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using-superpowers

An agent skill by obra, from obra/superpowers. Tags: api, developer-tools, web.

What it does

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

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill using-superpowers

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obra/superpowers
cp -r superpowers/skills/using-superpowers ~/.claude/skills/using-superpowers

Safety box score

Grade C, moderate risk: 26 of 100 risk points, rated 2026-10-19. The grade rates what the skill and its scripts can reach on the machine of whoever installs it, across eight categories from shell execution to secrets access. How the score works.

This skill is mostly a bootstrap and routing layer: it tells the agent how to find, invoke, and sequence other skills across supported harnesses. The main risk is instruction hijacking/overreach — it strongly pressures the agent to invoke skills before any response and to treat skill use as mandatory whenever there is even a 1% chance it applies.

Category levels, from 0 (none) to 3 (high)
CategoryLevelWhy
Code & shell execution0 (none)No shell commands, code execution, or script evaluation are present in `SKILL.md` or the referenced markdown files.
Network access0 (none)The skill does not fetch remote content or send data off-machine; it only references local skill and config paths.
Filesystem reach2 (moderate)It points the agent at home-directory dotfiles and skill stores such as `~/.codex/config.toml`, `~/.gemini/GEMINI.md`, `~/.gemini/skills/`, `~/.agents/skills/`, and `~/.hermes/SOUL.md`.
Secrets & credentials0 (none)It does not ask for passwords, tokens, browser sessions, or other credentials.
Privilege & persistence0 (none)There is no sudo, service registration, shell startup modification, or other privilege-changing action in the skill text.
Instruction hijack surface3 (high)It tries to override normal agent behavior with mandates like `If you think there is even a 1% chance a skill might apply... you ABSOLUTELY MUST invoke the skill` and `Invoke relevant or requested skills BEFORE any response or action`.
Irreversible actions1 (low)It adds process requirements like announcing `Using [skill] to [purpose]` and creating todos, but it does not itself push, delete, post, or otherwise act on external systems.
Transparency0 (none)All shipped files are plain readable markdown; there are no binaries, encoded blobs, or downloaded installers.

Before installing

Rated 2026-10-19 by an automated review of 8 files from the skill's repository.

Source

Repository
obra/superpowers (all skills from this repository)
Path
skills/using-superpowers/SKILL.md
Branch
main
Updated
2026-09-19