diagnosing-superpowers
by obra (GitHub) in obra/superpowers
What it does
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,
Quoted from the skill's SKILL.md under its MIT license.
Install
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obra/superpowers.git /tmp/superpowers mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/ cp -r /tmp/superpowers/skills/diagnosing-superpowers ~/.claude/skills/diagnosing-superpowers
The command copies the skill from the author's repo. SkillTrove does not host it.
Files
- SKILL.md
- prompts/analyst-common.md
- prompts/cost-and-time.md
- prompts/plan-adherence.md
- prompts/quality-evidence.md
- prompts/repeated-work.md
- prompts/request-conflicts.md
- prompts/scrub-audit.md
- prompts/scrub.md
- prompts/similar-session.md
- prompts/skill-timeline.md
- prompts/stumbles.md
- references/context-safety.md
- references/github-issues.md
- references/redaction-policy.md
- references/session-discovery.md
- templates/bundle-README.md
- templates/case.md
- templates/issue.md
- templates/report.md
Source: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main/skills/diagnosing-superpowers. Checked 2026-10-13.
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