Community sentiment: positive, with an overhead tradeoff
sentimentWidely respected across Reddit, HN, and X for improving engineering quality; the main criticism is verbosity and token usage.
Skill
using-superpowers
Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before ANY response including clarifying questions
○ declared by the publisher, as-isSafety
Safety · gate= 8ca22db · assessed 2w ago
Anone severity-bearing · 1 informational
Graded from 0 severity-bearing findings on this release.
A gate; it passes or fails, never weighed against price or quality.
Reliability & Quality
n/a
Reliability & Quality= 8ca22db · assessed 2w ago
n/anot yet graded
Rows exist, but none carries a severity; no grade has been earned yet.
Findings with severity, graded on the same letter scale as safety.
Cost
n/a
Cost= 8ca22db · assessed 2w ago
n/anot assessed
Not assessed; no producer has emitted into this category. An absence, not a zero.
Declared external service dependencies. Never a monetary figure.
not assessed
Popularity
27013
Popularity · not a figure= 8ca22db · assessed 2w ago
27013Forks
Read off the linked repository, not off this record. It carries no verdict and enters no grade.
Context read off the linked repository. It enters no ranking and no grade.
Performance tested for◌ not assessed
no controlled task evaluation on this release
Vettd Note· published by Vettd · 2mo ago
One of the most-adopted skill packs for Claude. Aggressive by design; it mandates invoking a skill before any response and overrides “red flag” hesitations.
Best for
large codebases, multi-step engineering work, teams wanting enforced process
Not for
quick fixes, token-sensitive workflows: mandates skill invocation on every response
Re-assessed 2w ago · 6 of 7 categories assessed
Record lookup
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Custody chainSource ↗○ linked, not verified by Vettd
obra ◐obra/superpowers ○version = 8ca22db ◐ sha256:4c77…e512 ◐ signature △ not assessedMIT ○record e50a5ad7-03a1-4011-9ebb-4d277e925f13 · live
Evidence · 6 of 7 categories · 22 signals
Safety● gradedAmost recent 2w ago5 signals
how it was established5 signals · 2 sources · scan
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Skill does not specify a licenseflaggedSKILL.md — Skill manifest does not include a 'license' field. Specifying a license helps users understand usage terms.cisco · scan · 2wInfo
Secrets scan passednothing foundNo secrets or unsafe code patterns were detected.vettd · scan · 2wnothing found
behavioral scan passednothing foundNo prompt-injection or jailbreak signals were detected.vettd · scan · 2wnothing found
External URL scan passednothing foundNo external URLs were found in scanned skill text.vettd · scan · 2wnothing found
Name validation passednothing foundThe declared skill name follows the supported naming rules.vettd · scan · 2wnothing found
Reliability & Quality● gradednot yet gradedmost recent 2w ago7 signals
how it was established7 signals · vettd · scan
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Internal reference resolution completednothing foundAll body-referenced paths under references/, scripts/, and assets/ resolved in the bundle.vettd · scan · 2wnothing found
Checklist patternreadvettd · scan · 2wabsent
Description usage contextreadvettd · scan · 2wpresent
Examplesreadvettd · scan · 2wabsent
Gotchas sectionreadvettd · scan · 2wabsent
Step-by-step workflowreadvettd · scan · 2wabsent
Validation loopreadvettd · scan · 2wabsent
Performance● measured1 measuredmost recent 2w ago2 signals
how it was establishedtiktoken/cl100k_base/skill-md-body · 2 signals · vettd · scan
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Progressive disclosurereadvettd · scan · 2wpresent
Static context tokensmeasuredvettd · scan · 2w705
Cost◌ not assessednot assessed0 signals
how it was establishednot assessed; no producer has emitted into this category
Not assessed; no producer has emitted into cost for this asset. That is different from a check that ran and found nothing, which the record would carry as a row of its own.
Compatibility◌ unjudgednot judgedmost recent 2w ago1 signal
how it was established1 signal · vettd · scan
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Declared environment assumptionsreadvettd · scan · 2w
Popularity◇ context onlynot judgedmost recent today5 signals
how it was establishedgithub-repo-object · 5 signals · github-api · research
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Forksmeasuredgithub-api · research · today27013
Days since last commitmeasuredgithub-api · research · today0 days
Open issuesmeasuredgithub-api · research · today341
Starsmeasuredgithub-api · research · today303142
Watchersmeasuredgithub-api · research · today1097
Characteristics◇ context onlynot judgedmost recent today2 signals
how it was established2 signals · 2 sources · research/scan
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Declared licensereadvettd · scan · 2w
Archivedreadgithub-api · research · todayfalse
Coverage6 of 7 categories assessed · shown
Safety
✓ assessed
Secrets scan passed · behavioral scan passed · External URL scan passed · Name validation passed
Reliability & Quality
✓ assessed
Internal reference resolution completed
Performance
✓ assessed
2 signals recorded
Cost
△ not assessed
no producer has emitted for this category
Compatibility
✓ assessed
1 signal recorded
Popularity
✓ assessed
5 signals recorded
Characteristics
✓ assessed
2 signals recorded
Freshness & re-evaluation
assessed2w ago · Cisco AI Defense · Vettd core● current
source stateThe source matches what was scanned. No changes detected.Up to date
re-check policyre-checked against the upstream source on the scheduler's cadencenext check in 21h
re-run whena new release ships, the upstream source changes, or the scanner ruleset is revisedauto-scheduled
Limitations & open conflicts
limitationCost is not assessed: behaviour there is unmeasured, not clean△ gap
limitationReliability & Quality carries rows but no severity-bearing one: nothing has been graded there△ gap
conflictno two sources report the same quantity on this record
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What record e50a5ad7-03a1-4011-9ebb-4d277e925f13 covers
scannerv11● current
validityassessed 2w ago · Up to date
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Community researchcollected by Vettd · never changes a verdict or a finding
vs agent-skills: process depth over domain breadth
comparisonA lean 13-skill process set anchored by a strong meta-layer, vs agent-skills' 23 domain-specific skills.
Forked into 40+ derivative packs
ecosystemThe meta-skill pattern has been copied widely; superpowers remains the reference implementation the derivatives track.
How this record comparesagainst other published records · full comparison →
Signal kinds
▲ finding: something to act on, carries a severity● measurement: a reproducible quantityƒ estimate: inferred from a sample▪ fact: read directly off the artifact◆ classification: assigned from a taxonomy◌ nothing found: a producer looked and emitted no object◇ context only: described, never graded
Custody marks◐ computed by vettd○ declared by the publisher, as-is△ not assessed: nothing looked