Superpowers

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 (a talk, a business, a renovation).

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes

Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code

Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions

Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements

Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code

Use when about to claim work is complete, fixed, or passing, before committing or creating PRs - requires running verification commands and confirming output before making any success claims; evidence before assertions always

Use when executing an implementation plan in the current session as the implementer yourself — your human partner chose inline execution, or no subagent tool is available

Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session

Use when receiving code review feedback, before implementing suggestions, especially if feedback seems unclear or technically questionable - requires technical rigor and verification, not performative agreement or blind implementation

Use when facing 2+ independent tasks that can be worked on without shared state or sequential dependencies

Use when creating new skills, editing existing skills, or verifying skills work before deployment

Use when starting feature work that needs isolation from current workspace or before executing implementation plans - ensures an isolated workspace exists via native tools or git worktree fallback

Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work

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.