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feat: add diagnosing-superpowers skill
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7
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name: diagnosing-superpowers
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description: 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.
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# Diagnosing Superpowers
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## Overview
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Pin down with your human partner what went wrong in a session, read the
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transcripts on disk, and report what happened with evidence. You report;
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you do not diagnose superpowers. Whether superpowers needs a change is
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decided by whoever triages the bundle or the GitHub issue.
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**Core principle:** Every finding cites `path:line`. No citation, no
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finding. Every number comes from the transcript or from a command you ran,
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never from memory.
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## Workflow
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Create a todo per step. Steps 5–7 run only on their stated condition.
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1. **Problem intake.** Ask one question at a time until you can write a
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statement naming the session(s), the turn range if known, what your
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partner expected, what happened, and the observable they care about
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(wall-clock, tokens, repeated actions, one specific action). "It took
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too long" is a complaint, not a problem statement. Note whether the
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goal is a superpowers bug report.
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2. **Locate.** Resolve each session to exact paths using
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`references/claude-code-sessions.md`, `references/codex-sessions.md`,
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or `references/other-harnesses.md` for any other harness. Confirm a
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past session by quoting its first prompt and timestamp, and list every
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candidate you rejected with the reason, or "none". Enumerate subagent
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transcripts. Create
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`~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/`, tell your
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partner the path, and fill `templates/case.md` there, including the
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superpowers install root, version, git sha, and a sha1 for every skill
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file the session read or had injected.
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3. **Triage.** Read the region around the reported problem yourself. Then
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dispatch one analyst subagent per dimension in parallel, each given the
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case file path and one file from `prompts/`: `skill-timeline.md`,
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`plan-adherence.md`, `repeated-work.md`, `stumbles.md`,
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`quality-evidence.md`, `request-conflicts.md`, `cost-and-time.md`.
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Split a dimension by turn range when the transcript is long. Discard
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any returned finding without `path:line`.
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4. **Report.** Fill every section of `templates/report.md` in order, write
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it to the workspace, show it, and give the path.
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5. **GitHub issues** — when report §7 says possible or likely, or your
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partner asks. Search open and closed issues on `obra/superpowers` for
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the symptoms (`gh` if installed, else the public search API with curl,
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else hand over a search URL). Show matches and suggest adding the
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report to the closest. If none match, draft `templates/issue.md`, show
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the exact text, and create it only after approval. `gh issue create`
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cannot attach files; give your partner the bundle path to attach.
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6. **Export** — when asked, or the intake goal was a bug report. Ask the
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redaction level: skeleton, evidence, or full. Tell your partner that if
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this is for reporting a bug in superpowers, the more information they
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can provide, the better the chance the maintainers can help. Build the
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bundle per `templates/bundle-README.md`, run `prompts/scrub.md`, then
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`prompts/scrub-audit.md`, repeating both until the audit returns CLEAN.
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Show the scrub log and file list; archive (`zip -r` or `tar -czf`)
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only after approval, and report the archive path.
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7. **Similar sessions** — when asked. Turn confirmed findings into a
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signature, list candidates by mtime and size, find marker line numbers,
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dispatch `prompts/similar-session.md` per candidate in parallel, and
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append report §9.
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## Quick reference
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| Complaint | Start with |
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| "It took too long" | cost-and-time, stumbles |
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| "Why did it do this extra work?" | repeated-work, plan-adherence |
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| "Why is it so expensive?" | cost-and-time |
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| "What the hell is it doing?" (still running) | skill-timeline, timeline of the last turns; note in-progress in coverage |
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| "It ignored the plan" | plan-adherence, look at compaction lines first |
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| "Skill X never fired" | skill-timeline |
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## Hard rules
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- **Context safety.** One transcript line can be a megabyte. Check
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`wc -lc` and long lines first. Never `cat` or `grep` for content: line
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numbers and counts, then trimmed fields from specific lines.
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- **Read-only.** Never modify, move, or delete a session file.
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- **Exact paths to subagents.** A subagent's "current session" is its
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own. Pass absolute paths and ids.
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- **Human prompts only.** Hook output, system reminders, and tool results
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are not your partner's words. In a subagent transcript, "user" is the
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parent agent.
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- **No superpowers diagnosis.** Report §7 states involvement and stops.
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Never name a defect in a skill or propose a change; if asked, point at
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the issue step and offer the bundle. No advice to your partner either.
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- **Approval gates.** No archive before your partner has seen the scrub
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log and file list. No issue or comment before they approve the exact
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text.
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## Red Flags
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| Thought | Reality |
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| "The problem is obvious, skip intake" | The problem statement scopes everything. Ask. |
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| "Small, targeted edit, no restructuring needed" | Not your call, however small. Report the evidence; the triager decides. |
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| "One candidate obviously matches, no need to list the rest" | Every candidate you rejected goes in the report, with the reason. |
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| "The price per token is well known" | Numbers you did not compute from the transcript are invented. Cite or drop. |
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