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diagnosing-superpowers

@obra Updated 2026-09-20

Use when a superpowers session went wrong and your human partner wants to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a skill that didn't fire, "it took too long", "why is it so expensive", "what is it doing" — or wants to build a bug report for the superpowers maintainers, for the current session or a past one identified by id or path, on any harness.

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Install

git clone https://github.com/obra/superpowers /tmp/superpowers && ln -s /tmp/superpowers/skills/diagnosing-superpowers ~/.claude/skills/diagnosing-superpowers

From README

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. 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. Locate.