicit trigger, but its trigger is so generic that it would match nearly every conversation, creating high conflict risk and weak distinctiveness. Specificity is adequate but not a multi-action list.

Suggestions

Tighten the trigger to the specific situations where this meta-skill is genuinely needed (e.g., 'Use before your first action in any task') rather than 'starting any conversation', which is too broad.

Add a concrete, distinctive phrasing a user would naturally say, or name the specific behavior it enforces (mandatory skill discovery/invocation) to reduce overlap with other skills.

Lead with the distinctive behavior ('Requires invoking relevant skills before any response or action') so it reads as a niche rule rather than a catch-all.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

Names the domain ('how to find and use skills') and one concrete action ('requiring skill invocation before ANY response'), but does not list multiple specific concrete actions as the level-3 anchor requires.

2 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('establishes how to find and use skills') and when ('Use when starting any conversation') with an explicit trigger clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

The 'Use when starting any conversation' trigger is recognizable but generic; it lacks the natural task vocabulary a user would actually say when they need this meta-skill, and misses common variations.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

'starting any conversation' is maximally generic and fires on essentially every interaction by design, conflicting with many other skills rather than occupying a clear niche.

1 / 3

Total

8

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Passed

Validation

100%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation16 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

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