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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.
Install
Run this in your project folder. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and dozens of other agents.
$ npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill diagnosing-superpowersNeeds Node.js. Add -g to install for every project, or -a claude-code to skip the agent picker.
How to use Diagnosing Superpowers
Once it's installed, Claude reads this skill on its own whenever a request matches what it's for, so you don't have to mention it by name. In Claude Code you can also run it directly by typing /diagnosing-superpowers.
It contains no scripts, only instructions and reference files, so it can't run code on its own.
What the instructions cover
- 1Overview
- 2Workflow
- 3Quick reference
- 4Hard rules
- 5Red Flags
Section headings from the skill's SKILL.md file.
What's inside · 20 files
- SKILL.md
- prompts/analyst-common.md
- prompts/cost-and-time.md
- prompts/plan-adherence.md
- prompts/quality-evidence.md
- prompts/repeated-work.md
- prompts/request-conflicts.md
- prompts/scrub-audit.md
- prompts/scrub.md
- prompts/similar-session.md
- prompts/skill-timeline.md
- prompts/stumbles.md
- references/context-safety.md
- references/github-issues.md
- references/redaction-policy.md
- references/session-discovery.md
- templates/bundle-README.md
- templates/case.md
- templates/issue.md
- templates/report.md
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