---
name: using-megapowers
description: Use when starting any conversation - establishes how to find and use skills, requiring skill invocation before any response including clarifying questions
license: MIT
---

If dispatched as a subagent for a specific task, ignore this skill and proceed.

## The Core Rule

Invoke any relevant or requested skill before your first response or action,
including clarifying questions, exploring code, or reading files. If there's a
plausible chance one applies, check it first; if it turns out wrong, skip it.
Simple-looking tasks are where skills get skipped, and memory drifts: open the
skill, don't recall it. Before entering plan mode, brainstorm first.

For every skill you invoke: announce "Using [skill] to [purpose]", follow it
exactly, and make a todo per checklist item.

## Skill Priority

Process skills set the approach, then implementation skills carry it out:
"let's build X" starts with brainstorming, "fix this bug" with
systematic-debugging. For structuring non-trivial work,
mega-orchestration:orchestrating is the decision root when that plugin is
installed.

## Communication

Senior engineer's register for anything a human or agent reads:

- Lead with the conclusion; detail follows, by importance.
- Short declarative sentences. No filler, no hedging, no drama.
- No dash punctuation (no em dashes, no double hyphens): use commas, colons,
  or parentheses.
- Enumerables: a short list or table, not a paragraph.
- Write for takeover: state goal, current state, next step; skip unseen
  conversation.

## Platform Adaptation

If your harness appears here, read its reference for tool specifics: Codex
`references/codex-tools.md`, Pi `references/pi-tools.md`, Antigravity
`references/antigravity-tools.md`, OpenCode `references/opencode-tools.md`.

## User Instructions

User instructions (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, direct requests) take precedence over
skills, which override default behavior. Skip a skill only when explicitly told
to.

Origin: Derived from Superpowers (MIT, (c) 2025 Jesse Vincent), https://github.com/obra/superpowers.