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DESIGN.md@docs from bordenet/superpowers-plus is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.

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What the file says

# Technical Design: Skill Triggering, Routing, and Loading

How superpowers-plus discovers skills, matches them to user intent, loads them, and compresses them for token efficiency. This document covers internal mechanisms. For pipeline topology (which skills call which), see [SKILL_TAXONOMY.md](SKILL_TAXONOMY.md). For dependency graphs, see [skill-dependency-graph.md](skill-dependency-graph.md). For deployment paths, see [ARCHITECTURE.md](ARCHITECTURE.md).

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## Contents

1. [Frontmatter Schema](#1-frontmatter-schema)
2. [Trigger Mechanisms](#2-trigger-mechanisms)
3. [Semantic Skill Router](#3-semantic-skill-router)
4. [Skill Loading Pipeline](#4-skill-loading-pipeline)
5. [Compression Pipeline](#5-compression-pipeline)
6. [Coordination Resolution](#6-coordination-resolution)
7. [Composition and Capability Pipeline](#7-composition-and-capability-pipeline)
8. [Bootstrap Flow](#8-bootstrap-flow)
9. [Namespace Resolution](#9-namespace-resolution)

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## 1. Frontmatter Schema

Every `skill.md` begins with a YAML frontmatter block. The canonical parser is [`lib/frontmatter.js`](../lib/frontmatter.js). Validation runs at discovery time via `validateFrontmatter()`.

```yaml
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bordenet/superpowers-plus · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

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