Why does Claude need a skill to use other skills?

AI models can sometimes bypass complex workflows to provide quick answers. This skill acts as a guardrail to prevent that, ensuring thoroughness and discipline in every task.

What are the 'Red Flags' mentioned in the skill?

Red Flags are common internal rationalizations the AI might use to skip a workflow, such as 'This is just a simple question' or 'I need more context first.' The skill helps the AI recognize and ignore these impulses.

What does the Using Superpowers skill do?

It establishes a mandatory protocol for Claude to check for and invoke specialized skills before responding to any prompt, ensuring that best practices are consistently applied.

How does it handle multiple relevant skills?

It provides a priority hierarchy where process-oriented skills (like brainstorming or debugging) are invoked first, followed by implementation-specific skills.

Superpowers: Skill Usage Manager

Name: Superpowers: Skill Usage Manager
Author: jasir

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Productivity & Workflow

Enforces a disciplined protocol for invoking specialized skills before any task execution to ensure consistent AI performance.

About

The Superpowers Skill Usage Manager is a foundational meta-skill for Claude Code designed to eliminate undisciplined AI behavior. It establishes a non-negotiable workflow where Claude must proactively check for and invoke relevant domain-specific skills before providing any response, including clarifying questions. By identifying common rationalizations for skipping workflows and providing a clear decision tree, this skill ensures that specialized best practices, patterns, and checklists are always applied to every task, no matter how small.

Key Features

Anti-rationalization framework to prevent skipped workflows
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Mandatory skill-check protocol for every user interaction
Structured decision tree for skill invocation flow
Priority hierarchy for managing multiple applicable skills
Automated checklist-to-todo-list conversion logic

Use Cases

Standardizing AI behavior across complex engineering projects
Onboarding new developers to a disciplined Claude Code workflow
Ensuring domain-specific best practices are never skipped during quick tasks

About

Key Features

Anti-rationalization framework to prevent skipped workflows
0 GitHub stars
Mandatory skill-check protocol for every user interaction
Structured decision tree for skill invocation flow
Priority hierarchy for managing multiple applicable skills
Automated checklist-to-todo-list conversion logic

Use Cases

Standardizing AI behavior across complex engineering projects
Onboarding new developers to a disciplined Claude Code workflow
Ensuring domain-specific best practices are never skipped during quick tasks