diagnosing-superpowers SKILL.md skillA
diagnosing-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/diagnosing-superpowers@git:20261020.b739a8aPins git:20261020.b739a8a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- obra/superpowers
- Path
skills/diagnosing-superpowers/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261020.b739a8a, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 6,941 bytes
- Repository stars
- 314,583
- 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 obra/superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers@sha256:3143de8695c5a2d6The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.b739a8a, 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_jayu4rhdmhpzcm5b)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 32 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261020.b739a8a latest | 2026-10-20 | b739a8a | 6,941 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.5bf4e78 | 2026-09-19 | 5bf4e78 | 6,904 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 (6941 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 · 314,583 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jayu4rhdmhpzcm5b GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=obra/superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3143de8695c5a2d63e8b1675f33837578076f464deb127c2ebdd0b46fceef886
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