BrainstormingTop pick
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it…
Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions
Run this in your project folder. It works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and dozens of other agents.
$ npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill using-superpowersNeeds Node.js. Add -g to install for every project, or -a claude-code to skip the agent picker.
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 /using-superpowers.
It contains no scripts, only instructions and reference files, so it can't run code on its own.
Section headings from the skill's SKILL.md file.
You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, modifying behavior, or planning anything new, in software or out of it…
Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes
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…
Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies
Terse caveman voice: answer first, fluff gone, every technical fact kept. Use for /caveman, "caveman mode", "talk like caveman", "be brief", "less tokens". Stays on until "stop…
Lazy senior dev mode: the smallest change that fully solves the task, and a reply a busy human understands in one read. Use on any coding task (writing, fixing, refactoring…
Quality audit of a whole repo: bugs, security holes, what breaks under real load, risky code without tests, slow paths, and what to delete, merge or split. Ranked, each finding…