diagnosing-superpowers SKILL.md skillA
This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 5 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.
diagnosing-superpowers from osrim/niksi is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add osrim/niksi/diagnosing-superpowers@git:20260927.e6d3d84Pins git:20260927.e6d3d84 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- osrim/niksi
- Path
cli/testdata/benign-skills/superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260927.e6d3d84, committed Sep 27, 2026
- Size
- 6,904 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Use when a superpowers session went wrong and your human partner wants to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a skill that didn't fire, "it took too long", "why is it so expensive", "what is it doing" — or wants to build a bug report for the superpowers maintainers, for the current session or a past one identified by id or path, on any harness.
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
# Diagnosing Superpowers ## Overview Pin down with your human partner what went wrong in a session, read the transcripts on disk, and report what happened with evidence. You report; you do not diagnose superpowers. Whoever triages the bundle or the issue decides whether superpowers changes. **Core principle:** Every finding cites `path:line`. No citation, no finding. Every number comes from the transcript or from a command you ran, never from memory. ## Workflow Create a todo per step. Steps 5–7 run only on their stated condition. 1. **Problem intake.** Ask one question at a time until you can write a statement naming the session(s), the turn range if known, what your partner expected, what happened, and the observable they care about (wall-clock, tokens, repeated actions, one specific action). "It took too long" is a complaint, not a problem statement. Note whether the goal is a superpowers bug report. 2. **Locate.** Resolve each session to verified absolute filesystem paths using `references/session-discovery.md`. Confirm a past session by quoting its first prompt and timestamp, and list every candidate you rejected with the …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add osrim/niksi/diagnosing-superpowers@sha256:5a652f8132cc901eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260927.e6d3d84, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 27, 2026.
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 (6904 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
osrim/niksi · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hkaudgyjh22rey73 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=osrim/niksi/diagnosing-superpowers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5a652f8132cc901eb5ca61f89157839f87a2f20aed037fc7a2b51051bc37cd19
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.