using-superpowers SKILL.md skillA
using-superpowers from obra/superpowers is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add obra/superpowers/using-superpowers@git:20260919.5bf4e78Pins git:20260919.5bf4e78 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- obra/superpowers
- Path
skills/using-superpowers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260919.5bf4e78, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 16, 2026
- Size
- 3,192 bytes
- Repository stars
- 302,424
- License
- MIT
Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<SUBAGENT-STOP> If you were dispatched as a subagent to execute a specific task, ignore this skill. </SUBAGENT-STOP> <EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT> If you think there is even a 1% chance a skill might apply to what you are doing, you ABSOLUTELY MUST invoke the skill. IF A SKILL APPLIES TO YOUR TASK, YOU DO NOT HAVE A CHOICE. YOU MUST USE IT. This is not negotiable. You cannot rationalize your way out of this. </EXTREMELY-IMPORTANT> ## The Rule **Invoke relevant or requested skills BEFORE any response or action** — including clarifying questions, exploring the codebase, or checking files. If it turns out wrong for the situation, you don't have to use it. **Before entering plan mode:** if you haven't already brainstormed, invoke the brainstorming skill first. Then announce "Using [skill] to [purpose]" and follow the skill exactly. If it has a checklist, create a todo per item. ## Skill Priority When multiple skills apply, process skills come first — they set the approach, then implementation skills (frontend-design, etc.) carry it out. Brainstorming and systematic-debugging are Superpowers' most common process skills, but the rule holds for any of them. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add obra/superpowers/using-superpowers@sha256:82c5c8866ad7f5ddThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.5bf4e78, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_fvor2nwdi3a6bktd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 16, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 19 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260919.5bf4e78 latest | 2026-09-19 | 5bf4e78 | 3,192 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260812.b36e082 | 2026-08-12 | b36e082 | 3,108 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260630.777cc2f | 2026-06-30 | 777cc2f | 3,063 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260616.295219a | 2026-06-16 | 295219a | 5,809 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260616.36ce0a2 | 2026-06-16 | 36ce0a2 | 5,899 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260616.b0a0872 | 2026-06-16 | b0a0872 | 5,842 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3192 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
obra/superpowers · 302,424 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fvor2nwdi3a6bktd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=obra/superpowers/using-superpowers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/82c5c8866ad7f5dd4440ce66bd7806ba48a2f13771beae5cf112e53f08fe36ba
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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