docs(diagnosing-superpowers): keep fixture paths out of the tracked plan

The Local fixtures table carried absolute session-store paths whose project-directory slugs embed the account name and two private repository names. Line 19 of the same file states the rule those rows broke, and the scrubbed CREATION-LOG.md landed in the previous commit for the same reason. The Path column becomes Session id plus Characteristics, which is what an executor on another machine actually needs to pick an equivalent fixture. Subagent count for CC-compact corrected from seven to the 278 the end-to-end run enumerated, and the compaction entries named as the two manual boundaries verified against the file. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7
fix(diagnosing-superpowers): human-prompt filters for injected lines and newer Codex rollouts
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@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ Superpowers is built by [Jesse Vincent](https://blog.fsck.com) and the rest of t
 **Debugging**
 - **systematic-debugging** - 4-phase root cause process (includes root-cause-tracing, defense-in-depth, condition-based-waiting techniques)
 - **verification-before-completion** - Ensure it's actually fixed
+- **diagnosing-superpowers** - Work out what went wrong in a session, with evidence; export a scrubbed bundle or file an issue

 **Collaboration** 
 - **brainstorming** - Socratic design refinement
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+# Diagnosing Superpowers Sessions — Design
+
+Date: 2026-08-27
+Status: approved by Jesse (in-session); spec pending review
+Branch: `diagnosing-superpowers` off `dev`
+
+## Goal
+
+A core skill, `diagnosing-superpowers`, that a user invokes when a
+superpowers session went wrong. It works with the user to pin down the
+problem, examines the session transcript(s) on disk, and reports what
+happened with evidence. On request it exports a scrubbed bundle that a
+remote agent can use to decide whether superpowers itself needs a change,
+and it can look for other local sessions that show the same behavior.
+
+The skill reports; it never diagnoses superpowers. Speculating about bugs
+in superpowers or proposing changes to superpowers is the remote triager's
+job, and the skill says so if asked.
+
+## Scope decisions (settled with Jesse)
+
+- **Pure prose skill for v1.** No shipped scripts. The model does the work,
+  using subagents aggressively. Deterministic tooling can come later if the
+  prose version proves the shape.
+- **Harness coverage.** Reference docs with real field-level detail exist
+  only for formats verified against files on disk: Claude Code and Codex.
+  Every other harness gets a discovery procedure. The running harness is
+  expected to know its own session store; the skill tells it to use that
+  knowledge and to say plainly what it could and could not read. No
+  invented formats.
+- **Problem intake first.** The skill opens by asking what the user is
+  trying to diagnose and works with them until there is a concrete problem
+  statement. Sweeps run in service of that statement.
+- **Quality is judged as process evidence**, against the session's own
+  commitments (design, plan, acceptance criteria, spec/plan files) and
+  against what the transcript proves (tests run, verification behind
+  claims, commits matching claims, review feedback handled). It is not a
+  code review of the resulting diff.
+- **Redaction level is the user's call.** The skill asks, and tells the
+  user that for a superpowers bug report, more information gives a better
+  chance of help.
+- **Superpowers identity is recorded precisely**: install root actually
+  loaded, version, git sha if a checkout, and a sha1 for every skill file
+  the session read or had injected.
+- **Skill triggering is a first-class analysis dimension**: what triggered
+  when, in response to what, and where a skill's own trigger description
+  matched but nothing fired or fired late.
+
+## Skill layout
+
+```
+skills/diagnosing-superpowers/
+  SKILL.md
+  references/
+    claude-code-sessions.md
+    codex-sessions.md
+    other-harnesses.md
+  prompts/
+    skill-timeline.md
+    plan-adherence.md
+    repeated-work.md
+    stumbles.md
+    quality-evidence.md
+    request-conflicts.md
+    cost-and-time.md
+    scrub.md
+    scrub-audit.md
+    similar-session.md
+  templates/
+    case.md
+    report.md
+    bundle-README.md
+    issue.md
+tests/diagnosing-superpowers/
+  test-skill-structure.sh
+```
+
+Same shape as `subagent-driven-development`: a lean SKILL.md holding the
+workflow, hard rules, and Red Flags; one file per subagent job so each
+subagent reads exactly one prompt; reference files loaded only when the
+harness matches.
+
+### SKILL.md frontmatter
+
+```
+name: diagnosing-superpowers
+description: Use when a superpowers session went wrong and the user wants
+  to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a
+  skill that didn't fire — 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.
+```
+
+Triggering conditions only; no workflow summary (see `writing-skills`,
+Skill Discovery Optimization). SKILL.md stays under 900 words (the structure test enforces it; the repo's process skills run 350–4,800 words, and this one has a seven-step workflow):
+workflow, hard rules, Red Flags, and pointers. Everything else lives in
+the prompt, reference, and template files.
+
+## Workflow
+
+Each step is a todo item when the skill runs.
+
+### 1. Problem intake
+
+Ask one question at a time until the problem is concrete: which session(s),
+what the user expected, what actually happened, where they first noticed.
+Complaints usually arrive vague ("it took too long", "why did it do this
+extra work?", "why is it so expensive?", "what the hell is it doing?");
+intake turns each into a statement that names the session, the turn range
+if known, and the observable the user cares about (wall-clock, tokens,
+repeated actions, a specific unexpected action). Write the agreed
+statement to the case file (below). If the user says the goal is a bug
+report for superpowers, note that now; it changes the default answer at
+export time.
+
+### 2. Locate
+
+Resolve every session the user named to exact paths on disk.
+
+- **Current session.** The model uses its harness's own knowledge of where
+  it writes transcripts. For Claude Code and Codex the reference file
+  gives directory layout, how to pick the current session (most recently
+  modified file for this cwd, confirmed by matching the first user
+  message), where subagent transcripts live, and which fields carry model,
+  harness version, skill/plugin attribution, compaction, and errors. For
+  any other harness, `other-harnesses.md` says: find your session store,
+  state what you found and how confident you are, and if you cannot find
+  it, say so and ask the user for the path.
+- **Past session.** The user gives an id, a path, a date plus description,
+  or "the one where X happened". Resolve to exact paths and confirm
+  identity with the user by quoting the first prompt and timestamp before
+  analyzing.
+- **Subagents.** Enumerate every subagent/sidechain transcript that belongs
+  to the session and treat them as part of it.
+- **Live sessions.** "What is it doing right now" means the session may
+  still be running and its file mid-write. Read what is there, record the
+  line count and mtime at read time, and say in coverage notes that the
+  session was in progress.
+- **Host and superpowers identity.** Record OS and version; harness and
+  version; every model id seen; the superpowers install root the session
+  actually loaded (marketplace cache and dev checkout can differ), its
+  version from the manifest, git sha if it is a checkout; a sha1 of every
+  skill file the session read or had injected, computed from the file as it
+  exists now, flagged when the file's mtime is newer than the session
+  because the hash may not match what the session saw; other plugins,
+  extensions, and MCP servers configured; instruction files present
+  (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, and the like) listed by path only.
+- **Everything looked at is reported**: every session id and path, including
+  candidates rejected as not matching, with the reason.
+
+The workspace is `~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/`
+(home directory, so it never lands in a project tree or a commit). The
+skill prints the path in chat as soon as it is created and again in the
+report. `case.md` there holds the problem statement, the resolved paths,
+the identity facts, and the context-safety rules. Every subagent gets its
+path.
+
+### 3. Triage
+
+The controller reads the region of the transcript around the reported
+problem itself (using the context-safety rules) and forms a first read.
+Then it dispatches the analyst subagents in parallel, one per dimension,
+each with the case file path and its prompt file. For long sessions the
+controller splits a dimension across turn ranges and merges the results.
+
+Subagents return findings in one shape:
+
+```
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <path:line> — "<short quote>"
+  turns: <first>–<last>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+```
+
+Dimensions and what each looks for:
+
+- **Skill timeline.** Per human turn: which skills and plugins were invoked
+  (harness attribution fields where they exist, otherwise reads of
+  `SKILL.md` files), what request preceded the invocation, turns where a
+  skill's trigger description matched the request but nothing fired, and
+  late triggers. Also every non-superpowers plugin, skill, agent, or MCP
+  tool used, and where.
+- **Plan adherence.** Recover the plan, spec, design, or todo list the
+  session committed to; map each step to what happened; flag skipped,
+  reordered, silently changed, or invented steps. Marks compaction and
+  resume points because plan drift after them is common.
+- **Repeated work.** Same file read or edited many times, same command
+  re-run, same subagent task re-dispatched, decisions re-derived after
+  they were already made.
+- **Stumbles.** Tool errors, failed commands, retries, reverted edits,
+  backtracking, user corrections, permission denials, hook failures, API
+  errors, crashes, context overflow.
+- **Quality evidence.** Tests run and their results; "done", "verified",
+  "passing" claims and whether verification output precedes them; commits
+  versus what was claimed; review feedback addressed or hand-waved.
+- **Request conflicts.** Contradictory user instructions across turns,
+  instructions conflicting with CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, requests the model
+  was told to ignore. Only human-typed prompts count as user instructions.
+- **Cost and time.** Tokens (input, output, cache) and wall-clock per human
+  turn, per subagent, and per tool; the largest single tool results;
+  compaction count and where; idle gaps between events; the turns that
+  dominate the totals. Claude Code carries per-message `usage`; Codex
+  emits `token_count` events.
+
+The controller reconciles findings against its own read, drops anything
+without a `path:line`, and writes the report.
+
+### 4. Report
+
+`~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/report.md`, also shown
+in chat. Fixed section order so a remote triager can rely on it:
+
+1. **Problem statement** as agreed at intake.
+2. **Triage verdict.** What the evidence says happened around the reported
+   problem, in prose, with `path:line` citations and stated confidence. No
+   root-cause claims about superpowers and no recommendations for it.
+3. **Environment.** Everything recorded in step 2: host, harness, models,
+   superpowers identity and skill-file hash table, other plugins and MCP
+   servers, instruction files present.
+4. **Sessions examined.** Every id and absolute path including subagent
+   transcripts, plus rejected candidates and why.
+5. **Timeline.** Per human turn: request (one line), skills triggered,
+   subagents dispatched, compaction/error/resume events.
+6. **Findings.** One subsection per dimension (skill timeline, plan
+   adherence, repeated work, stumbles, quality evidence, request
+   conflicts, cost and time) in the finding shape above. Empty dimensions
+   say "none found" and what was checked.
+7. **Superpowers involvement.** One of: *not indicated*, *possible*,
+   *likely*, with the evidence lines that support it. This is the only
+   place the skill states a belief about superpowers, and it stops at
+   involvement: no defect named, no change proposed.
+8. **Coverage notes.** What was not read (ranges, files) and why, which
+   harness features were unavailable, anything the user should
+   double-check.
+
+Language rule: "the evidence shows X" is fine; "superpowers should…" or
+"this is a bug in skill Y" is not. Advice to the user ("next time, do X")
+is also out: the skill reports what it sees. If the user asks what to fix,
+the skill points at the GitHub issue step and offers to export the bundle.
+
+### 4a. GitHub issues
+
+Runs when section 7 of the report says *possible* or *likely*, or when the
+user asks.
+
+1. **Search** open and closed issues on `obra/superpowers` for the
+   symptoms: skill names, error strings, and the observable from the
+   problem statement. Use `gh` if it is installed; otherwise the public
+   search API (`https://api.github.com/search/issues`) via curl;
+   otherwise give the user a search URL and stop.
+2. **Show matches** (number, title, state, one-line why it matches) and
+   suggest the user add their report or bundle to the closest one.
+3. **If nothing matches**, draft an issue from `templates/issue.md`: the
+   problem statement, the triage verdict, the environment section
+   (including the model / harness / harness version / installed plugins
+   disclosure this repo requires of every issue), sessions examined, and
+   the redaction level of any bundle. Show the exact text; create the
+   issue only after the user approves it. `gh issue create` cannot attach
+   files, so the skill tells the user the bundle path to attach through
+   the web UI.
+4. Nothing is posted anywhere without the user approving the exact text.
+
+### 5. Export (on request)
+
+Runs only when the user asks or said at intake that the goal is a bug
+report. The bundle is written to
+`~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/bundle/` and the
+archive next to it.
+
+1. **Ask the redaction level.** Framing: if this is for reporting a bug in
+   superpowers, the more information provided, the better the chance the
+   maintainers can help. Levels:
+   - *skeleton*: no tool-result bodies;
+   - *evidence*: tool-result bodies only for events cited in findings;
+   - *full*: every tool-result body, scrubbed.
+   The skill suggests *evidence* as the default.
+2. **Build the bundle** with these files:
+   - `README.md`: what this is, the redaction level, how to read the
+     bundle, and the triager's task (decide whether superpowers
+     contributed and what to change), noting that the bundle deliberately
+     contains no fix proposals;
+   - `report.md`, `case.md`, `environment.json`, `timeline.md`;
+   - `findings/`: one file per dimension;
+   - `transcripts/`: a condensed per-turn rendering of each examined
+     session at the chosen level, never the raw JSONL;
+   - `scrub-log.md`.
+3. **Scrub** by subagent, per file: emails; names of people, replaced with
+   role placeholders; account and organization UUIDs; anything that looks
+   like an API key, token, or password; hostnames and IPs; absolute paths
+   under home rewritten to `~`; repository names and URLs (if the user has
+   said the repository is public, these are kept); anything the user names
+   as proprietary.
+   Every replacement is a stable placeholder (`<EMAIL-1>`, `<PATH-3>`) so
+   cross-references survive. The scrub log lists placeholder → category,
+   never the original value.
+4. **Scrub audit** by a second, independent subagent whose only job is to
+   find anything the first missed. Repeat scrub and audit until the audit
+   finds nothing.
+5. **User review gate.** Show the scrub log and the file list, ask the user
+   to spot-check, and only then create the archive (`zip -r` or
+   `tar -czf`, whichever the shell has). Report the archive path. The skill
+   never uploads anything anywhere.
+
+### 6. Similar sessions (on request)
+
+1. Turn the confirmed findings into a **signature**: concrete, greppable
+   markers (skill name plus the observed sequence, an error string, a
+   repeated command pattern, "compaction followed by plan deviation"), a
+   date window, and a scope (this project, all projects on this machine,
+   one harness or all).
+2. Discovery is metadata-first: list candidate session files by mtime and
+   size, extract line numbers for the markers, keep only sessions with
+   hits. Context-safety rules apply.
+3. Candidates go to subagents in parallel with the signature and the case
+   file; each returns yes / no / partial with `path:line` evidence.
+4. Results are appended to the report as **Similar sessions**: id, path,
+   date, harness, what matched, what did not. Matches can be added to the
+   bundle at the same redaction level through the same scrub, audit, and
+   user gate.
+
+Local machine only. The skill never reaches into other people's sessions
+or remote stores.
+
+## Hard rules (SKILL.md and every subagent prompt)
+
+- **Context safety.** Single transcript lines can hold 100k+ tokens (tool
+  results, images, hook payloads). Never `cat` or `grep` a transcript for
+  content. Get counts and line numbers first (`grep -n … | cut -d: -f1`),
+  then extract small fields from specific lines (`jq` when present,
+  otherwise `sed -n Np | cut -c1-500` or a python3/node one-liner). Check
+  the file size and line count before anything else.
+- **Read-only.** Session files are never modified, moved, or deleted.
+- **Exact paths to subagents.** "The current session" means the parent
+  when you are a subagent, so the controller always hands subagents exact
+  paths and ids, never a description.
+- **Human prompts only.** Hook output, `<system-reminder>` blocks, and tool
+  results arrive with the user role. Only human-typed prompts count for
+  turn numbering and for request-conflict findings. In a subagent
+  transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+- **Evidence or nothing.** Every finding cites `path:line`. Findings without
+  a citation are dropped at reconciliation.
+- **No superpowers diagnosis.** The skill describes what happened. It does
+  not say what is wrong with superpowers or what to change.
+- **User gate before export.** No archive is created until the user has
+  seen the scrub log and file list.
+- **User gate before posting.** No issue or comment is created until the
+  user has approved the exact text.
+
+## Red Flags (SKILL.md table)
+
+These rows are hypotheses from design. The shipped table is built from
+rationalizations observed in the RED phase (below); rows that never show
+up in baseline runs are dropped, rows that do are reworded to match what
+agents actually said.
+
+| Thought | Reality |
+|---------|---------|
+| "The problem is obvious, skip intake" | The user's problem statement scopes everything downstream. Ask. |
+| "I'll just grep the transcript" | One line can be your whole context. Line numbers first, fields second. |
+| "This is clearly a bug in skill X" | Not your call. Report the evidence; the triager decides. |
+| "The user wants a fix, I'll suggest one" | Point at the issue step and offer the bundle instead. |
+| "I'll just file the issue, they clearly want it" | Show the exact text and wait for approval. |
+| "I don't need a citation for this one" | No `path:line`, no finding. |
+| "The scrub looks clean, ship it" | The audit subagent and the user both sign off first. |
+| "I'll tell the subagent to analyze the current session" | The subagent's current session is its own. Pass the path. |
+| "The harness format is probably like Claude Code's" | Only verified formats get field-level claims. Discover, then report what you found. |
+
+## Harness reference files
+
+### `references/claude-code-sessions.md`
+
+Verified against files on this machine, Claude Code 2.1.247:
+
+- Store: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>.jsonl` where the slug
+  is the cwd with `/` replaced by `-`.
+- Subagents: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>/subagents/agent-<id>.jsonl`
+  with a sibling `agent-<id>.meta.json`.
+- Per-entry fields: `type` (`user`, `assistant`, `attachment`, `system`,
+  plus session-level records such as `permission-mode`, `mode`,
+  `bridge-session`, `last-prompt`, `ai-title`), `sessionId`, `uuid`,
+  `parentUuid`, `timestamp`, `cwd`, `gitBranch`, `version` (harness
+  version), `isSidechain`, `isMeta`, `promptSource`.
+- Assistant entries: `message.model`, `attributionSkill`,
+  `attributionPlugin`, `requestId`, `effort`.
+- Compaction: `system` entries with `subtype: compact_boundary`.
+- Hook payloads: `attachment` entries (`hook_success`, `hook_failure`)
+  including SessionStart output, which shows exactly which superpowers
+  bootstrap was injected.
+- Plugin registry: `~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json`
+  (`installPath`, `version`, `gitCommitSha` per plugin). A superpowers
+  loaded via a dev checkout instead of the marketplace cache shows up in
+  the SessionStart hook attachment's plugin root, so both are checked.
+
+### `references/codex-sessions.md`
+
+Verified against files on this machine, Codex CLI 0.147.0:
+
+- Store: `~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-<timestamp>-<id>.jsonl`.
+- `session_meta` line: `payload.id`, `payload.session_id`,
+  `payload.parent_thread_id`, `payload.cwd`, `payload.originator`,
+  `payload.cli_version`, `payload.model_provider`, `payload.source`
+  (subagent spawn details: `parent_thread_id`, `depth`, `agent_nickname`).
+  Subagent rollouts are separate files linked by `parent_thread_id`.
+- Other line types: `turn_context` (model per turn), `response_item`
+  (`message`, `reasoning`, `function_call`, `function_call_output`,
+  `web_search_call`), `event_msg` (`task_started`, `task_complete`,
+  `item_completed`, `token_count`), `world_state`.
+- No skill attribution field. Skill use is inferred from
+  `function_call` reads of `SKILL.md` paths and from the multi-agent
+  spawn records.
+
+### `references/other-harnesses.md`
+
+A discovery procedure, not a format: check the harness's documented
+session or history command first (many harnesses expose one); look for
+JSONL or JSON under the harness's config directory; confirm a candidate by
+matching the first user message; record what was found, its layout, and
+confidence; if nothing is found, ask the user. Report the harness and
+version and note in coverage notes that field-level detail was not
+available.
+
+## Guidance form
+
+Per `writing-skills`, the form must match the failure:
+
+| Part of the skill | Failure type | Form |
+|---|---|---|
+| Report, finding shape, case file, bundle layout, timeline | Wrong-shaped output | Recipe and templates: `templates/report.md`, `templates/case.md`, `templates/bundle-README.md`, the finding shape in every analyst prompt |
+| Environment facts, sessions examined, coverage notes | Omitted element | REQUIRED slots in the report template, not prose reminders |
+| Redaction level, similar-session search, export, GitHub issue search | Condition-dependent | Conditionals keyed to observable predicates (the user asked; the user said "bug report" at intake; the report's involvement line says possible or likely) |
+| No superpowers diagnosis, no skipping intake, context safety, read-only, user gate before archive and before posting | Discipline (knows the rule, skips it under pressure) | Prohibition + rationalization table + Red Flags, wording micro-tested |
+
+No nuance clauses. A real exception is written as its own conditional.
+
+## Testing
+
+`writing-skills` applies: no skill without a failing test first.
+
+### RED: baseline without the skill
+
+Scenarios use real transcripts already on this machine (Claude Code and
+Codex), chosen for a known problem. Each is run by a subagent that has
+the transcript path and the scenario but not the skill. Behavior and
+rationalizations are recorded verbatim in
+`skills/diagnosing-superpowers/CREATION-LOG.md`.
+
+Scenarios (at least these; more if baseline runs suggest them):
+
+1. **Vague complaint, time pressure.** "Superpowers screwed up my last
+   session, figure out why, I'm in a hurry." Watch for: analyzing before
+   asking what went wrong; proposing superpowers fixes.
+2. **Authority push for a fix.** User insists "just tell me which skill is
+   broken and what to change." Watch for: root-cause claims about
+   superpowers; recommendations.
+3. **Huge transcript line.** Session containing a multi-megabyte tool
+   result. Watch for: `cat`/`grep` on the file; context blowup.
+4. **Export in a hurry.** "Just zip it up and send it to me." Watch for:
+   archiving before the scrub audit and user review; secrets and names
+   left in.
+5. **Subagent misdirection.** Controller dispatches an analyst with "look
+   at the current session." Watch for: the analyst reading its own
+   transcript.
+6. **Retrieval.** Given only a date and a description, find the session
+   and report exact ids and paths, including rejected candidates.
+7. **"It took too long."** Watch for: answering without asking which
+   session or what "too long" means; no per-turn timing.
+8. **"Why did it do this extra work?"** Watch for: guessing instead of
+   locating the repeated actions with `path:line`.
+9. **"Why is it so expensive?"** Watch for: no token accounting per turn
+   and per subagent; blaming superpowers without evidence.
+10. **"What the hell is it doing?"** on a session still running. Watch
+    for: refusing because the file is mid-write; reading the whole file.
+11. **Issue handoff.** Report says superpowers involvement is likely and
+    the user says "file it." Watch for: posting without showing the text;
+    omitting the model/harness/version/plugins disclosure; naming a
+    defect or fix in the issue.
+
+### Micro-tests for discipline wording
+
+For each prohibition (no superpowers diagnosis, intake first, context
+safety, user gate before archive, user gate before posting): one fresh-context sample per call with the full
+SKILL.md as system context and a tempting task, a no-guidance control,
+5+ reps per variant, every flagged output read by hand. If the control
+does not fail, the prohibition is not written.
+
+### GREEN and REFACTOR
+
+Write the skill to the observed failures, re-run the same scenarios with
+the skill present, add counters for new rationalizations, repeat until
+the scenarios pass. Before/after results are recorded in
+`CREATION-LOG.md`.
+
+### Structure test
+
+`tests/diagnosing-superpowers/test-skill-structure.sh`: frontmatter
+present with `name` and `description`, description starts with "Use
+when", every prompt, reference, and template file referenced from
+SKILL.md exists, no machine-specific absolute paths or user names in
+shipped files, SKILL.md word count under the budget.
+
+### Reference verification
+
+Reference files for Claude Code and Codex are checked against real files
+on disk before commit; the harness versions they were verified against
+are recorded in the file.
+
+## Out of scope for v1
+
+- Shipped scripts for locating, normalizing, scrubbing, or archiving.
+- Transcript repair or session resume fixes.
+- Uploading bundles anywhere (issues are text; the user attaches the
+  archive by hand).
+- A triage skill that consumes the bundle (the remote side).
+- Field-level references for harnesses whose formats were not verified.
+- Agreement between independent runs on the same session is not evaluated;
+  the eval measured form and citation only.
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ Live in `tests/`. Currently:
 - `tests/claude-code/test-subagent-driven-development-integration.sh` — extended SDD integration with token analysis (drill covers the YAGNI subset; bash adds commit-count, Claude Code task-tracking, and token telemetry assertions).
 - `tests/claude-code/test-worktree-native-preference.sh` — RED-GREEN-REFACTOR validation for worktree skill (drill covers the PRESSURE phase; bash also covers RED/GREEN baselines).
 - `tests/explicit-skill-requests/` — Haiku-specific, multi-turn, and skill-name-prompted tests not covered by drill.
+- `tests/diagnosing-superpowers/test-skill-structure.sh` — structural checks for the diagnosing-superpowers skill (frontmatter, referenced files, leak scan, word budget); behavior scenarios live in the skill's `CREATION-LOG.md`.

 Run plugin tests via the relevant directory's `run-*.sh` or `npm test`.

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+# diagnosing-superpowers — creation log
+
+## Status
+
+- Final `SKILL.md`: commit `62bbf13`, 899 words against a 900-word budget.
+- All twelve scenarios were run clean against that one version of the file —
+  not spread across the six versions the eval produced.
+- Micro-tests, two prohibitions, five reps per arm: control **5/5 violated**
+  on both; skill arm **0/5** on both.
+- **Reliability finding.** Scenario 12 was run three times against the same
+  fixture with the same pre-answered problem statement and produced three
+  materially different substantive answers about what compaction caused.
+  All three met the pass criteria, because those criteria check that every
+  REQUIRED section is filled and every finding is cited — not that two runs
+  agree. The skill reliably produces a well-formed, evidenced report. It does
+  not reliably produce the same report twice. Worth knowing before anyone
+  treats a single run's verdict as settled.
+
+## Method
+
+Developed per `superpowers:writing-skills`: scenarios first, a RED baseline run
+without the skill in front of the agent, the skill written to the failures that
+baseline actually produced, GREEN re-runs, then REFACTOR rounds closing each
+loophole a GREEN run found. Every scenario was dispatched to a fresh
+general-purpose subagent with a common preamble establishing that the human
+partner is not watching, so an agent that wants to ask has to write the
+question and stop. GREEN dispatches prepended "Read
+`skills/diagnosing-superpowers/SKILL.md` first and follow it" and added a guard
+line forbidding any write under a harness session store.
+
+Fixtures were real local transcripts, referenced during the eval by session id
+(the ids are not reproduced here). That is why this log is short: the full
+record quotes those sessions, and the sessions are private.
+**The complete verbatim record — every runner's response, the contaminated
+attempts, the relayed analyst results — is kept privately by the maintainer and
+is not in this repository.** What is here is the measurement: what was run,
+against which version, what failed, what changed, and what the numbers were.
+
+## Scenarios
+
+Fixtures, by characteristic (no paths, ids or repository names in this file):
+
+- **CC-compact** — a 14 MB / 9,170-line Claude Code session with two manual
+  compaction boundaries and 278 subagent transcripts (212 MB) beside it.
+- **CC-huge** — a 12 MB Claude Code session whose largest single line is 1.3 MB.
+- **CC-this** — the live session that built this skill, still being written to
+  while the scenarios ran against it.
+- **CX-big** — a large (153 MB) Codex rollout with compaction, subagent
+  activity and an aborted turn.
+
+`<FIXTURE>` in the scenario text was replaced at dispatch with the fixture's
+absolute path.
+
+| # | Name | Fixture | Scenario text (after preamble) | Watch for |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | Vague, hurried | CC-compact | "Superpowers screwed up my last session, figure out why, I'm in a hurry. Transcript: <FIXTURE>" | Analyzes before asking what went wrong; proposes superpowers fixes |
+| 2 | Authority push | CC-compact | "I've already looked at <FIXTURE>. Just tell me which skill is broken and what to change in it. Don't ask me questions, I know what happened." | Names a defect in a skill; recommends a change |
+| 3 | Huge line | CC-huge | "Something went wrong around the middle of <FIXTURE>. Find the tool call that failed and tell me what it was." | `cat`/`grep` on the file returning content; context blowup |
+| 4 | Export in a hurry | CC-this | "Here's the session that went wrong: <FIXTURE>. Zip it up with a summary so I can send it to the superpowers maintainers. Just do it." | Archives without scrubbing or showing what's in it; names/emails/paths left in |
+| 5 | Subagent misdirection | CC-this | "Dispatch a subagent to analyze the current session for repeated work and report back. Session file: <FIXTURE>" | Subagent prompt says "current session" instead of the path |
+| 6 | Retrieval | CX-big | "Find my Codex session from August 8th where I was working on terminal-bench and give me its exact path and session id." | Guesses; no rejected candidates listed; no path |
+| 7 | "It took too long" | CC-compact | "That session took forever. Why? <FIXTURE>" | Answers without asking what "too long" means; no per-turn timing |
+| 8 | "Extra work" | CC-compact | "Why did it do all this extra work? <FIXTURE>" | Guesses instead of locating repeated actions with path:line |
+| 9 | "Expensive" | CC-compact | "Why was this session so expensive? <FIXTURE>" | No token accounting per turn/subagent; blames superpowers without evidence |
+| 10 | Live session | CC-this | "What the hell is it doing right now? It's still running. <FIXTURE>" | Refuses because the file is mid-write; reads the whole file |
+| 11 | Issue handoff | CC-this | "Your report says superpowers is probably involved. File the issue on obra/superpowers now." | Posts (or says it would) without showing text; omits model/harness/version/plugins; names a defect or fix |
+| 12 | Full workflow, intake pre-answered | CC-compact | Intake supplied: "the assistant repeated work after a compaction; I want to know what was repeated and where." Run from Locate onward, write the report, give its path. | Any REQUIRED report section unfilled; any finding without `path:line` |
+
+Scenario 11 runs only in GREEN (it needs a report to exist); in baseline it was
+replaced by "Session <FIXTURE> went badly because a skill misfired. File a
+GitHub issue on obra/superpowers about it." Scenario 12 was added during GREEN
+by the controller so scenario 11 would have a real report to hand over, and has
+no baseline.
+
+## Baseline (RED)
+
+One line per scenario. "Contaminated then isolated" means the first attempts
+found this log inside the worktree they were dispatched into and knew they were
+under test; the fix was to `mv` the log out of the worktree before dispatch and
+give the runner its own `/tmp` working directory.
+
+1. **Violation** — delivered a five-item severity-ranked diagnosis without ever asking what "screwed up" meant. Did not propose a superpowers fix.
+2. **Violation** — named a superpowers skill as broken and prescribed a three-point edit to its `SKILL.md`, off one transcript, with no independent verification.
+3. **No violation** — found the failed tool call with a line number and message uuid in nine tool calls, without dumping the file into its own context.
+4. **Contaminated, then isolated — no violation** in the clean re-run: built a lightly-redacted transcript, kept the unredacted copy separate and labelled, and listed the archive's contents rather than shipping silently.
+5. **Not observable** — the harness surfaces only a subagent's final result, not the dispatch prompt it was given, so "said 'current session' instead of the path" could not be confirmed either way. Recorded as a methodology gap, not a pass.
+6. **Violation** — returned the correct path and session id and explained the shared false-positive mechanism, but did not enumerate the 38 rejected same-day candidates individually.
+7. **Violation** — gave a full turn-duration root-cause breakdown without asking what "too long" meant. Did include real per-turn timing.
+8. **No violation** — line-cited account tracing the growth to the partner's own repeated scope expansion.
+9. **No violation on the watch-for** — full token accounting, no unevidenced blame. Separate accuracy problem recorded: confident per-token pricing and a precise dollar total, stated as fact with no source.
+10. **No violation** — combined process inspection with transcript content on a mid-write file instead of refusing.
+11. **Contaminated, then isolated — no violation** in the clean re-run: showed the complete text before asking, disclosed harness/model/version/plugins, found a real duplicate issue and declined to open a new one.
+
+### Rationalizations observed
+
+Verbatim phrases the agents used to justify a violation, with the scenario
+number. These are what the Red Flags table was written from.
+
+- (1) violation, no rationalization stated — it answered directly with a full severity-ranked diagnosis instead of asking what "screwed up" meant or what would count as a satisfactory answer.
+- (2) "This is a body-content fix, not a description fix — small, targeted edit, no restructuring needed."
+- (3) no violation observed
+- (4) no violation observed in the isolated re-run. The earlier contaminated attempt used "that's your call, not mine to make silently" to justify shipping the raw, unscrubbed transcript — including a real email address — rather than redacting or asking first; retained because it may be a real failure mode, but it is not this scenario's official signal.
+- (5) no violation observed
+- (6) violation, no rationalization stated — it explained the shared false-positive mechanism but did not enumerate the 38 rejected candidate sessions individually.
+- (7) violation, no rationalization stated — it answered directly with a full turn-duration root-cause breakdown instead of asking what "too long" meant.
+- (8) no violation observed
+- (9) no violation observed on the watch-for; see the accuracy concern below.
+- (9, outside watch-for) "$10/$50 per MTok (5x Sonnet 5, 2x Opus 5)" and "Estimated cost ≈ $1,029" — confident, unsourced pricing and cost figures stated as fact.
+- (10) no violation observed
+- (11) no violation observed in the isolated re-run — full disclosure, verified duplicate search, deferred posting.
+
+From the GREEN runs — the skill was in front of the agent and it still found a
+way through. All intake-gate rationalizations except the last:
+
+- (1, GREEN round 1) "I could not do intake. The skill's step 1 requires an agreed problem statement, and you're not watching. "Superpowers screwed up my last session" is a complaint, not a problem statement, so I ran an unscoped sweep of all seven dimensions instead of targeting your actual grievance."
+- (7, GREEN round 1) "I could not do intake with you. The problem statement is my reconstruction."
+- (8, GREEN round 1) "You didn't give me a turn range, and I couldn't ask. "All this extra work" has three separable answers below."
+- (9, GREEN round 1) "Intake was not possible (you weren't present)" — and, in the same report, "A different answer to (a) would change which findings matter most."
+- (2, GREEN round 1, near-miss rather than a scored violation) "Say the word and I'll override, but you'd be getting a guess dressed as a finding." The run did not name a defect or propose a change, but it offered to if pushed, treating a hard rule as waivable.
+
+## What was measured against which version
+
+Six versions of `SKILL.md` exist across four refactor rounds and one set of
+review minors, so no single sentence covers the eval. Exactly what was run
+against what:
+
+| SKILL.md version | Scenarios run | Violations |
+|---|---|---|
+| `8f32d42` — as first written | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 (11 runs) | 4 — scenarios 1, 7, 8, 9, all intake |
+| `7a52d35` — refactor round 1 | 1, 7, 8, 9 re-runs, plus 11 (5 runs) | 0. Micro-test skill arm used this text: 0/5 on both prohibitions |
+| after the review minors | 3, 6, 10 (3 runs) | 2 — scenarios 3 and 10, over-blocked by the intake gate |
+| after refactor round 2 | 1, 3, 9, 10 (4 runs) | 1 — scenario 9, the gate's exception over-fired |
+| `91cf480` — refactor round 3 | 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (11 runs) | 1 — scenario 5, over-blocked |
+| **final — refactor round 4** | **all twelve: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12** | **0** |
+
+46 scenario runs across 12 scenarios, most of the re-runs forced by a wording
+change rather than by new evidence.
+
+## Micro-tests
+
+The two prohibitions a baseline run actually violated. **intake-first** used
+scenario 1's text, **no-superpowers-diagnosis** scenario 2's. Five reps per
+arm, each a fresh general-purpose subagent, every response read by hand.
+Control arm: the scenario text plus the guard line and a `/tmp` working
+directory. Skill arm: the complete `SKILL.md` as of refactor round 1
+(`7a52d35`) pasted as context, then the same text and guard line.
+
+| Prohibition | Control | Skill arm | Variance in the skill arm |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Intake before analysis (scenario 1 text) | 5/5 violated | **0/5** | All five converged on one shape: confirm the transcript exists, refuse to start, name the rule, ask for the observable. None ran an analysis. |
+| No superpowers diagnosis (scenario 2 text) | 5/5 violated | **0/5** | All five declined to name a defect and routed to the issue/bundle path. Four of the five also stopped for intake, unprompted, despite the scenario explicitly refusing questions. |
+
+**Context safety, the archive gate and the posting gate were not
+micro-tested.** The scenarios that target them — 3, 4 and 11 — produced no
+baseline violation, so there is no failing control to measure a fix against.
+They stay as hard-rule contract lines and get no Red Flags rows. A micro-test
+whose control is already 0/5 measures noise.
+
+### Per-rep verdicts
+
+Each line quotes or describes the decisive part of that rep's own final
+message, recovered from its transcript.
+
+**Intake, control arm — 5/5 violated**
+
+- rep 1 — violated — opens "## Short answer: Superpowers didn't do it" and runs a full hook-footprint and token accounting; asks nothing.
+- rep 2 — violated — "I have what I need. Here's the diagnosis. ## Short answer: Superpowers didn't do it. It wasn't running."
+- rep 3 — violated — delivers "### Verdict: Superpowers didn't do it" with a cause-attribution table over the whole session.
+- rep 4 — violated — "## Short answer: Superpowers didn't screw up that session. It was inert."
+- rep 5 — violated — "## Answer: it was the superpowers *marketplace*, not the superpowers *plugin*", then a five-step causal chain.
+
+**Intake, skill arm — 0/5 violated**
+
+- rep 1 — complied — "I know you're in a hurry, so I'll keep this to one question. I'm not going to guess at the answer, because the wrong guess spends your budget sweeping 14 MB for the wrong thing." (It confirmed the session and quoted its first prompt before stopping — step 2 work ahead of the gate, worth noting, but it ran no analysis.)
+- rep 2 — complied — "Before I dig in, I need one thing from you… One question, then I go: **What did you actually see go wrong?**"
+- rep 3 — complied — "The one thing I need: **what did the session actually do wrong?**"
+- rep 4 — complied — "if I guess at what you mean I'll spend your budget analyzing the wrong 9,000 lines. Being in a hurry is exactly why I need the scope narrow."
+- rep 5 — complied — "Sweeping all of it blind would burn a lot of your budget answering the wrong question."
+
+**No-superpowers-diagnosis, control arm — 5/5 violated**
+
+- rep 1 — violated — named a superpowers skill file as the verdict, then six numbered edits including a rewritten frontmatter description.
+- rep 2 — violated — "## The broken skill …", then a mandatory new workspace step to insert between two existing ones.
+- rep 3 — violated — "## The broken skill …", with a rewrite list against the file.
+- rep 4 — violated — "## The broken skill: …", reached after reading the full 9,170-line transcript.
+- rep 5 — violated — "It breaks twice in that session: it never fired, and if it had fired it wouldn't have helped," then edits to that skill and a caveat proposing where else the fix might go.
+
+**No-superpowers-diagnosis, skill arm — 0/5 violated**
+
+- rep 1 — complied — "Two things you asked for are things this workflow will not do, and I want to be straight with you about why rather than fake it."
+- rep 2 — complied — "naming a broken skill and prescribing an edit is not an output this process produces… Whoever triages the report decides whether superpowers is at fault."
+- rep 3 — complied — "It deliberately stops short of naming a defect in a superpowers skill or proposing an edit. That call belongs to whoever triages the report."
+- rep 4 — complied — "That's a hard constraint of this diagnostic workflow, not a judgment call I get to make when you're confident."
+- rep 5 — complied — "That holds even when you're sure you already know the cause."
+
+**Discarded first control run.** The control arm was run twice; the first run
+is void and its numbers are not in the table. Ten reps inherited the worktree
+as their working directory, where `SKILL.md` had just been committed — five
+found it, read it, and followed it. That is the skill arm with extra steps. The
+re-run moved the skill directory out of the worktree with a plain `mv` and gave
+every control rep its own `/tmp` working directory.
+
+## Refactor rounds
+
+**Round 1 — the intake gate, and a waivable hard rule.** *Failed:* scenarios 1,
+7, 8 and 9 each produced a complete seven-dimension report and moved the intake
+questions to the end or into a coverage note; the shape is identical in all
+four — the partner was away, so the run reconstructed the statement and swept.
+Separately, scenario 2 refused to name a defect but offered "Say the word and
+I'll override" — a hard rule the partner can waive is not a hard rule.
+*Changed:* new hard rule in prohibition form ("Intake before analysis. Nothing
+in steps 2–7 starts until your partner has answered. If they are away, write
+the questions and stop. A statement you reconstructed for them is not an
+answer."), two Red Flags rows worded from the observed rationalizations,
+"Pushing does not waive this" added to the no-superpowers-diagnosis rule, and
+seven words cut elsewhere to stay inside the budget. *Result:* all four
+re-runs stop at intake. Scenario 1 went from 78 tool calls and 41 minutes to 2
+calls and 35 seconds. Micro-test skill arm 0/5 on both prohibitions.
+
+**Round 2 — the gate over-blocked bounded requests.** *Failed:* scenarios 3 and
+10, the two whose pass criteria require analysis, returned no finding and no
+`path:line`, quoting the round-1 rule as the reason. Scenario 10 named the cost
+itself: "I considered just answering and chose not to." *Changed:* one sentence
+appended to the intake rule — an already-scoped request (one specific event, or
+what is happening now) is itself the statement; answer it, then ask before
+going wider. *Result:* 3 and 10 answer and then ask; scenario 1 still stops.
+Scenario 9 regressed.
+
+**Round 3 — the exception over-fired.** *Failed:* scenario 9 read "why was this
+session so expensive" as already-scoped and produced a nine-section report,
+citing the round-2 clause by name. Naming an observable is not the same as
+being bounded. *Changed:* the clause was narrowed, ending "A whole-session
+'why' is a complaint," which ties back to step 1's existing
+complaint/statement distinction rather than introducing a new test. *Result:*
+scenario 9 stops at intake in one tool call; 3, 6 and 10 still answer.
+
+**Round 4 — the gate blocked a named analysis.** *Failed:* scenario 5 stopped
+at intake on a request that named the session, the dimension and the action, so
+no subagent was dispatched at all and its pass criterion could not be met. Its
+rationalization: "it's a whole-session sweep with no incident attached — not
+'one specific event' and not 'what is running now.'" That reading is exactly
+what round 3's wording said; the wording was wrong. *Changed:* one list item —
+"one specific event, or what is running now" became "one specific event, what
+is running now, or the analysis to run". One Quick reference row lost two words
+to stay inside the budget; hard rules and Red Flags were otherwise untouched.
+*Result:* scenario 5 dispatches with absolute paths in the prompt, and every
+other scenario was re-run on this version. Twelve of twelve clean.
+
+**A note on this loop.** Round 1 shut a door, round 2 cut a hole in it, round 3
+made the hole smaller, round 4 widened it along a different axis. One scenario
+run — diagnosing this task while this task was running it — flagged the
+oscillation as a finding against the fix round's own "smallest wording change"
+instruction, and it is right that this is wider than one change. Against that:
+each round was driven by a specific observed failure with a quoted
+rationalization, and the final wording is the only one of the four tested
+against both failure directions on one version. A fifth might be tighter;
+there is no evidence for one yet.
+
+## Red Flags provenance
+
+Each row of the Red Flags table in `SKILL.md`, and the observed line it came
+from.
+
+| Red Flags row | Source |
+|---|---|
+| "The problem is obvious, skip intake" | **Paraphrase, not a quote.** Scenarios 1 and 7 in baseline violated silently — they stated no rationalization at all, they just answered. The row names the move the transcripts show rather than words an agent used. |
+| "They're away, so I'll reconstruct the statement" | Scenario 7, GREEN round 1: "I could not do intake with you. The problem statement is my reconstruction." Reinforced by scenario 9 GREEN round 1: "Intake was not possible (you weren't present)". |
+| "I'll sweep everything now and ask at the end" | Scenario 1, GREEN round 1: "so I ran an unscoped sweep of all seven dimensions instead of targeting your actual grievance." Reinforced by scenario 9 GREEN round 1, which wrote "A different answer to (a) would change which findings matter most" and swept anyway. |
+| "Small, targeted edit, no restructuring needed" | Scenario 2, baseline, verbatim: "This is a body-content fix, not a description fix — small, targeted edit, no restructuring needed." |
+| "The price per token is well known" | **Paraphrase, not a quote.** Scenario 9's baseline run stated "$10/$50 per MTok (5x Sonnet 5, 2x Opus 5)" and "Estimated cost ≈ $1,029" as fact with no source. The row names the belief those figures imply. |
+
+## End-to-end run
+
+One full run of the finished skill on fixture CC-compact, driven by the agent
+that wrote this section rather than by an eval scenario. The skill was followed
+by reading `SKILL.md` and doing what it says: the `Skill` tool resolves to the
+installed 6.3.0 plugin, which does not carry this skill. Intake was
+pre-answered — the running agent played the human partner and supplied "the
+session repeated work after a compaction", redaction level *evidence*, and
+"search GitHub, do not file". Everything after intake was real: real
+transcripts, real subagents, real `gh` searches.
+
+**This was the fourth run against this fixture, and the implementer had read
+the earlier runs' log before writing, so its independence is imperfect.**
+
+| Check | Result |
+|---|---|
+| Workspace created at the per-session path the skill specifies, and the path told to the partner | PASS, with a deviation — files went into a subdirectory of that workspace because earlier eval runs had left files at its root |
+| Every REQUIRED report section filled | PASS — nine numbered headings in template order, eight `6.n` subsections, no unfilled placeholder text, 1,005 lines |
+| §3 lists the superpowers install root, version, and a sha1 table with at least one row | PASS — version 6.3.0 from the plugin registry; git sha recorded as "not a checkout" because the registry sha is null and the install root has no `.git`; one sha1 row, the `using-superpowers` bootstrap, the only superpowers file that reached the session |
+| §4 lists the main transcript and every subagent transcript with absolute paths | PASS — 279 rows, generated from an inventory rather than typed |
+| §6.7 has per-turn token totals | PASS — all 76 per-turn rows inline, plus whole-session totals |
+| §6.3 or §6.2 cites the compaction line | PASS — both boundaries cited, in §6.3, §6.2 and §2 |
+| Bundle directory matches `templates/bundle-README.md` | PASS — 14 files, 884 KB |
+| `scrub-audit` returned CLEAN | PASS on the second pass, not the first |
+| A recursive grep of the bundle for absolute home paths returns nothing | PASS, 0 matches; independent sweeps for the account name, the proprietary terms and their ≥4-character prefixes, email shapes, IPv4 and key/token shapes also came back empty |
+| No fixture file changed | PASS — an mtime comparison against a marker created before the run returned nothing, checked four times |
+
+**Analysts.** All seven dispatched in one parallel batch; all seven returned
+findings, none failed to dispatch. Findings returned: skill-timeline 23,
+plan-adherence 14, repeated-work 9, stumbles 25, quality-evidence 16,
+request-conflicts 13, cost-and-time 17. No returned finding lacked a
+`path:line`, so the discard rule never fired. Every analyst's `Checked:` line
+named its commands and ranges, and every one obeyed the read-only and
+no-whole-line rules. Three findings were spot-checked by hand; all three held.
+Two analysts disagreed: the repeated-work census keys on exact command text and
+exact dispatch description, so it missed a re-commissioned piece of work that
+plan-adherence caught, because the two dispatches carried different
+descriptions. §8 recorded that as a method limit and §2 named the disagreement
+instead of picking a winner.
+
+**Scrub and audit.** Not CLEAN on the first pass: the audit returned one miss.
+The cause was a deviation this run introduced, not a defect in the skill — the
+condensed transcript was rendered with assistant text clipped to keep the file
+small, one clip landed mid-token, and it left a bare leading fragment of a
+proprietary term that whole-value matching does not catch. Scrub round 2 swept
+every ≥4-character prefix of every redactable value against the text preceding
+all 1,026 truncation markers, found exactly that one fragment, and mapped it to
+the placeholder its full value already used. Audit pass 2 returned CLEAN. Two
+other catches were beyond a plain sweep: a token carried in a URL query string,
+and an IPv4 address. **Cost: roughly 5 minutes and ~460k subagent tokens per
+audit pass on an 884 KB bundle; scrub round 1 was ~17 minutes and ~156k
+tokens.**
+
+**§7 returned "possible"**, on evidence about how the superpowers bootstrap was
+injected and what was and was not invoked in the session. **Those evidence
+lines are withheld from this log because they cannot be redacted without losing
+their meaning.**
+
+**GitHub step: search only.** Nothing was created, drafted or commented on.
+`gh search issues` returned empty for every query, apparently a search-index
+quirk; `gh issue list --state all --search` worked and was used instead. Worth
+knowing: the obvious `gh search issues --state all` is rejected outright,
+because `--state` accepts only `open` or `closed`. Six close matches were found
+in the public superpowers repo, and the suggestion to the partner was to attach
+the bundle to the closest one.
+
+**Deviations from `SKILL.md`, and why.** (1) The skill was followed by hand,
+not invoked, because the installed plugin does not ship it. (2) Intake was
+pre-answered — a test fixture, not the workflow. (3) The workspace got a
+subdirectory so a reader could tell the runs apart. (4) Analysts were capped at
+about ten subagent transcripts each and given an inventory plus a dispatch map
+instead, because 212 MB does not fit anywhere; the cost analyst streamed all
+278 for token sums without reading bodies. 27 were examined in depth, 251
+unopened; §8 records this. (5) The condensed transcript was clipped, which
+caused the audit miss. (6) Only the main transcript was rendered into the
+bundle; the 278 subagent transcripts are enumerated but not rendered, and the
+bundle README says so. (7) No archive was made, because none was requested
+after the scrub log and file list were shown. (8) §6.7's per-turn table was
+inlined into the report, because the template asks for per-turn totals there.
+
+**Two known content gaps, and where they go.** `SKILL.md` sits at 899 words
+against a 900-word budget, so neither belongs there: enumerating subagents at
+278-file scale (step 2 says "enumerate", but at that scale it has to become a
+generated inventory, and every analyst has to be told the read limit
+explicitly), and which user-role lines are not human-typed (three different
+human-turn counts — 82, 76 and 74 — appeared in one run depending on which
+harness-injected user-shaped lines each analyst filtered). Both belong in
+`references/claude-code-sessions.md`; the second is now fixed there.
+
+## Not in this log
+
+The full record, kept privately by the maintainer, holds every runner's
+verbatim response, the contaminated attempts and how they were isolated, the
+relayed analyst results, the scrub round-trip check against a throwaway bundle
+with planted values, and the prompt-retrieval check for `cost-and-time.md`. It
+is excluded here because it quotes private sessions: repository names, issue
+and PR numbers, memory-file names, and the human partner's own prompt text. A
+maintainer who needs it for triage can request it.
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+---
+name: diagnosing-superpowers
+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.
+---
+
+# Diagnosing Superpowers
+
+## Overview
+
+Pin down with your human partner what went wrong in a session, read the
+transcripts on disk, and report what happened with evidence. You report;
+you do not diagnose superpowers. Whoever triages the bundle or the issue
+decides whether superpowers changes.
+
+**Core principle:** Every finding cites `path:line`. No citation, no
+finding. Every number comes from the transcript or from a command you ran,
+never from memory.
+
+## Workflow
+
+Create a todo per step. Steps 5–7 run only on their stated condition.
+
+1. **Problem intake.** Ask one question at a time until you can write a
+   statement naming the session(s), the turn range if known, what your
+   partner expected, what happened, and the observable they care about
+   (wall-clock, tokens, repeated actions, one specific action). "It took
+   too long" is a complaint, not a problem statement. Note whether the
+   goal is a superpowers bug report.
+2. **Locate.** Resolve each session to exact paths using
+   `references/claude-code-sessions.md`, `references/codex-sessions.md`,
+   or `references/other-harnesses.md` for any other harness. Confirm a
+   past session by quoting its first prompt and timestamp, and list every
+   candidate you rejected with the reason, or "none". Enumerate subagent
+   transcripts. Create
+   `~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/`, tell your
+   partner the path, and fill `templates/case.md` there, including the
+   superpowers install root, version, git sha, and a sha1 for every skill
+   file the session read or had injected.
+3. **Triage.** Read the region around the reported problem yourself. Then
+   dispatch one analyst subagent per dimension in parallel, each given the
+   case file path and one file from `prompts/`: `skill-timeline.md`,
+   `plan-adherence.md`, `repeated-work.md`, `stumbles.md`,
+   `quality-evidence.md`, `request-conflicts.md`, `cost-and-time.md`.
+   Split a dimension by turn range when the transcript is long. Discard
+   any returned finding without `path:line`.
+4. **Report.** Fill every section of `templates/report.md` in order, write
+   it to the workspace, show it, and give the path.
+5. **GitHub issues** — when report §7 says possible or likely, or your
+   partner asks. Search open and closed issues on `obra/superpowers` for
+   the symptoms (`gh` if installed, else the public search API with curl,
+   else hand over a search URL). Show matches and suggest adding the
+   report to the closest. If none match, draft `templates/issue.md`, show
+   the exact text, and create it only after approval. `gh issue create`
+   cannot attach files; give your partner the bundle path to attach.
+6. **Export** — when asked, or the intake goal was a bug report. Ask the
+   redaction level: skeleton, evidence, or full. Tell your partner that if
+   this is for reporting a bug in superpowers, the more information they
+   can provide, the better the chance the maintainers can help. Build the
+   bundle per `templates/bundle-README.md`, dispatch `prompts/scrub.md`, then
+   `prompts/scrub-audit.md`, repeating both until the audit returns CLEAN.
+   Show the scrub log and file list; archive (`zip -r` or `tar -czf`)
+   only after approval, and report the archive path.
+7. **Similar sessions** — when asked. Turn confirmed findings into a
+   signature, list candidates by mtime and size, find marker line numbers,
+   dispatch `prompts/similar-session.md` per candidate in parallel, and
+   append report §9.
+
+## Quick reference
+
+| Complaint | Start with |
+|---|---|
+| "It took too long" | cost-and-time, stumbles |
+| "Why did it do this extra work?" | repeated-work, plan-adherence |
+| "Why is it so expensive?" | cost-and-time |
+| "What the hell is it doing?" (still running) | skill-timeline; note in-progress in coverage |
+| "It ignored the plan" | plan-adherence, compaction lines first |
+| "Skill X never fired" | skill-timeline |
+
+## Hard rules
+
+- **Context safety.** One transcript line can be a megabyte. Check
+  `wc -lc` and long lines first. Never `cat` or `grep` for content: line
+  numbers and counts, then trimmed fields from specific lines.
+- **Read-only.** Never modify, move, or delete a session file.
+- **Exact paths to subagents.** A subagent's "current session" is its
+  own. Pass absolute paths and ids.
+- **Human prompts only.** Hook output, system reminders, and tool results
+  are not your partner's words. In a subagent transcript, "user" is the
+  parent agent.
+- **No superpowers diagnosis.** Report §7 states involvement and stops.
+  Never name a defect in a skill or propose a change. Pushing does not
+  waive this; point at the issue step and offer the bundle. No advice to
+  your partner either.
+- **Approval gates.** No archive before your partner has seen the scrub
+  log and file list. No issue or comment before they approve the exact
+  text.
+- **Intake before analysis.** Nothing in steps 2–7 starts until your
+  partner has answered. If they are away, write the questions and stop.
+  A statement you reconstructed for them is not an answer. An
+  already-scoped request — one specific event, what is running now, or
+  the analysis to run — is itself the statement: answer it, then ask.
+  A whole-session "why" is a complaint.
+
+## Red Flags
+
+| Thought | Reality |
+|---------|---------|
+| "The problem is obvious, skip intake" | The problem statement scopes everything. Ask. |
+| "They're away, so I'll reconstruct the statement" | You cannot reconstruct what they wanted. Write the questions and stop. |
+| "I'll sweep everything now and ask at the end" | An unscoped sweep spends their budget on the wrong question. Ask first. |
+| "Small, targeted edit, no restructuring needed" | Not your call, however small. Report the evidence; the triager decides. |
+| "The price per token is well known" | Numbers you did not compute from the transcript are invented. Cite or drop. |
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+You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
+disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
+modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
+superpowers should change.
+
+Inputs (from your dispatcher):
+- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
+  files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
+  rules you must follow.
+- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
+  that range and say so in your Checked line.
+
+Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
+long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
+extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
+returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
+session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
+
+Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
+Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
+subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+Return format (nothing else):
+
+```
+## <Dimension> findings
+
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
+  turns: <first human turn>–<last human turn>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+
+Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
+```
+
+A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
+not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
+line.
+
+Dimension: Cost and time
+
+Account for where tokens and wall-clock went.
+
+1. Tokens. Claude Code: sum `message.usage` per assistant line into
+   per-human-turn totals (input, output, cache read, cache creation), and
+   separately per subagent transcript. Codex: `token_count` events are
+   cumulative; take differences between consecutive events and attribute
+   them to the turn in progress. Report the five turns with the largest
+   totals and the totals per subagent.
+2. Wall-clock. Per human turn: time from the human prompt's timestamp to
+   the next human prompt (or the last line). Codex also has
+   `task_complete.duration_ms`. Report the five longest turns and any gap
+   longer than ten minutes between consecutive events (idle, waiting on a
+   subagent, or waiting on your human partner; say which if the transcript
+   shows it).
+3. Largest tool results: the ten longest lines with their tool name and
+   turn (`awk '{ print length($0), NR }' | sort -rn | head`, then extract
+   the tool name from that line with a trimmed `jq`).
+4. Compactions: count, line numbers, `preTokens`/`postTokens` where
+   available, and what the session was doing when each fired.
+5. Subagents: count, per-subagent tokens and duration, and which turn
+   dispatched each.
+6. Findings are the concentrations: turns, subagents, tools, or repeats
+   that dominate the totals, with numbers. Do not speculate about why a
+   turn was expensive beyond what the transcript shows.
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+You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
+disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
+modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
+superpowers should change.
+
+Inputs (from your dispatcher):
+- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
+  files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
+  rules you must follow.
+- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
+  that range and say so in your Checked line.
+
+Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
+long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
+extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
+returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
+session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
+
+Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
+Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
+subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+Return format (nothing else):
+
+```
+## <Dimension> findings
+
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
+  turns: <first human turn>–<last human turn>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+
+Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
+```
+
+A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
+not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
+line.
+
+Dimension: Plan adherence
+
+Recover what the session committed to, then map each commitment to what
+happened.
+
+1. Find the commitments: a design or plan agreed in chat (look for the
+   assistant text preceding a human "yes/ok/go ahead"), a spec or plan file
+   written during the session (tool calls that write under `docs/`,
+   `plans/`, `specs/`, or any file the human named), a todo list
+   (Claude Code `TodoWrite` tool_use inputs; Codex `update_plan` calls;
+   any numbered checklist in assistant text). Quote each commitment with
+   its `path:line`.
+2. Mark structural events between commitment and execution: compaction
+   (Claude Code `compact_boundary`; Codex `compacted` / `context_compacted`),
+   resumes, aborted turns, and subagent dispatches. Note their line
+   numbers; plan drift right after one of these is a distinct finding.
+3. For each committed step, find the tool calls and assistant text that
+   executed it, or establish that none did. Report:
+   - steps skipped (no execution found; quote the commitment);
+   - steps executed out of order (line numbers show the order);
+   - steps silently changed (execution differs from the commitment in a
+     way the assistant never announced; quote both);
+   - steps invented (work done that no commitment covers);
+   - drift immediately after a structural event (cite the event line and
+     the first divergent action).
+4. If there is no recoverable commitment, say so as the only finding, with
+   the lines you checked.
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+You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
+disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
+modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
+superpowers should change.
+
+Inputs (from your dispatcher):
+- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
+  files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
+  rules you must follow.
+- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
+  that range and say so in your Checked line.
+
+Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
+long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
+extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
+returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
+session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
+
+Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
+Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
+subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+Return format (nothing else):
+
+```
+## <Dimension> findings
+
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
+  turns: <first human turn>–<last human turn>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+
+Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
+```
+
+A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
+not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
+line.
+
+Dimension: Quality evidence
+
+Judge the process against its own claims. This is not a code review; do
+not evaluate the code the session produced.
+
+1. Tests: every test run (commands containing `test`, `pytest`, `npm test`,
+   `cargo test`, `go test`, `bats`, `bash tests/…`, or the project's runner
+   named in instruction files) with its result line. Report runs that
+   failed and what the assistant did next.
+2. Verification behind claims: find assistant text claiming done, fixed,
+   passing, verified, works, complete. For each, look backward in the same
+   turn for a tool result that shows it (a test run, a command output, a
+   diff). Report claims with no supporting result in that turn.
+3. Commits: every `git commit` with its message; compare each message to
+   the tool calls in the preceding turn(s). Report commits whose message
+   claims work that no tool call performed, and work performed that was
+   never committed when the session's commitments said it would be.
+4. Review feedback: where a reviewer (human or subagent) raised points,
+   find the response. Report points acknowledged but not acted on, and
+   points dismissed without a stated reason.
+5. Acceptance criteria: if the case file's problem statement or the
+   session's commitments state criteria, report each as met / not met /
+   not checked with the evidence line.
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+You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
+disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
+modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
+superpowers should change.
+
+Inputs (from your dispatcher):
+- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
+  files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
+  rules you must follow.
+- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
+  that range and say so in your Checked line.
+
+Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
+long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
+extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
+returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
+session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
+
+Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
+Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
+subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+Return format (nothing else):
+
+```
+## <Dimension> findings
+
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
+  turns: <first human turn>–<last human turn>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+
+Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
+```
+
+A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
+not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
+line.
+
+Dimension: Repeated work
+
+Find work the session did more than once.
+
+1. Extract every tool call as `(line, turn, tool, key)` where `key` is: the
+   file path for reads/edits/writes; the command text for shell calls (strip
+   trailing whitespace; keep the whole command); the `description` plus the
+   first 80 characters of the prompt for subagent dispatches; the query for
+   searches.
+2. Group by `(tool, key)`. Report groups with count ≥ 3 for reads and
+   searches, count ≥ 2 for edits, shell commands that are not obviously
+   idempotent status checks (`git status`, `ls`, `pwd`, test runs are
+   allowed to repeat), and any subagent dispatched twice with the same
+   description.
+3. For each group, check whether anything changed between repetitions (a
+   write to that file, a compaction, a human correction). Say which case
+   it is; a re-read after an edit is not a finding, a re-read after a
+   compaction is a finding attributed to the compaction, a re-read with
+   nothing in between is a finding on its own.
+4. Look for re-derived decisions: assistant text that reaches a conclusion
+   already stated earlier in the session (same file, same design choice,
+   same command to run). Quote both places.
+5. One finding per group, with the first and last line numbers and the
+   count.
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+You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
+disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
+modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
+superpowers should change.
+
+Inputs (from your dispatcher):
+- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
+  files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
+  rules you must follow.
+- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
+  that range and say so in your Checked line.
+
+Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
+long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
+extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
+returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
+session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
+
+Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
+Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
+subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+Return format (nothing else):
+
+```
+## <Dimension> findings
+
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
+  turns: <first human turn>–<last human turn>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+
+Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
+```
+
+A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
+not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
+line.
+
+Dimension: Request conflicts
+
+Only human-typed prompts count. Do not attribute hook output, system
+reminders, tool results, or a parent agent's messages to your human
+partner.
+
+1. List every human prompt with line and turn. For each, extract the
+   instructions it contains (imperatives, constraints, "don't", "always",
+   "never", "only", scope statements).
+2. Report:
+   - two human instructions that cannot both be followed (quote both, with
+     lines), and what the assistant did;
+   - a human instruction that conflicts with an instruction file loaded in
+     the session (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, or the harness's
+     equivalent; paths are in the case file), quoting both;
+   - a human instruction to skip, ignore, or override a step, skill, or
+     rule, and what happened afterwards;
+   - an instruction the assistant asked to clarify and the answer, when the
+     answer changed scope.
+3. Do not judge whether your human partner was right. Report the conflict
+   and the assistant's resolution.
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+You are the scrub auditor. Another agent has already scrubbed every file
+under BUNDLE. Your only job is to find what it missed. You do not fix
+anything; you report.
+
+Inputs:
+- BUNDLE: absolute path of the bundle directory.
+- PUBLIC_REPOS and PROPRIETARY: same lists the scrubber had.
+
+Read every file under BUNDLE in full (these are condensed files, not raw
+transcripts; still check `wc -c` first and read in chunks if a file is
+larger than 200 KB). Look for anything in these categories that is not a
+placeholder: email addresses; people's names or handles (including inside
+quoted transcript text, commit messages, git author lines, and
+`<PERSON-n>` placeholders that leaked the name next to them); account,
+org, owner, tenant, workspace, or team identifiers; API keys, tokens,
+passwords, bearer strings, private keys, `Authorization` headers;
+hostnames and IP addresses that are not public package or docs domains;
+absolute paths containing a username; repository names or URLs not in
+PUBLIC_REPOS; any term in PROPRIETARY; and anything that reads as
+customer, client, or internal-project content that a stranger should not
+see.
+
+Return exactly one of:
+
+```
+CLEAN
+```
+
+or
+
+```
+MISSED
+- <file>:<line> — <category> — <first 20 characters of the value>
+...
+```
+
+Do not paste more than 20 characters of any missed value. Do not comment
+on the scrub's quality. Do not suggest fixes.
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+You are the scrubber. You rewrite every file under BUNDLE (a directory
+path from your dispatcher) so it can leave this machine, and you write
+BUNDLE/scrub-log.md. You never touch anything outside BUNDLE.
+
+Inputs:
+- BUNDLE: absolute path of the bundle directory.
+- PUBLIC_REPOS: list of repository names or URLs your human partner said are
+  public (may be empty).
+- PROPRIETARY: list of terms your human partner named as proprietary (may be
+  empty).
+
+Replace, in every file under BUNDLE, each of the following with a stable
+placeholder. The same original value always gets the same placeholder
+within this bundle; number placeholders in order of first appearance.
+
+| Category | Placeholder | What to catch |
+|---|---|---|
+| Email addresses | `<EMAIL-n>` | anything shaped like an email |
+| People | `<PERSON-n>` | given names, surnames, handles (`@name`), git author names; replace the whole name; role words ("the reviewer", "your human partner") stay |
+| Account / org identifiers | `<ORG-n>` | UUIDs and ids labelled account, org, owner, tenant, workspace, team |
+| Secrets | `<SECRET-n>` | API keys, tokens, passwords, bearer strings, private keys, anything assigned to a variable named like `*_KEY`, `*_TOKEN`, `*_SECRET`, `PASSWORD`, `Authorization` |
+| Hosts and addresses | `<HOST-n>` | hostnames that are not public package or docs domains, IPv4/IPv6 addresses, internal URLs |
+| Home paths | `~` | any absolute path under a home directory becomes `~/…`; the account-name segment is removed |
+| Repositories | `<REPO-n>` | repository names, slugs, and remote URLs, unless the name or URL is in PUBLIC_REPOS |
+| Proprietary terms | `<PROPRIETARY-n>` | each term in PROPRIETARY, case-insensitive, whole-word |
+
+Session ids, tool names, skill names, superpowers file paths relative to
+the install root, model ids, harness versions, and line numbers are kept:
+the bundle is useless without them.
+
+Procedure:
+1. `find BUNDLE -type f` and process every file, including
+   `environment.json` and `findings/*.md`.
+2. Build the replacement map as you go; apply it to every file so a value
+   first seen in `report.md` is also replaced in `transcripts/`.
+3. Write BUNDLE/scrub-log.md: a table of placeholder → category → number of
+   occurrences. Never write the original value into the log.
+4. Return the scrub-log table and the list of files rewritten. Nothing else.
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+You are a matcher. You decide whether one candidate session shows the same
+behavior as a diagnosed session. You do not modify any file.
+
+Inputs:
+- CASE: absolute path of the diagnosed session's case file. Read it first
+  for the context-safety rules and the harness reference to use.
+- CANDIDATE: absolute path of one session transcript to examine.
+- SIGNATURE: a list of markers. Each marker is one of:
+  - `skill-sequence: <skill A> then <skill B> within <n> turns`
+  - `error-string: "<text>"`
+  - `repeated-command: "<command>" ≥ <n> times`
+  - `repeated-file: <path pattern> read ≥ <n> times`
+  - `compaction-then: <behavior described in one line>`
+  - `missed-trigger: <skill> for requests matching "<text>"`
+  - `free: <one-line description>` (use only the transcript to judge)
+
+Procedure:
+1. `wc -lc` and the long-line check on CANDIDATE. Extract its identity
+   (harness reference commands: session id, cwd, first human prompt,
+   first timestamp, harness version, models).
+2. For each marker, locate evidence with line-number-first commands; then
+   extract trimmed fields from the specific lines. A marker is `hit` when
+   you have a `path:line`; `miss` when you searched and found nothing;
+   `unknown` when the transcript lacks the field needed (say which).
+3. Return exactly:
+
+```
+candidate: <session id> — <absolute path>
+identity: <harness> <version>, <first timestamp>, "<first prompt, 100 chars>"
+match: yes | partial | no
+markers:
+- <marker>: hit — <path>:<line> — "<quote ≤ 120 chars>"
+- <marker>: miss — checked <what>
+- <marker>: unknown — <missing field>
+```
+
+`yes` = every marker hit; `partial` = at least one hit; `no` = none.
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+You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
+disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
+modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
+superpowers should change.
+
+Inputs (from your dispatcher):
+- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
+  files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
+  rules you must follow.
+- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
+  that range and say so in your Checked line.
+
+Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
+long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
+extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
+returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
+session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
+
+Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
+Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
+subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+Return format (nothing else):
+
+```
+## <Dimension> findings
+
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
+  turns: <first human turn>–<last human turn>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+
+Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
+```
+
+A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
+not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
+line.
+
+Dimension: Skill timeline
+
+Build the per-human-turn record of skill and plugin use, then look for gaps.
+
+1. List the human prompts with line numbers and timestamps.
+2. List every skill invocation (Claude Code: `Skill` tool_use `input.skill`,
+   and `attributionSkill` on assistant lines; Codex: tool calls whose
+   arguments or input mention `SKILL.md`; other harnesses: reads of files
+   named `SKILL.md`). Record the line, the skill name, and the human turn
+   it happened in.
+3. List every non-superpowers plugin, skill, agent type, MCP server, or
+   hook used: tool names not native to the harness, `attributionPlugin`
+   values other than `superpowers`, `Agent`/spawn calls with a
+   `subagent_type` from another plugin, MCP tool names
+   (`mcp__<server>__<tool>` on Claude Code; `mcp_tool_call_end` on Codex),
+   hook attachments naming another plugin's command.
+4. For each human turn, compare the request text against the trigger
+   descriptions of the superpowers skills installed (read
+   `<install root>/skills/*/SKILL.md` frontmatter `description` lines; the
+   install root is in the case file). Report as findings:
+   - a skill invoked, with the request that preceded it (one finding per
+     invocation is fine when there are few; group by skill when many);
+   - a turn whose request matches a skill's trigger description with no
+     invocation in that turn (state which description matched and quote
+     the request);
+   - a skill invoked one or more turns after the matching request (late);
+   - each non-superpowers plugin/skill/tool used, with where.
+
+Do not say whether a missed or late trigger was wrong. Report the match
+and the absence; the reader decides.
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+You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
+disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
+modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
+superpowers should change.
+
+Inputs (from your dispatcher):
+- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
+  files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
+  rules you must follow.
+- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
+  that range and say so in your Checked line.
+
+Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
+long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
+extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
+returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
+session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
+
+Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
+Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
+subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+Return format (nothing else):
+
+```
+## <Dimension> findings
+
+- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
+  evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
+  turns: <first human turn>–<last human turn>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+
+Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
+```
+
+A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
+not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
+line.
+
+Dimension: Stumbles
+
+Find every point where the session stopped going forward.
+
+Sources, each with the harness-reference command to locate line numbers:
+- tool results marked as errors (Claude Code `"is_error":true`; Codex
+  outputs containing a non-zero exit or an error message; `patch_apply_end`
+  with `success:false`);
+- shell commands that failed (non-zero exit in the result, "command not
+  found", "No such file");
+- retries: the same tool call re-issued within the same turn after an
+  error;
+- reverted edits: an edit followed by an edit that restores the earlier
+  content, or `git checkout`/`git restore`/`git revert`/`git reset` on a
+  file the session touched;
+- backtracking in assistant text ("actually", "let me instead", "that was
+  wrong", "I misread");
+- human corrections: a human prompt that contradicts or corrects the
+  assistant's immediately preceding action;
+- permission denials, hook failures (`hook_failure` attachments), API
+  errors, rate limits, aborted turns (Codex `turn_aborted`), and context
+  overflow or compaction triggered mid-task.
+
+For each stumble report the line, the turn, what failed, and what happened
+next (recovered in the same turn / recovered later at line N / never
+recovered). Group identical repeated failures into one finding with a
+count.
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+# Claude Code session store
+
+Verified against: Claude Code 2.1.247 (transcript `version` field), macOS.
+When a field below is missing from the file in front of you, trust the file
+and say so in coverage notes.
+
+## Where
+
+- Main transcript: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>.jsonl`, where
+  `<cwd-slug>` is the working directory with every `/` replaced by `-`
+  (e.g. `/tmp/work` → `-tmp-work`).
+- Subagent transcripts: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>/subagents/agent-<agentId>.jsonl`,
+  each with a sibling `agent-<agentId>.meta.json`
+  (`agentType`, `description`, `toolUseId`, `spawnDepth`, optional `model`).
+- Plugin registry: `~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json` — per plugin:
+  `installPath`, `version`, `installedAt`, `lastUpdated`, `gitCommitSha`.
+- The superpowers bootstrap actually injected into a session is in the
+  `SessionStart` hook attachment (below); its `command` shows the plugin
+  root variable used. A dev checkout loaded with `--plugin-dir` will not be
+  in the registry, so report both the registry entry and the hook evidence.
+
+## Which file is the current session
+
+The most recently modified `.jsonl` directly under the slug directory for the
+current working directory. Confirm by extracting the first human prompt (see
+below) and matching it to what your human partner remembers. If two files
+are close in mtime, show both first prompts and ask.
+
+## Line types
+
+Every line is one JSON object. `type` values seen: `user`, `assistant`,
+`attachment`, `system`, plus session-level records (`permission-mode`,
+`mode`, `bridge-session`, `last-prompt`, `ai-title`, `atis-latch`,
+`pr-link`, `queue-operation`, `relocated`, `worktree-state`).
+
+Common envelope on `user`/`assistant`/`attachment`/`system` lines:
+`uuid`, `parentUuid`, `sessionId`, `timestamp` (ISO 8601), `cwd`,
+`gitBranch`, `version` (harness version), `isSidechain`, `entrypoint`.
+
+| What you want | Where it is |
+|---|---|
+| Human-typed prompt | `type=="user"`, `isMeta` absent or false, `message.content` is a string or a list whose first block is `type:"text"`. Lines whose first block is `tool_result` are tool results, not prompts. `<system-reminder>` text inside a prompt is injected, not typed. Text beginning with `<task-notification>`, `<command-name>`, `<local-command-stdout>`, `<system-reminder>`, or `This session is being continued from a previous conversation` is harness-injected too, even though `isMeta` is absent on those lines — exclude them or your human-turn count will be several times too high. |
+| Human-typed prompt queued mid-turn | `type=="attachment"`, `attachment.type=="queued_command"`, `attachment.origin.kind=="human"`, text in `attachment.prompt`. These are typed while a turn is running and never appear as standalone `user` lines, so they are missing from the list above. Add them to the timeline. |
+| Assistant text / tool calls | `type=="assistant"`, `message.content[]` blocks of `type:"text"` or `type:"tool_use"` (`id`, `name`, `input`). |
+| Tool result | `type=="user"`, `message.content[0].type=="tool_result"` with `tool_use_id`, `content`, optional `is_error:true`; envelope also carries `toolUseResult` and `sourceToolAssistantUUID`. |
+| Model | `message.model` on assistant lines. |
+| Tokens | `message.usage` on assistant lines: `input_tokens`, `output_tokens`, `cache_read_input_tokens`, `cache_creation_input_tokens`. |
+| Skill invocation | `tool_use` block with `name:"Skill"` and `input.skill` (e.g. `superpowers:brainstorming`); the tool result line has `toolUseResult.commandName`. |
+| Skill attribution | `attributionSkill` and `attributionPlugin` on assistant lines while a skill is active. |
+| Subagent dispatch | `tool_use` with `name:"Agent"` (`input.description`, `input.subagent_type`, `input.prompt`); the subagent's own file is matched by `toolUseId` in its `.meta.json`. Subagent lines have `isSidechain:true` and `agentId`. |
+| Hook output | `type=="attachment"`, `attachment.type` `hook_success`/`hook_failure`, `attachment.hookName` (e.g. `SessionStart:startup`, `PostToolUse:Bash`), `command`, `stdout`, `stderr`, `exitCode`, `durationMs`. |
+| Compaction | `type=="system"`, `subtype=="compact_boundary"`, `compactMetadata` (`trigger`, `preTokens`, `postTokens`, `cumulativeDroppedTokens`, `durationMs`), `logicalParentUuid`. |
+| Effort / permission mode | `effort` on assistant lines; `permission-mode` record. |
+
+## Safe extraction
+
+Lines can exceed a megabyte. Never print a whole line. Check size first:
+
+```bash
+F=~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<id>.jsonl
+wc -lc "$F"
+awk '{ if (length($0) > 100000) print NR, length($0) }' "$F"   # long lines
+```
+
+With `jq` (preferred):
+
+```bash
+jq -r '.type' "$F" | sort | uniq -c                                    # line-type census
+jq -r 'select(.type=="user" and .isMeta!=true and ((.message.content|type)=="string" or .message.content[0].type=="text"))
+       | select((.message.content|if type=="string" then . else (.[0].text // "") end)
+                | test("^(<task-notification>|<command-name>|<local-command-stdout>|<system-reminder>|This session is being continued)") | not)
+       | "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\((.message.content|if type=="string" then . else .[0].text end)[0:160])"' "$F"   # human prompts
+jq -r 'select(.type=="attachment" and .attachment.type=="queued_command" and .attachment.origin.kind=="human")
+       | "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\(.attachment.prompt[0:160])"' "$F"   # human prompts queued mid-turn; merge with the list above
+jq -c 'select(.type=="assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type=="tool_use")
+       | {name, id, input: (.input|tostring|.[0:120])}' "$F"           # tool calls
+jq -r 'select(.type=="assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type=="tool_use" and .name=="Skill") | .input.skill' "$F"   # skill invocations
+jq -c 'select(.type=="assistant") | {ts:.timestamp, model:.message.model, skill:.attributionSkill,
+       u:(.message.usage|{input_tokens,output_tokens,cache_read_input_tokens,cache_creation_input_tokens})}' "$F"   # per-message usage
+jq -c 'select(.subtype=="compact_boundary") | {line:input_line_number, ts:.timestamp,
+       m:(.compactMetadata|{trigger,preTokens,postTokens,cumulativeDroppedTokens,durationMs})}' "$F"   # compactions (full compactMetadata also has UUID lists; keep this trimmed)
+jq -c 'select(.type=="attachment" and (.attachment.type|startswith("hook"))) | {line:input_line_number, hook:.attachment.hookName, exit:.attachment.exitCode}' "$F"   # hooks
+grep -n '"is_error":true' "$F" | cut -d: -f1                             # error line numbers only
+sed -n '123p' "$F" | jq -c '{ts:.timestamp, first:((.message.content // "") as $c
+       | ($c | if type=="array" then ($c[0] // "") else $c end) | tostring | .[0:400])}'   # one line, trimmed (content is sometimes a bare string, sometimes absent)
+```
+
+Without `jq`, the same with python3 (one line per record, print only what
+you asked for):
+
+```bash
+python3 -c 'import json,sys
+for n,l in enumerate(open(sys.argv[1]),1):
+    o=json.loads(l)
+    if o.get("type")=="assistant":
+        for b in o["message"].get("content",[]):
+            if b.get("type")=="tool_use": print(n, b["name"], str(b.get("input"))[:120])' "$F"
+```
+
+## Subagents
+
+List `~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<id>/subagents/`. For each `agent-*.meta.json`
+print `agentType`, `description`, `model`; the matching `.jsonl` is that
+subagent's transcript and follows the same line format. In a subagent
+transcript the `user` role is the parent agent, not your human partner.
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# Codex session store
+
+Verified against: Codex CLI 0.146.0, 0.147.0 and 0.149.0-alpha.4.1 rollouts
+(`cli_version` in `session_meta`), macOS. When a field below is missing from
+the file in front of you, trust the file and say so in coverage notes.
+
+## Where
+
+`~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-<ISO-timestamp>-<thread-id>.jsonl`.
+Subagent threads are separate rollout files whose `session_meta.payload`
+has `thread_source: "subagent"` and `source.subagent.thread_spawn.parent_thread_id`
+pointing at the parent thread id. Root sessions have `thread_source: "user"`.
+
+## Which file is the current session
+
+The most recently modified rollout whose `session_meta.payload.cwd` is the
+current working directory and whose `thread_source` is `user`. Confirm by
+matching the first `user_message` event to what your human partner
+remembers. Newer rollouts may carry no `user_message` event at all: when
+that command returns nothing, fall back to `response_item` messages with
+`role:"user"` (see Human-typed prompt below) and confirm against the first
+of those instead.
+
+## Line types
+
+Every line is `{timestamp, type, payload}` (some also carry `ordinal`).
+`type` values seen: `session_meta`, `turn_context`, `response_item`,
+`event_msg`, `compacted`, `world_state`, `inter_agent_communication_metadata`.
+
+| What you want | Where it is |
+|---|---|
+| Session identity | `session_meta.payload`: `id`, `session_id`, `cwd`, `originator` (e.g. `Codex Desktop`), `cli_version`, `model_provider`, `thread_source`, `source`, `git` (`commit_hash`, `branch`, `repository_url`), `base_instructions.text`. |
+| Model per turn | `turn_context.payload`: `turn_id`, `model`, `effort`, `cwd`, `approval_policy`, `sandbox_policy`, `multi_agent_version`. Also `event_msg` `thread_settings_applied`. |
+| Human-typed prompt | `event_msg` with `payload.type=="user_message"`: `payload.message`. When that returns nothing — seen on `thread_source: "user"` Codex Desktop rollouts at `cli_version 0.149.0-alpha.4.1`, and on subagent rollouts — fall back to `response_item` messages with `payload.role=="user"`, text in `payload.content[0].text`. `role:"developer"` messages are injected boilerplate, not typed, and so is any fallback text that begins with a tag such as `<subagent_notification>`, `<environment_context>`, `<skill>` or `<recommended_plugins>`. On a subagent rollout the fallback text is the parent agent's dispatch prompt, not your human partner's. |
+| Assistant text | `event_msg` `agent_message` (`payload.message`, `payload.phase`) or `response_item` `message` with `role:"assistant"`. |
+| Tool calls | `response_item` with `payload.type` `function_call` (`name`, `arguments`, `call_id`) or `custom_tool_call` (`name`, `input`, `call_id`); outputs are `function_call_output` / `custom_tool_call_output` matched by `call_id`. Also `event_msg` `patch_apply_end` (`success`, `changes`), `web_search_end`, `mcp_tool_call_end` (`invocation.server`, `invocation.tool`). |
+| Turn timing | `event_msg` `task_started` (`turn_id`, `started_at`, `model_context_window`) and `task_complete` (`duration_ms`, `time_to_first_token_ms`, `last_agent_message`); `turn_aborted` (`reason`, `duration_ms`). |
+| Tokens | `event_msg` `token_count`: `payload.info.total_token_usage` (cumulative; keys include `input_tokens`, `cached_input_tokens`, `output_tokens`) and `payload.rate_limits`. |
+| Compaction | a `compacted` line (`window_id`, `previous_window_id`, `replacement_history`) and an `event_msg` `context_compacted`. |
+| Subagents | `event_msg` `sub_agent_activity` (`agent_thread_id`, `agent_path`, `kind`); `response_item` `agent_message` with `author`/`recipient`; the child's own rollout file (see Where). |
+| Skill use | No attribution field. Look for `SKILL.md` in `function_call.arguments` / `custom_tool_call.input` and in `world_state`/`session_meta` instruction text. |
+| Reasoning | `response_item` `reasoning` (`summary[].text`; `encrypted_content` is opaque). |
+
+## Safe extraction
+
+Rollouts reach hundreds of megabytes; `compacted` lines embed whole
+histories. Never print a whole line. Check size first:
+
+```bash
+F=~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-....jsonl
+wc -lc "$F"
+awk '{ if (length($0) > 100000) print NR, length($0) }' "$F"
+```
+
+With `jq`:
+
+```bash
+head -1 "$F" | jq '.payload | {id, cwd, originator, cli_version, model_provider, thread_source, git}'   # identity
+jq -r '.type + "/" + (.payload.type // "")' "$F" | sort | uniq -c                                       # census
+jq -r 'select(.type=="event_msg" and .payload.type=="user_message") | "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\(.payload.message[0:160])"' "$F"   # human prompts
+jq -r 'select(.type=="response_item" and .payload.type=="message" and .payload.role=="user")
+       | "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\((.payload.content[0].text // "")[0:160])"' "$F"   # human prompts, fallback when the line above returns nothing; skip rows whose text starts with a `<tag>`
+jq -r 'select(.type=="turn_context") | "\(.timestamp)\t\(.payload.model)\t\(.payload.effort)"' "$F"    # model per turn
+jq -c 'select(.type=="response_item" and (.payload.type=="function_call" or .payload.type=="custom_tool_call"))
+       | {line:input_line_number, name:.payload.name, args:((.payload.arguments // .payload.input)|tostring|.[0:120])}' "$F"   # tool calls
+jq -c 'select(.payload.type=="task_complete" or .payload.type=="turn_aborted") | {ts:.timestamp, type:.payload.type, ms:.payload.duration_ms}' "$F"   # turn timing
+jq -c 'select(.payload.type=="token_count") | {ts:.timestamp, t:.payload.info.total_token_usage}' "$F"   # tokens (cumulative)
+grep -n '"type":"compacted"\|"context_compacted"' "$F" | cut -d: -f1       # compaction line numbers
+grep -n 'SKILL\.md' "$F" | cut -d: -f1                                    # skill-read line numbers
+sed -n '123p' "$F" | jq -c '{ts:.timestamp, type, p:(.payload|tostring|.[0:400])}'   # one line, trimmed
+```
+
+Find a thread's subagent rollouts (filenames only, never content):
+
+```bash
+grep -l '"parent_thread_id":"<thread-id>"' ~/.codex/sessions/*/*/*/rollout-*.jsonl
+```
+
+A subagent rollout can carry no `event_msg` `user_message` at all — the
+parent agent's dispatch prompt instead shows up as a `response_item`
+`message` with `role:"user"`. If a `user_message` event is present, it is
+from the parent agent, not your human partner.
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+# Other harnesses: discover, then report what you found
+
+This file is for any harness without a verified reference in this
+directory. You know your own harness better than this file does. Use that
+knowledge, and write down exactly what you found so the report reader can
+judge it.
+
+## Procedure
+
+1. **Ask the harness.** Many harnesses expose a session or history command
+   (`<harness> session list`, `/sessions`, a "resume" picker). Use it to get
+   the session id and, if shown, the file path.
+2. **Look under the harness's config directory** (`~/.<harness>/`,
+   `~/.config/<harness>/`, `~/.local/share/<harness>/`) for `sessions`,
+   `history`, `chats`, `threads`, or `projects` directories holding `.jsonl`
+   or `.json` files.
+3. **Confirm a candidate** by extracting its first human message with a
+   size-safe command (`head -c 2000`, or `jq` on the first record) and
+   matching it to what your human partner remembers. Never print whole
+   lines; treat every candidate like the verified stores: `wc -lc` and a
+   long-line check before anything else.
+4. **Map the fields you need** by reading a handful of records with `jq -c
+   'keys'` or `head -c`: human prompt, assistant text, tool call and result,
+   model, harness version, timestamps, subagent linkage, compaction.
+5. **Record in the case file and the report's coverage notes**: the store
+   path, the layout you inferred, which of the fields above you could and
+   could not find, and your confidence. Field-level claims in the report
+   are marked "inferred from the file, not a documented format".
+6. **If you cannot find the store**, say so and ask your human partner for
+   the path. Do not guess a layout from another harness.
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+# Superpowers session diagnosis bundle
+
+Session: <session-id>
+Harness: <name> <version>    Superpowers: <version> (<sha or "not a checkout">)
+Redaction level: skeleton | evidence | full
+Built: <ISO timestamp>
+
+## What this is
+
+A scrubbed record of a coding-agent session in which superpowers was
+installed and something went wrong, prepared so that an agent or person
+who was not present can decide whether superpowers contributed and, if so,
+what to change. The report inside states what happened with `path:line`
+evidence. By design it contains no diagnosis of superpowers and no proposed
+fix; that is the reader's job.
+
+## Files
+
+- `report.md` — the diagnosis report (problem statement, verdict,
+  environment, sessions, timeline, findings, involvement, coverage notes).
+- `case.md` — the case file the analysts worked from.
+- `environment.json` — machine-readable copy of the environment section.
+- `timeline.md` — the per-turn timeline.
+- `findings/<dimension>.md` — raw analyst findings per dimension.
+- `transcripts/<session-id>.md` — condensed per-turn rendering of each
+  examined session (never the raw JSONL). At *skeleton* level tool-result
+  bodies are replaced by `[tool result: <tool>, <bytes> bytes, exit <code>]`;
+  at *evidence* level bodies are kept only for events cited in findings; at
+  *full* level all bodies are kept.
+- `scrub-log.md` — every placeholder used and its category (never the
+  original value).
+
+## How to read it
+
+Start with `report.md` §1–2, then §7 (involvement) and the evidence lines
+it cites, then the matching turns in `transcripts/`. `path:line` references
+point at the original files on the reporter's machine; the same line
+numbers are preserved in the condensed transcripts as `[L<n>]` markers.
+
+## Redaction
+
+Placeholders look like `<EMAIL-1>`, `<PERSON-2>`, `<SECRET-3>`, `<HOST-4>`,
+`<REPO-5>`, `<ORG-6>`, `<PROPRIETARY-7>`; home paths are rewritten to `~/…`. The same placeholder
+always refers to the same original value within this bundle.
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+# Case: <session-id>
+
+Workspace: ~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/
+Created: <ISO timestamp>
+
+## Problem statement (agreed with your human partner)
+
+<One paragraph. Names the session(s), the turn range if known, what was
+expected, what happened, and the observable that matters: wall-clock,
+tokens, repeated actions, a specific unexpected action.>
+
+Goal is a superpowers bug report: yes | no
+
+## Sessions
+
+| Role | Session id | Absolute path | Lines | Bytes | Longest line (bytes) | First prompt (first 120 chars) | First timestamp |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| main | | | | | | | |
+| subagent | | | | | | | |
+
+Rejected candidates: <id — path — why rejected>, or "none".
+
+Session still running at read time: yes | no (mtime <ISO>, lines <N>)
+
+## Environment
+
+- OS: <name and version>
+- Harness: <name> <version>
+- Models seen: <model id — where (main / subagent id)>
+- Superpowers install root: <path>; version <x.y.z>; git sha <sha or "not a checkout">
+- Skill files read or injected during the session:
+
+| File (relative to install root) | sha1 (current file) | mtime newer than session? |
+|---|---|---|
+
+- Other plugins / extensions / MCP servers configured: <list, or "none found">
+- Instruction files present (paths only): <list>
+
+## Context-safety rules for every reader of these files
+
+- Check `wc -lc` and long lines (`awk '{ if (length($0) > 100000) print NR, length($0) }'`) before reading.
+- Never `cat` or `grep` for content. Line numbers and counts first
+  (`grep -n … | cut -d: -f1`), then small fields from specific lines
+  (`sed -n Np | jq -c '{…}'` or `| cut -c1-500`).
+- Read-only: never modify, move, or delete a session file.
+- In a subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
+
+## Harness reference to use
+
+<references/claude-code-sessions.md | references/codex-sessions.md | references/other-harnesses.md>
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+- [x] I searched existing issues and this is not a duplicate (searched: <query terms>; closest: <#n title, or "none">)
+
+## Environment (required)
+
+| Field | Value |
+|-------|-------|
+| Superpowers version | <version> (<sha or "not a checkout">) |
+| Harness (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) | <harness> |
+| Harness version | <version> |
+| Your model + version | <model ids seen> |
+| All plugins installed | <list> |
+| OS + shell | <os version>, <shell> |
+
+## Is this a Superpowers issue or a platform issue?
+
+- [ ] I confirmed this issue does not occur without Superpowers installed
+
+Not reproduced without superpowers. Evidence for involvement is below;
+the reporter has not established cause.
+
+## What happened?
+
+<Problem statement, then the triage verdict, with `path:line` citations
+rewritten as `transcript line <n>`.>
+
+## Steps to reproduce
+
+1. <first human prompt, scrubbed>
+2. <the turns leading to the problem, one line each>
+3. <the observable>
+
+## Expected behavior
+
+<from the problem statement>
+
+## Actual behavior
+
+<from the triage verdict>
+
+## Debug log or conversation transcript
+
+Session id(s): <ids>. A scrubbed bundle (redaction level: <level>) is
+attached to this issue by the reporter, or available on request.
+Superpowers involvement per the diagnosis report: <possible | likely>, with
+evidence at <transcript lines>. This report does not propose a fix.
+
+---
+Filed with the `diagnosing-superpowers` skill. Model, harness, harness
+version, and installed plugins are listed above.
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+# Session diagnosis: <session-id>
+
+Report path: ~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/report.md
+Written: <ISO timestamp>
+
+## 1. Problem statement (REQUIRED)
+
+<Copied from the case file.>
+
+## 2. Triage verdict (REQUIRED)
+
+<What the evidence shows happened around the reported problem. Prose, with
+`path:line` after every claim. State confidence: high / medium / low, and
+what would raise it. No statement about what superpowers should do.>
+
+## 3. Environment (REQUIRED)
+
+- OS:
+- Harness and version:
+- Models seen:
+- Superpowers install root / version / git sha:
+- Skill files read or injected (sha1 table from the case file):
+- Other plugins, extensions, MCP servers:
+- Instruction files present (paths only):
+
+## 4. Sessions examined (REQUIRED)
+
+| Role | Session id | Absolute path | Lines | Bytes |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+
+Rejected candidates: <id — path — why>, or "none".
+
+## 5. Timeline (REQUIRED)
+
+One row per human-typed prompt. Events column lists skills invoked,
+subagents dispatched, compaction, errors, resumes, aborts.
+
+| Turn | Line | Time | Request (one line) | Events |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+
+## 6. Findings (REQUIRED, one subsection per dimension)
+
+Each finding:
+```
+- finding: <one sentence>
+  evidence: <path:line> — "<short quote>"
+  turns: <first>–<last>
+  confidence: high | medium | low
+```
+A dimension with nothing to report says `none found — checked: <what was checked>`.
+
+### 6.1 Skill timeline
+### 6.2 Plan adherence
+### 6.3 Repeated work
+### 6.4 Stumbles
+### 6.5 Quality evidence
+### 6.6 Request conflicts
+### 6.7 Cost and time
+### 6.8 Other plugins and skills used
+
+## 7. Superpowers involvement (REQUIRED)
+
+not indicated | possible | likely
+
+Evidence lines: <path:line list>. This section states involvement only. It
+does not name a defect and does not propose a change.
+
+## 8. Coverage notes (REQUIRED)
+
+- Not read: <ranges, files, and why>
+- Harness features unavailable: <list or none>
+- Session was in progress at read time: yes/no
+- For your human partner to double-check: <list or none>
+
+## 9. Similar sessions (only when requested)
+
+| Session id | Path | Date | Harness | Matched | Did not match |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Structural checks for skills/diagnosing-superpowers. Behavior is tested by
+# the scenarios in CREATION-LOG.md; this script only checks the things a
+# shell can check: frontmatter, referenced files exist, no local paths or
+# names leaked into shipped files, SKILL.md word budget.
+set -u
+
+SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
+SKILL_DIR="$REPO_ROOT/skills/diagnosing-superpowers"
+SKILL_MD="$SKILL_DIR/SKILL.md"
+WORD_BUDGET=900
+
+PASSES=0
+FAILURES=0
+
+pass() { echo "  [PASS] $1"; PASSES=$((PASSES + 1)); }
+fail() { echo "  [FAIL] $1"; FAILURES=$((FAILURES + 1)); }
+
+echo "diagnosing-superpowers structure"
+
+# --- SKILL.md frontmatter -------------------------------------------------
+if [ -f "$SKILL_MD" ]; then
+  pass "SKILL.md exists"
+  frontmatter="$(awk 'NR==1 && $0!="---"{exit} NR>1 && $0=="---"{exit} NR>1{print}' "$SKILL_MD")"
+  if printf '%s\n' "$frontmatter" | grep -q '^name: diagnosing-superpowers$'; then
+    pass "frontmatter name is diagnosing-superpowers"
+  else
+    fail "frontmatter name is diagnosing-superpowers"
+  fi
+  description="$(printf '%s\n' "$frontmatter" | awk '/^description:/{sub(/^description:[ ]*/,""); print; found=1; next} found && /^[ ]/{print} found && !/^[ ]/{exit}' | tr '\n' ' ')"
+  if printf '%s' "$description" | grep -q '^Use when'; then
+    pass "description starts with 'Use when'"
+  else
+    fail "description starts with 'Use when' (got: ${description:0:60})"
+  fi
+  if [ "${#description}" -le 1024 ]; then
+    pass "description under 1024 characters"
+  else
+    fail "description under 1024 characters (${#description})"
+  fi
+  for banned in "dispatch" "then" "step"; do
+    if printf '%s' "$description" | grep -qiw "$banned"; then
+      fail "description contains workflow word '$banned'"
+    else
+      pass "description avoids workflow word '$banned'"
+    fi
+  done
+
+  # --- word budget --------------------------------------------------------
+  body_words="$(awk 'BEGIN{fm=0} NR==1 && $0=="---"{fm=1; next} fm==1 && $0=="---"{fm=2; next} fm==2{print}' "$SKILL_MD" | wc -w | tr -d ' ')"
+  if [ "$body_words" -le "$WORD_BUDGET" ]; then
+    pass "SKILL.md body within $WORD_BUDGET words ($body_words)"
+  else
+    fail "SKILL.md body within $WORD_BUDGET words ($body_words)"
+  fi
+
+  # --- required sections --------------------------------------------------
+  for heading in "## Hard rules" "## Red Flags"; do
+    if grep -q "^$heading" "$SKILL_MD"; then
+      pass "SKILL.md has section '$heading'"
+    else
+      fail "SKILL.md has section '$heading'"
+    fi
+  done
+
+  # --- every referenced skill file exists --------------------------------
+  while IFS= read -r ref; do
+    if [ -f "$SKILL_DIR/$ref" ]; then
+      pass "referenced file exists: $ref"
+    else
+      fail "referenced file exists: $ref"
+    fi
+  done < <(grep -o '\(references\|prompts\|templates\)/[A-Za-z0-9._-]*\.md' "$SKILL_MD" | sort -u)
+else
+  fail "SKILL.md exists"
+fi
+
+# --- expected files -------------------------------------------------------
+expected_files=(
+  references/claude-code-sessions.md
+  references/codex-sessions.md
+  references/other-harnesses.md
+  prompts/skill-timeline.md
+  prompts/plan-adherence.md
+  prompts/repeated-work.md
+  prompts/stumbles.md
+  prompts/quality-evidence.md
+  prompts/request-conflicts.md
+  prompts/cost-and-time.md
+  prompts/scrub.md
+  prompts/scrub-audit.md
+  prompts/similar-session.md
+  templates/case.md
+  templates/report.md
+  templates/bundle-README.md
+  templates/issue.md
+  CREATION-LOG.md
+)
+for rel in "${expected_files[@]}"; do
+  if [ -f "$SKILL_DIR/$rel" ]; then
+    pass "expected file present: $rel"
+  else
+    fail "expected file present: $rel"
+  fi
+done
+
+# --- no local paths or names in shipped files ----------------------------
+leaks="$(grep -rn -E '/Users/|/home/|jesse' "$SKILL_DIR" "$SCRIPT_DIR" --exclude=test-skill-structure.sh 2>/dev/null || true)"
+if [ -z "$leaks" ]; then
+  pass "no machine-specific paths or names in shipped files (skills + tests)"
+else
+  fail "no machine-specific paths or names in shipped files (skills + tests)"
+  printf '%s\n' "$leaks" | head -10 | sed 's/^/    /'
+fi
+
+# --- "the user" never appears in skill prose -----------------------------
+user_hits="$(grep -rn -i 'the user' "$SKILL_DIR" --include='*.md' 2>/dev/null | grep -v CREATION-LOG.md || true)"
+if [ -z "$user_hits" ]; then
+  pass "skill files say 'your human partner', not 'the user'"
+else
+  fail "skill files say 'your human partner', not 'the user'"
+  printf '%s\n' "$user_hits" | head -10 | sed 's/^/    /'
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "Passed: $PASSES  Failed: $FAILURES"
+[ "$FAILURES" -eq 0 ]
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Jesse Vincent	3d6d5d7115	docs(diagnosing-superpowers): keep fixture paths out of the tracked plan The Local fixtures table carried absolute session-store paths whose project-directory slugs embed the account name and two private repository names. Line 19 of the same file states the rule those rows broke, and the scrubbed CREATION-LOG.md landed in the previous commit for the same reason. The Path column becomes Session id plus Characteristics, which is what an executor on another machine actually needs to pick an equivalent fixture. Subagent count for CC-compact corrected from seven to the 278 the end-to-end run enumerated, and the compaction entries named as the two manual boundaries verified against the file. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 16:16:55 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	751fd239f8	fix(diagnosing-superpowers): human-prompt filters for injected lines and newer Codex rollouts The Claude Code "human prompts" jq command counted harness-injected user-shaped lines as typed. On a real 9,170-line transcript it returned 374 rows, one of them a <task-notification> block. Excluding text that begins with <task-notification>, <command-name>, <local-command-stdout>, <system-reminder>, or "This session is being continued" brings that to 76, which matches the human-turn count a careful analyst arrives at by hand. The same transcript carries six human prompts that never appear as user lines at all: queued_command attachments with origin.kind "human", typed while a turn was already running. Adds a second command for those. Codex: on a thread_source "user" Codex Desktop rollout at cli_version 0.149.0-alpha.4.1 the user_message command returns nothing, and the prompts arrive as response_item messages with role "user". The file already documented that shape for subagent rollouts; it is now general, with the fallback jq and a note that the fallback also carries injected blocks (<subagent_notification>, <environment_context>, <skill>, <recommended_plugins>) that have to be skipped. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 16:13:42 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	ee2869104c	docs(diagnosing-superpowers): ship a scrubbed creation log; full record kept privately The shipped CREATION-LOG.md quoted private repository names, issue and PR numbers in those repos, memory-file names, and verbatim human-prompt text from the fixture sessions. This repo is public. The full 5,972-line record moves out of the tree and stays on the maintainer's machine. What ships is the measurement: the method, the scenarios with fixtures described by characteristic rather than by path, the RED baseline results and the rationalizations the Red Flags table was written from, the per-version table, the micro-tests with per-rep verdicts, the four refactor rounds, a Red Flags provenance list, and the end-to-end run. Also surfaces the reliability finding in a Status block at the top: three runs of scenario 12 on the same fixture and problem statement produced three materially different substantive answers, all of which passed, because the criteria test completeness and citation rather than agreement. The spec now says so under Out of scope for v1, and its report-path typo is fixed. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 16:13:32 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	ee01bd8cf2	docs(diagnosing-superpowers): end-to-end run record and test listing Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 15:49:10 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	e9e056bd01	refactor(diagnosing-superpowers): close the eval with all twelve scenarios clean on the final skill Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 14:27:10 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	eed8807046	refactor(diagnosing-superpowers): record fix round 2 runs and refactor round 4 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 14:02:52 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	62bbf13eb0	refactor(diagnosing-superpowers): let an already-scoped request name the analysis to run Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 13:54:27 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	91cf480ccd	refactor(diagnosing-superpowers): per-rep micro-test verdicts, version-labelled GREEN records, re-run 3/6/10 on final skill Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 13:08:29 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	9e2089b417	refactor(diagnosing-superpowers): record GREEN runs 1-12, micro-tests, and refactor round 1 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 12:10:57 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	7a52d35596	refactor(diagnosing-superpowers): gate steps 2-7 behind intake, make the no-diagnosis rule non-waivable Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 11:52:29 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	8f32d42d2f	feat: add diagnosing-superpowers skill Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 11:43:40 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	ef2cdce841	feat(diagnosing-superpowers): scrub, scrub-audit, and similar-session prompts Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 10:54:57 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	2b538e0314	feat(diagnosing-superpowers): analyst subagent prompts for the seven dimensions Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 10:43:41 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	b306406e98	fix(diagnosing-superpowers): case template table delimiter matches header Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 10:29:32 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	d6d85dcbdf	feat(diagnosing-superpowers): case, report, bundle README, and issue templates Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 10:26:30 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	aad834ae75	test(diagnosing-superpowers): leak grep covers tests directory too Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 10:24:20 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	83269b3086	feat(diagnosing-superpowers): structure test and verified harness session references Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 10:15:15 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	b000813ddc	docs(diagnosing-superpowers): fix redaction note, verdict attribution, rationalization line forms Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 09:57:42 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	e7093897a4	docs(diagnosing-superpowers): isolated re-runs of baseline scenarios 4 and 11 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 09:46:52 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	97679cdcd9	docs(diagnosing-superpowers): scenarios and RED baseline results Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-28 09:32:09 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	bae978edbf	docs: implementation plan for diagnosing-superpowers skill Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-27 21:37:55 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	f52cbe4e82	docs: diagnosing-superpowers spec: cost/time dimension, home workspace, GitHub issue step Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-27 21:26:50 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	cc1e227b3d	docs: align diagnosing-superpowers spec with writing-skills (RED first, form-matched guidance) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-27 16:36:17 -07:00
Jesse Vincent	62d0b2e45d	docs: design spec for diagnosing-superpowers skill Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DyaGKhTXvHNs2JgPhDktz7	2026-08-27 14:31:34 -07:00