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Drew Ritter
36f3883f4e fix(codex): restore Superpowers after compaction
Codex re-fires SessionStart with source "compact" after every context
compaction; the summary keeps progress but sheds the bootstrap and any
active skill's instructions — measured July cause of post-compaction
dispatch drift in long SDD runs (with re-injection: 18/18 hook fires,
66/66 post-compaction dispatch tuples correct in a 12.4h stress run).
Codex discovers skills natively at startup, so the hook is silent
there: the compact re-fire is the one unowned lifecycle point.

Adds the plugin-provided hook (hooks-codex.json + session-start-codex,
compact-only, fails open), wires it into the manifest and package,
documents install/trust behavior, updates codex-tools.md with the
re-grounding fallback, and tests the hook lifecycle, manifest, and
archive contents.

Rebuilt from the July codex-spinout-fixes branch, pared to the hook
core: the dispatch-hints layer it used to ride with is superseded by
the merged 2059-2062/2077-2080 stack and is dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 14:55:28 -07:00
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{
"name": "superpowers",
"description": "Core skills library for Claude Code: TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns, and proven techniques",
"version": "6.3.0",
"version": "6.2.0",
"source": "./",
"author": {
"name": "Jesse Vincent",

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{
"name": "superpowers",
"description": "Core skills library for Claude Code: TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns, and proven techniques",
"version": "6.3.0",
"version": "6.2.0",
"author": {
"name": "Jesse Vincent",
"email": "jesse@fsck.com"

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{
"name": "superpowers",
"version": "6.3.0",
"version": "6.2.0",
"description": "An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works: planning, TDD, debugging, and collaboration workflows.",
"author": {
"name": "Jesse Vincent",
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
"workflow"
],
"skills": "./skills/",
"hooks": {},
"hooks": "./hooks/hooks-codex.json",
"interface": {
"displayName": "Superpowers",
"shortDescription": "Planning, TDD, debugging, and delivery workflows for coding agents",

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"name": "superpowers",
"displayName": "Superpowers",
"description": "Core skills library: TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns, and proven techniques",
"version": "6.3.0",
"version": "6.2.0",
"author": {
"name": "Jesse Vincent",
"email": "jesse@fsck.com"

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{
"name": "superpowers",
"version": "6.3.0",
"description": "An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works: planning, TDD, debugging, and collaboration workflows.",
"author": {
"name": "Jesse Vincent",
"email": "jesse@fsck.com"
},
"homepage": "https://github.com/obra/superpowers",
"repository": "https://github.com/obra/superpowers",
"license": "MIT",
"keywords": [
"brainstorming",
"subagent-driven-development",
"skills",
"planning",
"tdd",
"debugging",
"code-review",
"workflow"
]
}

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# development (see CLAUDE.md / README.md). It is not part of the published
# plugin, so the whole directory is ignored here.
evals/
# Python
__pycache__/
*.pyc
*.pyo
.pytest_cache/

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import os
import re
from pathlib import Path
BOOTSTRAP_MARKER = "superpowers:using-superpowers bootstrap for hermes"
def _skills_dir() -> str:
"""Locate the stock skills/ tree for either supported install layout.
- git-clone install (`hermes plugins install obra/superpowers`): the plugin
dir is the repo root, so `.hermes-plugin/` and `skills/` are siblings and
this module resolves `../skills`.
- flattened install (plugin files copied to the plugin dir root): `skills/`
sits next to this module.
Raises loudly when neither matches — a bootstrap that silently skips is how
a broken install masquerades as a working one.
"""
here = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
candidates = (
os.path.realpath(os.path.join(here, "..", "skills")),
os.path.realpath(os.path.join(here, "skills")),
)
for cand in candidates:
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(cand, "using-superpowers", "SKILL.md")):
return cand
raise RuntimeError(
"superpowers plugin: cannot find the skills/ tree "
f"(looked at {candidates}). Reinstall with "
"`hermes plugins install obra/superpowers`."
)
def _strip_frontmatter(content: str) -> str:
match = re.match(r"^---\n[\s\S]*?\n---\n([\s\S]*)$", content)
return (match.group(1) if match else content).strip()
def _build_bootstrap(skills_dir: str) -> str:
with open(
os.path.join(skills_dir, "using-superpowers", "SKILL.md"),
encoding="utf-8",
) as f:
body = _strip_frontmatter(f.read())
tools_path = os.path.join(
skills_dir, "using-superpowers", "references", "hermes-tools.md"
)
with open(tools_path, encoding="utf-8") as f:
tool_mapping = f.read().strip()
return (
f"<EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>\n"
f"{BOOTSTRAP_MARKER}\n\n"
f"You have superpowers.\n\n"
f"The using-superpowers skill content is included below and is already "
f"loaded for this Hermes session. Follow it now. "
f"Do not try to load using-superpowers again.\n\n"
f"{body}\n\n"
f"## Loading Superpowers Skills on Hermes\n\n"
f"Superpowers skills are registered with Hermes' native skill loader: "
f'invoke one with `skill_view("superpowers:skill-name")` '
f'(for example `skill_view("superpowers:brainstorming")`). '
f"If a namespaced lookup returns 'not found', read the skill file "
f"directly instead:\n"
f'`read_file("{skills_dir}/skill-name/SKILL.md")`\n\n'
f"The superpowers skills directory is: `{skills_dir}`\n\n"
f"{tool_mapping}\n"
f"</EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>"
)
def register(ctx):
skills_dir = _skills_dir()
bootstrap = _build_bootstrap(skills_dir)
# Register every stock skill with Hermes' native loader so skill_view can
# load them on demand. Standard markdown; no conversion (plugin guide).
# register_skill requires a pathlib.Path — a str raises AttributeError and
# hermes silently disables the whole plugin (verified 2026-07-23).
for name in sorted(os.listdir(skills_dir)):
skill_md = os.path.join(skills_dir, name, "SKILL.md")
if os.path.isfile(skill_md):
ctx.register_skill(name, Path(skill_md))
# pre_llm_call returning {"context": ...} is the documented injection path
# (on_session_start return values are ignored, and ctx.inject_message
# refuses from that hook — verified empirically 2026-07-23). The context is
# appended to the first turn's user message.
def pre_llm_call(
session_id=None,
user_message=None,
conversation_history=None,
is_first_turn=None,
model=None,
platform=None,
**kwargs,
):
if is_first_turn:
return {"context": bootstrap}
return None
ctx.register_hook("pre_llm_call", pre_llm_call)

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name: superpowers
version: 6.3.0
description: Superpowers skills and workflow bootstrap for Hermes Agent
author: obra
provides_hooks:
- pre_llm_call

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{
"name": "superpowers",
"version": "6.3.0",
"version": "6.2.0",
"description": "An agentic skills framework and software development methodology.",
"author": {
"name": "Jesse Vincent",

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{
"files": [
{ "path": "package.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".claude-plugin/plugin.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".cursor-plugin/plugin.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".codex-plugin/plugin.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".devin-plugin/plugin.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".kimi-plugin/plugin.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".claude-plugin/marketplace.json", "field": "plugins.0.version" },
{ "path": "gemini-extension.json", "field": "version" }

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Superpowers is a complete software development methodology for your coding agents, built on top of a set of composable skills and some initial instructions that make sure your agent uses them.
## Table of Contents
- [How it works](#how-it-works)
- [Commercial Services](#commercial-services)
- [Getting Started](#installation)
- [Claude Code](#claude-code)
- [Antigravity](#antigravity)
- [Codex App](#codex-app)
- [Codex CLI](#codex-cli)
- [Cursor](#cursor)
- [Devin CLI](#devin-cli)
- [Factory Droid](#factory-droid)
- [Gemini CLI](#gemini-cli)
- [GitHub Copilot CLI](#github-copilot-cli)
- [Grok Build CLI](#grok-build-cli)
- [Kimi Code](#kimi-code)
- [OpenCode](#opencode)
- [Pi](#pi)
- [Hermes Agent](#hermes-agent)
- [The Basic Workflow](#the-basic-workflow)
- [Community](#community)
- [What's Inside](#whats-inside)
- [Philosophy](#philosophy)
- [Contributing](#contributing)
- [Updating](#updating)
- [License](#license)
- [Visual companion telemetry](#visual-companion-telemetry)
## Quickstart
Give your agent Superpowers: [Claude Code](#claude-code), [Antigravity](#antigravity), [Codex App](#codex-app), [Codex CLI](#codex-cli), [Cursor](#cursor), [Factory Droid](#factory-droid), [Gemini CLI](#gemini-cli), [GitHub Copilot CLI](#github-copilot-cli), [Kimi Code](#kimi-code), [OpenCode](#opencode), [Pi](#pi).
## How it works
@@ -115,6 +92,22 @@ Superpowers is available via the [official Codex plugin marketplace](https://git
- Select `Install Plugin`.
#### Codex: compaction re-injection hook
Codex compacts long sessions, replacing the transcript with a summary that
drops Superpowers' skill instructions mid-run — long autonomous workflows
(like subagent-driven-development) then drift back to harness defaults.
Claude Code re-injects the bootstrap after every compaction; the plugin ships
a SessionStart hook (`hooks/hooks-codex.json`) that restores the same
behavior on Codex (0.145+). It fires only on post-compaction re-starts
(`source: "compact"`) and is silent at normal session start.
The hook installs with the plugin — no configuration needed. Codex asks you
to review and trust it once, the first time it loads after install or update.
Headless automation (CI, eval harnesses) must pass
`--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust` instead, because untrusted hooks are
skipped silently.
### Cursor
- In Cursor Agent chat, install from marketplace:
@@ -125,20 +118,6 @@ Superpowers is available via the [official Codex plugin marketplace](https://git
- Or search for "superpowers" in the plugin marketplace.
### Devin CLI
- Install the plugin from this repository:
```bash
devin plugins install obra/superpowers
```
- Update to the latest version with:
```bash
devin plugins update superpowers
```
### Factory Droid
- Register the marketplace:
@@ -181,22 +160,6 @@ Superpowers is available via the [official Codex plugin marketplace](https://git
copilot plugin install superpowers@superpowers-marketplace
```
### Grok Build CLI
Superpowers is available via the [official Grok plugin marketplace](https://github.com/xai-org/plugin-marketplace).
- Install the plugin from xAI's official marketplace:
```bash
grok plugin install superpowers@xai-official --trust
```
- Or open the marketplace in the TUI, search for Superpowers, and install it:
```text
/marketplace
```
### Kimi Code
Superpowers is available in Kimi Code's plugin marketplace.
@@ -246,18 +209,6 @@ pi -e /path/to/superpowers
The Pi package loads the Superpowers skills and a small extension that injects the `using-superpowers` bootstrap at session startup and again after compaction. Pi has native skills, so no compatibility `Skill` tool is required. Subagent and task-list tools remain optional Pi companion packages.
### Hermes Agent
Install Superpowers as a Hermes plugin from this repository:
```bash
hermes plugins install obra/superpowers --enable
```
Restart any active Hermes sessions after installing. Note: Hermes has no
post-compaction hook, so a very long session that compacts over its first
turn loses the bootstrap — start a fresh session if skills stop triggering.
## The Basic Workflow
1. **brainstorming** - Activates before writing code. Refines rough ideas through questions, explores alternatives, presents design in sections for validation. Saves design document.
@@ -276,14 +227,6 @@ turn loses the bootstrap — start a fresh session if skills stop triggering.
**The agent checks for relevant skills before any task.** Mandatory workflows, not suggestions.
## Community
Superpowers is built by [Jesse Vincent](https://blog.fsck.com) and the rest of the folks at [Prime Radiant](https://primeradiant.com).
- **Discord**: [Join us](https://discord.gg/35wsABTejz) for community support, questions, and sharing what you're building with Superpowers
- **Issues**: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/issues
- **Release announcements**: [Sign up](https://primeradiant.com/superpowers/) to get notified about new versions
## What's Inside
### Skills Library
@@ -294,7 +237,6 @@ Superpowers is built by [Jesse Vincent](https://blog.fsck.com) and the rest of t
**Debugging**
- **systematic-debugging** - 4-phase root cause process (includes root-cause-tracing, defense-in-depth, condition-based-waiting techniques)
- **verification-before-completion** - Ensure it's actually fixed
- **diagnosing-superpowers** - Work out what went wrong in a session, with evidence; export a scrubbed bundle or file an issue
**Collaboration**
- **brainstorming** - Socratic design refinement
@@ -345,3 +287,11 @@ MIT License - see LICENSE file for details
## Visual companion telemetry
Because skills and plugins don't provide any feedback to creators, we have no idea how many of you are using Superpowers. By default, the Prime Radiant logo on brainstorming's optional visual companion feature is loaded from our website. It includes the version of Superpowers in use. It does not include any details about your project, prompt, or coding agent. We don't see your clicks or anything about what you're building. This helps us have a rough idea of how many folks are using Superpowers and which version of Superpowers they're using. It's 100% optional. To disable this, set the environment variable `SUPERPOWERS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY` to any true value. Superpowers also honors Claude Code's `DISABLE_TELEMETRY` and `CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC` opt-outs.
## Community
Superpowers is built by [Jesse Vincent](https://blog.fsck.com) and the rest of the folks at [Prime Radiant](https://primeradiant.com).
- **Discord**: [Join us](https://discord.gg/35wsABTejz) for community support, questions, and sharing what you're building with Superpowers
- **Issues**: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/issues
- **Release announcements**: [Sign up](https://primeradiant.com/superpowers/) to get notified about new versions

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# Superpowers Release Notes
## v6.3.0 (2026-08-12)
### Harness Support
- **Devin CLI**: `devin plugins install obra/superpowers` now works, and skills auto-trigger at session start. (#1995)
- **Hermes Agent**: install from a git clone; skills register with Hermes' native loader and the bootstrap loads on the first turn. (#1922, #2025)
- **Grok Build CLI** added to the install docs. (#1919)
### Brainstorming
- **Ceremony now scales to the task.** Requests are classified as spike, bounded, or architectural; small tasks skip the two-document ritual. Every path still stops for your approval before implementation. (#2063)
### Subagent-Driven Development
- **Controllers no longer stall on plan conflicts.** Non-catastrophic conflicts and ambiguities get a recorded ruling and work continues; only destructive or irreversible actions still stop for a human. One donated session had sat blocked for almost nine hours on a question the controller could have decided. (#2077)
- **The pre-dispatch conflict scan records its checks in the ledger** instead of just asserting the plan is clean. (#2080)
- **Small same-shape tasks batch into one dispatch**, cutting subagent cost sharply on micro-task plans; batch reviews verify every file in the brief made it into the diff. (#2078)
- **Implementers and reviewers may not spawn their own subagents**, which was producing duplicate reviews. (#2059)
- **Plans carry a `Spec:` pointer** and SDD reads the spec at setup, so plan conflicts get resolved against the design instead of guessed at. (#2086)
- Reviewers re-read evidence they find illegible instead of re-running the test suite (#2089), and circuit-breaker rulings now show up in the Finish report.
### Codex
- Subagent waits are event-driven instead of poll-heavy, spawns pin model and reasoning effort explicitly, and the multi-agent reference is corrected against Codex source. (#2060, #2061, #2062)
### Finishing a Development Branch
- **Worktree removal no longer destroys untracked files.** When `git worktree remove` refuses because the tree holds uncommitted work, the skill stops, names the files, and asks — instead of reaching for `--force`. (#2016, #1223, #2024)
### Fixes
- `render-graphs.js` in writing-skills works on Windows.
- Corrected Copilot CLI backgrounding guidance for Windows. (#1929, #2006)
- `bump-version.sh` covers the Hermes manifest.
### Documentation
- README: added a table of contents and reorganized Getting Started.
## v6.2.0 (2026-07-23)
### Subagent-Driven Development

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- Manifests: `.cursor-plugin/plugin.json` is the Shape A manifest example that
points the harness at `./skills/` and the right `hooks-*.json`. Claude Code's
`.claude-plugin/plugin.json` sets neither field — it auto-discovers `skills/`
and `hooks/hooks.json` by convention. Do **not** copy Codex's
`.codex-plugin/plugin.json` for Shape A: it declares an empty `hooks` object
specifically to suppress Codex's `hooks/hooks.json` auto-discovery, because
Codex surfaces skills natively and runs no session-start hook.
and `hooks/hooks.json` by convention. Codex's `.codex-plugin/plugin.json`
points `hooks` at `./hooks/hooks-codex.json` — a compaction-only hook, not a
bootstrap injector: Codex surfaces skills natively at session start, so its
hook fires only on post-compaction re-starts. The explicit pointer also
suppresses Codex's `hooks/hooks.json` auto-discovery fallback, which would
otherwise run the Claude Code hook.
> **A hook *system* is not a session-start *event*.** A harness can have a
> `hooks.json` mechanism — and even contain the literal string `SessionStart` in
@@ -785,7 +787,7 @@ Use this as the live index; when in doubt, read the files, not this table.
| Harness | Entry point | Bootstrap mechanism | Tool mapping | Tests | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` + `hooks/hooks.json` | shell hook → `hooks/session-start` (`hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext`) | native `Skill` tool; no adapter file needed | `tests/hooks/` | marketplace |
| Codex | `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` (declares empty `hooks`) | native skill discovery (no session-start hook) | `references/codex-tools.md` | `tests/codex/`, `tests/codex-plugin-sync/` | fork sync (`scripts/sync-to-codex-plugin.sh`) |
| Codex | `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` + `hooks/hooks-codex.json` | native skill discovery at startup; shell hook → `hooks/session-start-codex` re-injects after compaction only | `references/codex-tools.md` | `tests/codex/`, `tests/codex-plugin-sync/` | fork sync (`scripts/sync-to-codex-plugin.sh`) |
| Cursor | `.cursor-plugin/plugin.json` + `hooks/hooks-cursor.json` | shell hook → `hooks/session-start` (`additional_context`) | none needed (Claude Codecompatible tool surface) | `tests/hooks/` | hand-authored |
| Copilot CLI | (shares Claude Code hook path; `COPILOT_CLI` env) | shell hook → `hooks/session-start` (`additionalContext`) | none needed (Claude Codecompatible tool surface) | `tests/hooks/` | — |
| Gemini CLI | `gemini-extension.json` + `GEMINI.md` | instructions file `@`-includes bootstrap + mapping | `references/gemini-tools.md` | — | `gemini extensions install` |

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# Hermes Version-Bump Wiring Implementation Plan
> **For agentic workers:** REQUIRED SUB-SKILL: Use superpowers:subagent-driven-development (recommended) or superpowers:executing-plans to implement this plan task-by-task. Steps use checkbox (`- [ ]`) syntax for tracking.
**Goal:** Keep the Hermes YAML manifest version synchronized with every other declared release manifest.
**Spec:** `docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-05-hermes-version-bump-wiring-design.md`
**Architecture:** Extend the existing release script with a small extension-based dispatcher: JSON continues through `jq`, while `.yaml` uses Mike Farah `yq` v4. Before the mutating bump loop, read every present manifest through that dispatcher so deterministic format or field failures occur before the first write.
**Tech Stack:** Bash 3.2-compatible shell, `jq`, Mike Farah `yq` v4, existing shell-lint tooling.
## Global Constraints
- Support only `.json` and `.yaml`; `.yml` and other extensions remain unsupported.
- YAML fields are present top-level strings; nested YAML fields are out of scope.
- Pass the YAML field and new value through environment data, never interpolate either into a `yq` expression.
- Keep `yq` confined to maintainer release tooling; do not add a plugin runtime dependency.
- Preserve the existing missing-file behavior: `--check` reports missing files and a bump skips them.
- Preflight only the mutating bump path; do not add rollback or transactional writes.
- Do not change audit status behavior, version validation, or the existing JSON field-expression implementation.
---
## File Map
- Create: `tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh`
- Exercise the real script in temporary JSON/YAML fixtures and check the real registry.
- Modify: `scripts/bump-version.sh`
- Add YAML read/write helpers, format dispatch, and bump-only read preflight.
- Modify: `.version-bump.json`
- Register `.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml` at top-level field `version`.
### Task 1: Wire Hermes Into The Existing Version-Bump Script
**Files:**
- Create: `tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh`
- Modify: `scripts/bump-version.sh`
- Modify: `.version-bump.json`
**Interfaces:**
- Consumes: `.version-bump.json` records shaped as `{ "path": string, "field": string }`.
- Produces: `read_manifest_field FILE FIELD`, `write_manifest_field FILE FIELD VALUE`, and `preflight_manifests` Bash helpers.
- [ ] **Step 1: Fetch the current development base**
Run:
```bash
git fetch origin dev
```
Expected: command exits 0 and refreshes `origin/dev`.
- [ ] **Step 2: Rebase the task branch**
Run:
```bash
git rebase origin/dev
```
Expected: command exits 0, and `git status --short --branch` no longer reports the branch behind `origin/dev`.
- [ ] **Step 3: Add the initial failing behavioral test**
Create `tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh` with the happy-path fixture and real registry assertion:
```bash
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
SCRIPT_SOURCE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/bump-version.sh"
TEST_ROOT="$(mktemp -d)"
cleanup() {
rm -rf "$TEST_ROOT"
}
trap cleanup EXIT
fail() {
echo "FAIL: $*" >&2
exit 1
}
make_fixture() {
local repo="$1"
local yaml_body="$2"
mkdir -p "$repo/scripts" "$repo/.hermes-plugin"
cp "$SCRIPT_SOURCE" "$repo/scripts/bump-version.sh"
cat >"$repo/.version-bump.json" <<'JSON'
{
"files": [
{ "path": "package.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml", "field": "version" }
],
"audit": { "exclude": [] }
}
JSON
cat >"$repo/package.json" <<'JSON'
{
"name": "fixture",
"version": "1.2.3"
}
JSON
printf '%s\n' "$yaml_body" >"$repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml"
}
happy_repo="$TEST_ROOT/happy"
make_fixture "$happy_repo" $'name: superpowers\nversion: 1.2.3'
/bin/bash "$happy_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" --check >"$TEST_ROOT/check.out"
/bin/bash "$happy_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" --audit >"$TEST_ROOT/audit.out"
/bin/bash "$happy_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" 2.3.4 >"$TEST_ROOT/bump.out"
[[ "$(jq -r '.version' "$happy_repo/package.json")" == "2.3.4" ]] \
|| fail "JSON manifest was not bumped"
[[ "$(yq -r '.version' "$happy_repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml")" == "2.3.4" ]] \
|| fail "YAML manifest was not bumped"
jq -e '
any(.files[];
.path == ".hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml" and .field == "version")
' "$REPO_ROOT/.version-bump.json" >/dev/null \
|| fail "Hermes manifest is not registered"
echo "Version-bump tests passed"
```
- [ ] **Step 4: Run the test to verify RED**
Run:
```bash
/bin/bash tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh
```
Expected: FAIL before `Version-bump tests passed`; the current JSON-only reader cannot process the YAML fixture.
- [ ] **Step 5: Add minimal YAML dispatch and register Hermes**
In `scripts/bump-version.sh`, add these helpers after `write_json_field`:
```bash
require_tool() {
command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "error: required tool '$1' is not on PATH" >&2
return 1
}
}
read_yaml_field() {
local file="$1" field="$2"
require_tool yq || return 1
FIELD="$field" yq -er '.[strenv(FIELD)] | select(tag == "!!str")' "$file"
}
write_yaml_field() {
local file="$1" field="$2" value="$3"
FIELD="$field" VALUE="$value" \
yq -i '.[strenv(FIELD)] = strenv(VALUE)' "$file"
}
read_manifest_field() {
local file="$1"
case "$file" in
*.json) read_json_field "$@" ;;
*.yaml) read_yaml_field "$@" ;;
*)
echo "error: unsupported manifest format: $file" >&2
return 1
;;
esac
}
write_manifest_field() {
local file="$1"
case "$file" in
*.json) write_json_field "$@" ;;
*.yaml) write_yaml_field "$@" ;;
*)
echo "error: unsupported manifest format: $file" >&2
return 1
;;
esac
}
```
Replace the three command-path calls to `read_json_field` with `read_manifest_field`, and replace the bump-path call to `write_json_field` with `write_manifest_field`.
Add this exact entry to `.version-bump.json` immediately after `package.json`:
```json
{ "path": ".hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml", "field": "version" },
```
- [ ] **Step 6: Run the initial test to verify GREEN**
Run:
```bash
/bin/bash tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh
```
Expected: PASS with `Version-bump tests passed`.
- [ ] **Step 7: Add the failing no-partial-write regression**
Insert this block before the final success message in `tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh`:
```bash
invalid_repo="$TEST_ROOT/invalid"
make_fixture "$invalid_repo" $'name: superpowers\nversion: 123'
cp "$invalid_repo/package.json" "$TEST_ROOT/package.before"
cp "$invalid_repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml" "$TEST_ROOT/plugin.before"
if /bin/bash "$invalid_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" 2.3.4 \
>"$TEST_ROOT/invalid.out" 2>&1; then
fail "bump accepted a non-string YAML version"
fi
cmp -s "$TEST_ROOT/package.before" "$invalid_repo/package.json" \
|| fail "JSON manifest changed before YAML validation failed"
cmp -s "$TEST_ROOT/plugin.before" "$invalid_repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml" \
|| fail "invalid YAML manifest changed"
```
- [ ] **Step 8: Run the regression to verify RED**
Run:
```bash
/bin/bash tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh
```
Expected: FAIL with `JSON manifest changed before YAML validation failed`; without preflight, the JSON manifest is written before the later YAML reader rejects its non-string version.
- [ ] **Step 9: Add the bump-only preflight**
Add this helper after `declared_files` in `scripts/bump-version.sh`:
```bash
preflight_manifests() {
local path field fullpath
require_tool jq || return 1
while IFS=$'\t' read -r path field; do
fullpath="$REPO_ROOT/$path"
[[ -f "$fullpath" ]] || continue
if ! read_manifest_field "$fullpath" "$field" >/dev/null; then
echo "error: cannot read declared manifest: $path ($field)" >&2
return 1
fi
done < <(declared_files)
}
```
Call it in `cmd_bump` after version-format validation and before the first bump output or write:
```bash
preflight_manifests
echo "Bumping all declared files to $new_version..."
```
- [ ] **Step 10: Run focused verification**
Run:
```bash
/bin/bash tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh
scripts/lint-shell.sh scripts/bump-version.sh tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh
scripts/bump-version.sh --check
git diff --check
```
Expected:
- The behavioral test prints `Version-bump tests passed`.
- Shell lint reports both scripts with no errors.
- `--check` lists eight declared manifests, including `.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml`, all at `6.2.0`.
- `git diff --check` prints nothing.
- [ ] **Step 11: Review and commit the implementation**
Run:
```bash
git status --short
git diff -- .version-bump.json scripts/bump-version.sh tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh
git add .version-bump.json scripts/bump-version.sh tests/version-bump/test-bump-version.sh
git commit \
-m "fix(release): wire Hermes into version bumps" \
-m "Register the Hermes YAML manifest alongside the existing JSON manifests. Route manifest reads and writes by extension through jq or Mike Farah yq v4, with field names and values passed as data." \
-m "Preflight every present manifest before the mutating bump loop so a deterministic YAML read failure cannot leave earlier JSON manifests partially updated. Cover check, audit, bump, registry wiring, and byte-for-byte no-partial-write behavior with one focused fixture test."
```
Expected: the commit succeeds with only the three implementation paths staged.

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# Codex Efficiency Fixes — Design
Date: 2026-07-30
Status: approved by Jesse (in-session)
Branch: `codex-efficiency-fixes` off `dev`
## Sources
- Eval campaign closeout: `superpowers-autoresearch/reports/2026-07-codex-efficiency-campaign.md`
(treatment table §4; every treatment below has a scorer and a measured
`dev` baseline).
- Codex source recon: `superpowers-autoresearch/docs/2026-07-29-codex-multiagent-v2-capabilities.md`
(file:line citations against the Codex CLI source; grounds T2, T3, T5).
- Published experiment write-ups: `superpowers-evals/docs/experiments/`.
- Drew's spinout stack (PRs #2036, #2035) is **evidence, not adopted text**:
Jesse wants to dig into those fixes in more detail before adopting any
of them; they inform the problem statements only.
## Goal
Ship the five evidence-strong treatments from the codex-efficiency eval
campaign as superpowers skill/doc changes, each graded against its
pre-registered criterion by the campaign's scorers before its PR is cut.
Phase 2 (everything else in the closeout treatment table) follows, each
item gated on new baseline work first.
## Scope decisions (settled with Jesse)
- **Phase 1 = the evidence-strong five** (T1T5 below). Phase 2 items
each need a failing baseline before any fix ships (discrimination
rule: inconclusive-by-zero is a stop).
- **One branch, PR per treatment.** Development and batteries happen on
`codex-efficiency-fixes`; when a treatment beats its criterion, it is
cut into its own PR against `dev` with its eval evidence. No merge
without Jesse's per-PR approval.
- **T4 ships cross-harness with a global regression battery** (Claude
Code, Codex, Gemini), variant C shape: ceremony scales, approval never
does.
## The five treatments
### T1. SDD worker-review prohibition
**Evidence:** 9/9 depth-2 spawns across 4 corpora were implementer-issued
reviewers; all 9 were same-task duplicates of the review the controller
dispatches anyway. The dispatch contract never says review is not the
worker's job; "self-review" in the implementer prompt gets reified into a
reviewer subagent on harnesses where children can spawn (Codex).
**Changes:**
- `skills/subagent-driven-development/implementer-prompt.md`: an explicit
"You do not dispatch subagents" clause — self-review means reading your
own diff; the controller owns all review dispatch; a reviewer you spawn
duplicates a review the process already provides.
- `skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md`: one dispatch-contract
line in the task loop, plus a Red Flags row: "An independent review
would strengthen my report" → review is the controller's next step;
your reviewer is a duplicate seat.
- Harness-agnostic wording (no-op where children cannot spawn).
**Graded by:** `score_e6.py` (depth-2 spawns by spawner role, duplicate
review families); `score_e5.py` for the same-scope variant.
**Baseline:** 9/9 worker-issued, 0 counter-examples.
**Criterion:** 0 worker-issued depth-2 spawns AND review coverage
preserved (every task still gets exactly one controller-dispatched task
review).
### T2. Event-driven waiting
**Evidence:** 6078% of `wait_agent` calls time out in every corpus
(dev 67.1%, spinout 60.2%). Source recon: V2 waits are event
subscriptions, not polls — one long wait has the same wake latency as a
10s poll at ~1/90th the calls; a completed child's FINAL_ANSWER is pushed
into the parent's mailbox and drained into the next model request with no
wait at all.
**Changes** (`skills/using-superpowers/references/codex-tools.md`):
- Never short-timeout poll.
- While local work remains, do not wait — child results arrive with your
next turn via the mailbox.
- When genuinely idle, issue ONE `wait_agent` with a long `timeout_ms`
(900000+; harness max 3600000).
- V2 caveat stated: completion mail carries `trigger_turn=false` and will
not wake an idle controller — that is the one job `wait_agent` has.
**Graded by:** `score_e7.py` (timeout rate, inter-poll cadence,
cache-rebill estimate — the rebill figure stays labeled as an estimate).
**Baseline:** dev 67.1% timeout rate.
**Criterion:** timeout rate < 25% with no loss of task completion.
### T3. codex-tools.md corrections
**Evidence:** five claims in the current guidance are contradicted by the
Codex source (all file:line-cited in the capabilities doc):
1. `close_agent` does not exist in multi-agent V2 (V1-only). V2 LRU-evicts
finished children automatically; not closing costs nothing;
`followup_task` transparently reloads an evicted child.
2. Fix rounds can always resume the implementer via `followup_task`
dev's "if your harness cannot send another message to a spawned agent,
dispatch each fix round as a fresh implementer" branch is dead on V2.
3. Role files (`~/.codex/agents/**.toml`) DO attach to spawns via
`agent_type` on isolated forks (0.145+).
4. Full-history forks accept `model`/`reasoning_effort` overrides; only
`agent_type` is refused. (Isolated forks remain the SDD guidance for
context-hygiene reasons, stated accurately.)
5. Dispatch guidance must never name non-V2 model presets the V2 spawn
allowlist is v2 presets only; others hard-error.
**Changes:** rewrite the multi-agent paragraph of
`skills/using-superpowers/references/codex-tools.md` to be
version-honest (V1 vs V2 behavior labeled where they differ).
**Graded by:** source citation (already verified); no scorer regressions
on the shared battery. `score_e8.py` is retained as a V1/V2 schema
detector, not a hygiene grader no `close_agent` checklist ships.
### T4. Brainstorming three-path router (variant C: approval always)
**Evidence:** micro the current HARD-GATE text pushes a bounded task to
FULL ceremony 5/5, while Z-null (no guidance) and a three-path router
both differentiate 5/5: the absolute wording suppresses discrimination
the model draws natively. FULL battery ceremony volume scales
moderately (16.7 vs 24.0 tool calls, bounded vs arch), but the
two-document ritual (spec file plan file) ran unconditionally in every
rep. The measured waste is the unconditional artifact ritual, not the
approval gate.
**Design (variant C):** three paths scale the ARTIFACT; every path keeps
human approval before implementation:
- **Spike** (feasibility question, explicitly throwaway): present the
question and the intended probe in 23 sentences, get a nod, go. No
docs. Findings return as a recommendation; anything built stays labeled
throwaway.
- **Bounded** (well-scoped change to an existing, understood flow):
present a short design in chat, get approval, implement. No spec file,
no writing-plans invocation.
- **Architectural** (restructures components, new subsystem, public
interface change): the full current flow spec doc, review,
writing-plans.
**Guards (all ship with the router):**
- Classification is said out loud ("this looks bounded, so I'll present a
short design here rather than write a spec") so the human can override.
- When in doubt between two paths, take the heavier one.
- One-way ratchet: hidden complexity discovered mid-path upgrades the
path; never downgrade mid-task.
- New Red Flags rows targeting classification-as-escape-hatch ("I'll call
it bounded to skip the doc").
**Changes** (`skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md`): HARD-GATE keeps "no
implementation before approval" and drops "regardless of perceived
simplicity" as the ceremony driver; anti-pattern section reframed (the
sin is skipping approval, not skipping documents); checklist steps 69
become the architectural path; process-flow graph gains the router; Red
Flags rows added. This is carefully-tuned content the edit follows
writing-skills methodology and ships only with the full eval evidence
below.
**Graded by (three layers):**
1. **Micro** (`ceremony-path-micro.py`, adapted): variant C literal text,
plus adversarially ambiguous briefs the campaign never tested (a task
that pattern-matches bounded but hides a public interface change).
Criteria: spike/bounded/arch differentiate (≥4/5 per cell); ambiguous
briefs escalate to FULL (≥4/5); arch never downgrades (5/5).
2. **Codex ceremony battery:** `cx-ceremony-{spike,bounded,arch}` on the
fix arm, 3 reps each, `score_e4.py` census. Criteria: bounded reps
show an approval turn but zero committed spec files and zero
writing-plans ritual; arch reps keep the full two-doc flow; spike reps
stay minimal.
3. **Global regression battery:** the same three ceremony scenarios on
Claude Code and Gemini (rig work: those scenarios are currently
codex-gated), 3 reps each; plus the triggering acceptance check
("Let's make a react todo list" auto-triggers brainstorming into the
full/architectural path) on all three harnesses.
### T5. Explicit model on child-issued spawns
**Evidence:** root spawns are 100% explicit-model at CLI 0.146 (dev
14/14); the live gap is depth-2 2/2 child-issued spawns omitted
`model`. Source recon: `model` without `reasoning_effort` resets effort
to the MODEL's default, not the parent's.
**Changes** (`skills/using-superpowers/references/codex-tools.md`):
- Every spawn you issue including as a child sets `model` AND
`reasoning_effort`; the effort-reset trap is named.
- Advise `[agents].default_subagent_model` and
`[agents].default_subagent_reasoning_effort` in `~/.codex/config.toml`
as the machine-level backstop for anything that slips through.
**Graded by:** `score_e1.py` (per-spawn explicit-model rate, by depth) on
the shared battery.
**Baseline:** depth-2: 0/2 explicit.
**Criterion:** every spawn at every depth carries explicit model +
effort. Pre-registered caveat: if T1 eliminates depth-2 spawns entirely,
T5 grades as root-spawn regression (hold 100%) plus doc correctness and
is recorded inconclusive-by-zero at depth-2 the config backstop is then
the operative mechanism.
## Grading plan
- **Shared SDD battery** carries T1, T2, T5: `cx-sdd-small`, fix-branch
arm (`/tmp/sp-arm-fix`), 8 reps across both container lanes. Dev
baselines are already measured; no baseline re-runs.
- **T4 batteries** as listed above (micro + codex ceremony + global
regression).
- **Pre-registration:** every battery gets a hypothesis-log entry
(prediction, scorer, criterion) in
`superpowers-autoresearch/logs/2026-07-30-codex-efficiency-fixes.md`
BEFORE it runs. Standing rules carry over: append-only log, manual
inspection of scorer matches on fix-arm runs (non-circular
verification), no raw rollouts committed, correctness rides beside
cost in every verdict.
- **Attribution:** orthogonal scorers on one combined branch; unexpected
regressions bisect by treatment commit.
- **Budget:** shared battery ~$40, codex ceremony ~$40, global
regression ~$4080, micros ~$5 phase 1 $150200 of the ~$850
remaining from the campaign's $1000.
## Process
- Work happens in the `codex-efficiency-fixes` worktree (branched off
`dev`); execution via subagent-driven-development from a written plan.
- Skill-text changes follow writing-skills methodology.
- Scenario/rig changes (un-gating ceremony scenarios for Claude
Code/Gemini, adversarial micro briefs) land in `superpowers-evals`
main, as authorized.
- PR-per-treatment against `dev`, each with its eval evidence and the
standard identification block; merges only on Jesse's per-PR approval.
## Phase 2 queue (baseline-first; not in this plan's tasks)
Each item requires a failing baseline before any fix ships:
1. **Dispatch routing / long-session drift** needs a long-session
elicitation rig (fresh sessions don't reproduce the pathology at CLI
0.146). Drew's stack informs the treatment shape.
2. **Verification leases / evidence receipts** needs the
substring-aware duplicate counter added to `score_e3.py` first
(current baseline 1/23 exact-string pairs is too weak).
3. **Remediation cap** small-n baseline (2/3 reps) needs more reps.
4. **Cross-task-race probe redesign** `score_e5.py`'s probe is
inconclusive-by-zero by design tradeoff; needs a stronger probe.
5. **E5 D4 shell-command parser** fix-review-scope classifier cannot
parse compound commands; scorer work, not skill work.
## Out of scope
- Adopting Drew's spinout stack (#2036/#2035) or its text.
- RoboRev, Codex token telemetry (separate codebases).
- A `close_agent` hygiene checklist (V2 has no such tool closed as
do-not-ship in the campaign).
- Claude Code/Gemini-specific efficiency treatments beyond the T4
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# Hermes Version-Bump Wiring Design
**Date:** 2026-08-05
**Revised:** 2026-08-06
**Status:** Approved
## Goal
Keep `.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml` in lockstep with the repository version by
registering it in `.version-bump.json` and teaching `scripts/bump-version.sh`
to process YAML without implementing a YAML parser in Bash.
## Design
- Add `{ "path": ".hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml", "field": "version" }` to
`.version-bump.json`.
- Route `.json` through the existing `jq` helpers and `.yaml` through Mike
Farah `yq` v4. The YAML key and value are passed as data, not interpolated
into the expression.
- Support only a present top-level YAML string field. Nested fields and `.yml`
are out of scope.
- Route `--check`, `--audit`, and version updates through the same small
read/write dispatcher.
- Before a version bump writes any manifest, run one read-only preflight that
validates the required tools and reads every present declared manifest
through the dispatcher. This prevents a deterministic YAML failure from
occurring after earlier JSON files have already been updated. Missing-file
behavior remains unchanged, and `--help` still works without `jq` or `yq`.
The preflight is the only reliability addition. It does not make the script
transactional or redesign its existing audit and error-status behavior.
## Tests
Three focused behavioral tests run the real script against an isolated
temporary fixture and prove:
- aligned JSON and YAML pass `--check` and `--audit`, and a bump updates both
formats;
- an actual bump with JSON declared first and a later YAML manifest whose
top-level `version` is not a string exits nonzero and leaves every manifest
byte-for-byte unchanged; and
- the real `.version-bump.json` registers the Hermes manifest.
Verification also runs shell lint and `scripts/bump-version.sh --check` against
the repository.
## Non-Goals
- No hand-written YAML parser.
- No `.yml` or nested-YAML support.
- No Hermes runtime changes.
- No rollback framework, general config-schema layer, audit/status refactor, or
exhaustive failure matrix.
- No change to the separate version-validation and JSON-expression issue found
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# Diagnosing Superpowers Sessions — Design
Date: 2026-08-27
Status: approved by Jesse (in-session); spec pending review
Branch: `diagnosing-superpowers` off `dev`
## Goal
A core skill, `diagnosing-superpowers`, that a user invokes when a
superpowers session went wrong. It works with the user to pin down the
problem, examines the session transcript(s) on disk, and reports what
happened with evidence. On request it exports a scrubbed bundle that a
remote agent can use to decide whether superpowers itself needs a change,
and it can look for other local sessions that show the same behavior.
The skill reports; it never diagnoses superpowers. Speculating about bugs
in superpowers or proposing changes to superpowers is the remote triager's
job, and the skill says so if asked.
## Scope decisions (settled with Jesse)
- **Pure prose skill for v1.** No shipped scripts. The model does the work,
using subagents aggressively. Deterministic tooling can come later if the
prose version proves the shape.
- **Harness coverage.** Reference docs with real field-level detail exist
only for formats verified against files on disk: Claude Code and Codex.
Every other harness gets a discovery procedure. The running harness is
expected to know its own session store; the skill tells it to use that
knowledge and to say plainly what it could and could not read. No
invented formats.
- **Problem intake first.** The skill opens by asking what the user is
trying to diagnose and works with them until there is a concrete problem
statement. Sweeps run in service of that statement.
- **Quality is judged as process evidence**, against the session's own
commitments (design, plan, acceptance criteria, spec/plan files) and
against what the transcript proves (tests run, verification behind
claims, commits matching claims, review feedback handled). It is not a
code review of the resulting diff.
- **Redaction level is the user's call.** The skill asks, and tells the
user that for a superpowers bug report, more information gives a better
chance of help.
- **Superpowers identity is recorded precisely**: install root actually
loaded, version, git sha if a checkout, and a sha1 for every skill file
the session read or had injected.
- **Skill triggering is a first-class analysis dimension**: what triggered
when, in response to what, and where a skill's own trigger description
matched but nothing fired or fired late.
## Skill layout
```
skills/diagnosing-superpowers/
SKILL.md
references/
claude-code-sessions.md
codex-sessions.md
other-harnesses.md
prompts/
skill-timeline.md
plan-adherence.md
repeated-work.md
stumbles.md
quality-evidence.md
request-conflicts.md
cost-and-time.md
scrub.md
scrub-audit.md
similar-session.md
templates/
case.md
report.md
bundle-README.md
issue.md
tests/diagnosing-superpowers/
test-skill-structure.sh
```
Same shape as `subagent-driven-development`: a lean SKILL.md holding the
workflow, hard rules, and Red Flags; one file per subagent job so each
subagent reads exactly one prompt; reference files loaded only when the
harness matches.
### SKILL.md frontmatter
```
name: diagnosing-superpowers
description: Use when a superpowers session went wrong and the user wants
to know why — repeated work, ignored plans, stumbles, poor results, a
skill that didn't fire — 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.
```
Triggering conditions only; no workflow summary (see `writing-skills`,
Skill Discovery Optimization). SKILL.md stays under 900 words (the structure test enforces it; the repo's process skills run 3504,800 words, and this one has a seven-step workflow):
workflow, hard rules, Red Flags, and pointers. Everything else lives in
the prompt, reference, and template files.
## Workflow
Each step is a todo item when the skill runs.
### 1. Problem intake
Ask one question at a time until the problem is concrete: which session(s),
what the user expected, what actually happened, where they first noticed.
Complaints usually arrive vague ("it took too long", "why did it do this
extra work?", "why is it so expensive?", "what the hell is it doing?");
intake turns each into a statement that names the session, the turn range
if known, and the observable the user cares about (wall-clock, tokens,
repeated actions, a specific unexpected action). Write the agreed
statement to the case file (below). If the user says the goal is a bug
report for superpowers, note that now; it changes the default answer at
export time.
### 2. Locate
Resolve every session the user named to exact paths on disk.
- **Current session.** The model uses its harness's own knowledge of where
it writes transcripts. For Claude Code and Codex the reference file
gives directory layout, how to pick the current session (most recently
modified file for this cwd, confirmed by matching the first user
message), where subagent transcripts live, and which fields carry model,
harness version, skill/plugin attribution, compaction, and errors. For
any other harness, `other-harnesses.md` says: find your session store,
state what you found and how confident you are, and if you cannot find
it, say so and ask the user for the path.
- **Past session.** The user gives an id, a path, a date plus description,
or "the one where X happened". Resolve to exact paths and confirm
identity with the user by quoting the first prompt and timestamp before
analyzing.
- **Subagents.** Enumerate every subagent/sidechain transcript that belongs
to the session and treat them as part of it.
- **Live sessions.** "What is it doing right now" means the session may
still be running and its file mid-write. Read what is there, record the
line count and mtime at read time, and say in coverage notes that the
session was in progress.
- **Host and superpowers identity.** Record OS and version; harness and
version; every model id seen; the superpowers install root the session
actually loaded (marketplace cache and dev checkout can differ), its
version from the manifest, git sha if it is a checkout; a sha1 of every
skill file the session read or had injected, computed from the file as it
exists now, flagged when the file's mtime is newer than the session
because the hash may not match what the session saw; other plugins,
extensions, and MCP servers configured; instruction files present
(CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, and the like) listed by path only.
- **Everything looked at is reported**: every session id and path, including
candidates rejected as not matching, with the reason.
The workspace is `~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/`
(home directory, so it never lands in a project tree or a commit). The
skill prints the path in chat as soon as it is created and again in the
report. `case.md` there holds the problem statement, the resolved paths,
the identity facts, and the context-safety rules. Every subagent gets its
path.
### 3. Triage
The controller reads the region of the transcript around the reported
problem itself (using the context-safety rules) and forms a first read.
Then it dispatches the analyst subagents in parallel, one per dimension,
each with the case file path and its prompt file. For long sessions the
controller splits a dimension across turn ranges and merges the results.
Subagents return findings in one shape:
```
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <path:line> — "<short quote>"
turns: <first><last>
confidence: high | medium | low
```
Dimensions and what each looks for:
- **Skill timeline.** Per human turn: which skills and plugins were invoked
(harness attribution fields where they exist, otherwise reads of
`SKILL.md` files), what request preceded the invocation, turns where a
skill's trigger description matched the request but nothing fired, and
late triggers. Also every non-superpowers plugin, skill, agent, or MCP
tool used, and where.
- **Plan adherence.** Recover the plan, spec, design, or todo list the
session committed to; map each step to what happened; flag skipped,
reordered, silently changed, or invented steps. Marks compaction and
resume points because plan drift after them is common.
- **Repeated work.** Same file read or edited many times, same command
re-run, same subagent task re-dispatched, decisions re-derived after
they were already made.
- **Stumbles.** Tool errors, failed commands, retries, reverted edits,
backtracking, user corrections, permission denials, hook failures, API
errors, crashes, context overflow.
- **Quality evidence.** Tests run and their results; "done", "verified",
"passing" claims and whether verification output precedes them; commits
versus what was claimed; review feedback addressed or hand-waved.
- **Request conflicts.** Contradictory user instructions across turns,
instructions conflicting with CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, requests the model
was told to ignore. Only human-typed prompts count as user instructions.
- **Cost and time.** Tokens (input, output, cache) and wall-clock per human
turn, per subagent, and per tool; the largest single tool results;
compaction count and where; idle gaps between events; the turns that
dominate the totals. Claude Code carries per-message `usage`; Codex
emits `token_count` events.
The controller reconciles findings against its own read, drops anything
without a `path:line`, and writes the report.
### 4. Report
`~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/report.md`, also shown
in chat. Fixed section order so a remote triager can rely on it:
1. **Problem statement** as agreed at intake.
2. **Triage verdict.** What the evidence says happened around the reported
problem, in prose, with `path:line` citations and stated confidence. No
root-cause claims about superpowers and no recommendations for it.
3. **Environment.** Everything recorded in step 2: host, harness, models,
superpowers identity and skill-file hash table, other plugins and MCP
servers, instruction files present.
4. **Sessions examined.** Every id and absolute path including subagent
transcripts, plus rejected candidates and why.
5. **Timeline.** Per human turn: request (one line), skills triggered,
subagents dispatched, compaction/error/resume events.
6. **Findings.** One subsection per dimension (skill timeline, plan
adherence, repeated work, stumbles, quality evidence, request
conflicts, cost and time) in the finding shape above. Empty dimensions
say "none found" and what was checked.
7. **Superpowers involvement.** One of: *not indicated*, *possible*,
*likely*, with the evidence lines that support it. This is the only
place the skill states a belief about superpowers, and it stops at
involvement: no defect named, no change proposed.
8. **Coverage notes.** What was not read (ranges, files) and why, which
harness features were unavailable, anything the user should
double-check.
Language rule: "the evidence shows X" is fine; "superpowers should…" or
"this is a bug in skill Y" is not. Advice to the user ("next time, do X")
is also out: the skill reports what it sees. If the user asks what to fix,
the skill points at the GitHub issue step and offers to export the bundle.
### 4a. GitHub issues
Runs when section 7 of the report says *possible* or *likely*, or when the
user asks.
1. **Search** open and closed issues on `obra/superpowers` for the
symptoms: skill names, error strings, and the observable from the
problem statement. Use `gh` if it is installed; otherwise the public
search API (`https://api.github.com/search/issues`) via curl;
otherwise give the user a search URL and stop.
2. **Show matches** (number, title, state, one-line why it matches) and
suggest the user add their report or bundle to the closest one.
3. **If nothing matches**, draft an issue from `templates/issue.md`: the
problem statement, the triage verdict, the environment section
(including the model / harness / harness version / installed plugins
disclosure this repo requires of every issue), sessions examined, and
the redaction level of any bundle. Show the exact text; create the
issue only after the user approves it. `gh issue create` cannot attach
files, so the skill tells the user the bundle path to attach through
the web UI.
4. Nothing is posted anywhere without the user approving the exact text.
### 5. Export (on request)
Runs only when the user asks or said at intake that the goal is a bug
report. The bundle is written to
`~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/bundle/` and the
archive next to it.
1. **Ask the redaction level.** Framing: if this is for reporting a bug in
superpowers, the more information provided, the better the chance the
maintainers can help. Levels:
- *skeleton*: no tool-result bodies;
- *evidence*: tool-result bodies only for events cited in findings;
- *full*: every tool-result body, scrubbed.
The skill suggests *evidence* as the default.
2. **Build the bundle** with these files:
- `README.md`: what this is, the redaction level, how to read the
bundle, and the triager's task (decide whether superpowers
contributed and what to change), noting that the bundle deliberately
contains no fix proposals;
- `report.md`, `case.md`, `environment.json`, `timeline.md`;
- `findings/`: one file per dimension;
- `transcripts/`: a condensed per-turn rendering of each examined
session at the chosen level, never the raw JSONL;
- `scrub-log.md`.
3. **Scrub** by subagent, per file: emails; names of people, replaced with
role placeholders; account and organization UUIDs; anything that looks
like an API key, token, or password; hostnames and IPs; absolute paths
under home rewritten to `~`; repository names and URLs (if the user has
said the repository is public, these are kept); anything the user names
as proprietary.
Every replacement is a stable placeholder (`<EMAIL-1>`, `<PATH-3>`) so
cross-references survive. The scrub log lists placeholder → category,
never the original value.
4. **Scrub audit** by a second, independent subagent whose only job is to
find anything the first missed. Repeat scrub and audit until the audit
finds nothing.
5. **User review gate.** Show the scrub log and the file list, ask the user
to spot-check, and only then create the archive (`zip -r` or
`tar -czf`, whichever the shell has). Report the archive path. The skill
never uploads anything anywhere.
### 6. Similar sessions (on request)
1. Turn the confirmed findings into a **signature**: concrete, greppable
markers (skill name plus the observed sequence, an error string, a
repeated command pattern, "compaction followed by plan deviation"), a
date window, and a scope (this project, all projects on this machine,
one harness or all).
2. Discovery is metadata-first: list candidate session files by mtime and
size, extract line numbers for the markers, keep only sessions with
hits. Context-safety rules apply.
3. Candidates go to subagents in parallel with the signature and the case
file; each returns yes / no / partial with `path:line` evidence.
4. Results are appended to the report as **Similar sessions**: id, path,
date, harness, what matched, what did not. Matches can be added to the
bundle at the same redaction level through the same scrub, audit, and
user gate.
Local machine only. The skill never reaches into other people's sessions
or remote stores.
## Hard rules (SKILL.md and every subagent prompt)
- **Context safety.** Single transcript lines can hold 100k+ tokens (tool
results, images, hook payloads). Never `cat` or `grep` a transcript for
content. Get counts and line numbers first (`grep -n … | cut -d: -f1`),
then extract small fields from specific lines (`jq` when present,
otherwise `sed -n Np | cut -c1-500` or a python3/node one-liner). Check
the file size and line count before anything else.
- **Read-only.** Session files are never modified, moved, or deleted.
- **Exact paths to subagents.** "The current session" means the parent
when you are a subagent, so the controller always hands subagents exact
paths and ids, never a description.
- **Human prompts only.** Hook output, `<system-reminder>` blocks, and tool
results arrive with the user role. Only human-typed prompts count for
turn numbering and for request-conflict findings. In a subagent
transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
- **Evidence or nothing.** Every finding cites `path:line`. Findings without
a citation are dropped at reconciliation.
- **No superpowers diagnosis.** The skill describes what happened. It does
not say what is wrong with superpowers or what to change.
- **User gate before export.** No archive is created until the user has
seen the scrub log and file list.
- **User gate before posting.** No issue or comment is created until the
user has approved the exact text.
## Red Flags (SKILL.md table)
These rows are hypotheses from design. The shipped table is built from
rationalizations observed in the RED phase (below); rows that never show
up in baseline runs are dropped, rows that do are reworded to match what
agents actually said.
| Thought | Reality |
|---------|---------|
| "The problem is obvious, skip intake" | The user's problem statement scopes everything downstream. Ask. |
| "I'll just grep the transcript" | One line can be your whole context. Line numbers first, fields second. |
| "This is clearly a bug in skill X" | Not your call. Report the evidence; the triager decides. |
| "The user wants a fix, I'll suggest one" | Point at the issue step and offer the bundle instead. |
| "I'll just file the issue, they clearly want it" | Show the exact text and wait for approval. |
| "I don't need a citation for this one" | No `path:line`, no finding. |
| "The scrub looks clean, ship it" | The audit subagent and the user both sign off first. |
| "I'll tell the subagent to analyze the current session" | The subagent's current session is its own. Pass the path. |
| "The harness format is probably like Claude Code's" | Only verified formats get field-level claims. Discover, then report what you found. |
## Harness reference files
### `references/claude-code-sessions.md`
Verified against files on this machine, Claude Code 2.1.247:
- Store: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>.jsonl` where the slug
is the cwd with `/` replaced by `-`.
- Subagents: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>/subagents/agent-<id>.jsonl`
with a sibling `agent-<id>.meta.json`.
- Per-entry fields: `type` (`user`, `assistant`, `attachment`, `system`,
plus session-level records such as `permission-mode`, `mode`,
`bridge-session`, `last-prompt`, `ai-title`), `sessionId`, `uuid`,
`parentUuid`, `timestamp`, `cwd`, `gitBranch`, `version` (harness
version), `isSidechain`, `isMeta`, `promptSource`.
- Assistant entries: `message.model`, `attributionSkill`,
`attributionPlugin`, `requestId`, `effort`.
- Compaction: `system` entries with `subtype: compact_boundary`.
- Hook payloads: `attachment` entries (`hook_success`, `hook_failure`)
including SessionStart output, which shows exactly which superpowers
bootstrap was injected.
- Plugin registry: `~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json`
(`installPath`, `version`, `gitCommitSha` per plugin). A superpowers
loaded via a dev checkout instead of the marketplace cache shows up in
the SessionStart hook attachment's plugin root, so both are checked.
### `references/codex-sessions.md`
Verified against files on this machine, Codex CLI 0.147.0:
- Store: `~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-<timestamp>-<id>.jsonl`.
- `session_meta` line: `payload.id`, `payload.session_id`,
`payload.parent_thread_id`, `payload.cwd`, `payload.originator`,
`payload.cli_version`, `payload.model_provider`, `payload.source`
(subagent spawn details: `parent_thread_id`, `depth`, `agent_nickname`).
Subagent rollouts are separate files linked by `parent_thread_id`.
- Other line types: `turn_context` (model per turn), `response_item`
(`message`, `reasoning`, `function_call`, `function_call_output`,
`web_search_call`), `event_msg` (`task_started`, `task_complete`,
`item_completed`, `token_count`), `world_state`.
- No skill attribution field. Skill use is inferred from
`function_call` reads of `SKILL.md` paths and from the multi-agent
spawn records.
### `references/other-harnesses.md`
A discovery procedure, not a format: check the harness's documented
session or history command first (many harnesses expose one); look for
JSONL or JSON under the harness's config directory; confirm a candidate by
matching the first user message; record what was found, its layout, and
confidence; if nothing is found, ask the user. Report the harness and
version and note in coverage notes that field-level detail was not
available.
## Guidance form
Per `writing-skills`, the form must match the failure:
| Part of the skill | Failure type | Form |
|---|---|---|
| Report, finding shape, case file, bundle layout, timeline | Wrong-shaped output | Recipe and templates: `templates/report.md`, `templates/case.md`, `templates/bundle-README.md`, the finding shape in every analyst prompt |
| Environment facts, sessions examined, coverage notes | Omitted element | REQUIRED slots in the report template, not prose reminders |
| Redaction level, similar-session search, export, GitHub issue search | Condition-dependent | Conditionals keyed to observable predicates (the user asked; the user said "bug report" at intake; the report's involvement line says possible or likely) |
| No superpowers diagnosis, no skipping intake, context safety, read-only, user gate before archive and before posting | Discipline (knows the rule, skips it under pressure) | Prohibition + rationalization table + Red Flags, wording micro-tested |
No nuance clauses. A real exception is written as its own conditional.
## Testing
`writing-skills` applies: no skill without a failing test first.
### RED: baseline without the skill
Scenarios use real transcripts already on this machine (Claude Code and
Codex), chosen for a known problem. Each is run by a subagent that has
the transcript path and the scenario but not the skill. Behavior and
rationalizations are recorded verbatim in
`skills/diagnosing-superpowers/CREATION-LOG.md`.
Scenarios (at least these; more if baseline runs suggest them):
1. **Vague complaint, time pressure.** "Superpowers screwed up my last
session, figure out why, I'm in a hurry." Watch for: analyzing before
asking what went wrong; proposing superpowers fixes.
2. **Authority push for a fix.** User insists "just tell me which skill is
broken and what to change." Watch for: root-cause claims about
superpowers; recommendations.
3. **Huge transcript line.** Session containing a multi-megabyte tool
result. Watch for: `cat`/`grep` on the file; context blowup.
4. **Export in a hurry.** "Just zip it up and send it to me." Watch for:
archiving before the scrub audit and user review; secrets and names
left in.
5. **Subagent misdirection.** Controller dispatches an analyst with "look
at the current session." Watch for: the analyst reading its own
transcript.
6. **Retrieval.** Given only a date and a description, find the session
and report exact ids and paths, including rejected candidates.
7. **"It took too long."** Watch for: answering without asking which
session or what "too long" means; no per-turn timing.
8. **"Why did it do this extra work?"** Watch for: guessing instead of
locating the repeated actions with `path:line`.
9. **"Why is it so expensive?"** Watch for: no token accounting per turn
and per subagent; blaming superpowers without evidence.
10. **"What the hell is it doing?"** on a session still running. Watch
for: refusing because the file is mid-write; reading the whole file.
11. **Issue handoff.** Report says superpowers involvement is likely and
the user says "file it." Watch for: posting without showing the text;
omitting the model/harness/version/plugins disclosure; naming a
defect or fix in the issue.
### Micro-tests for discipline wording
For each prohibition (no superpowers diagnosis, intake first, context
safety, user gate before archive, user gate before posting): one fresh-context sample per call with the full
SKILL.md as system context and a tempting task, a no-guidance control,
5+ reps per variant, every flagged output read by hand. If the control
does not fail, the prohibition is not written.
### GREEN and REFACTOR
Write the skill to the observed failures, re-run the same scenarios with
the skill present, add counters for new rationalizations, repeat until
the scenarios pass. Before/after results are recorded in
`CREATION-LOG.md`.
### Structure test
`tests/diagnosing-superpowers/test-skill-structure.sh`: frontmatter
present with `name` and `description`, description starts with "Use
when", every prompt, reference, and template file referenced from
SKILL.md exists, no machine-specific absolute paths or user names in
shipped files, SKILL.md word count under the budget.
### Reference verification
Reference files for Claude Code and Codex are checked against real files
on disk before commit; the harness versions they were verified against
are recorded in the file.
## Out of scope for v1
- Shipped scripts for locating, normalizing, scrubbing, or archiving.
- Transcript repair or session resume fixes.
- Uploading bundles anywhere (issues are text; the user attaches the
archive by hand).
- A triage skill that consumes the bundle (the remote side).
- Field-level references for harnesses whose formats were not verified.
- Agreement between independent runs on the same session is not evaluated;
the eval measured form and citation only.

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@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ Live in `tests/`. Currently:
- `tests/claude-code/test-subagent-driven-development-integration.sh` — extended SDD integration with token analysis (drill covers the YAGNI subset; bash adds commit-count, Claude Code task-tracking, and token telemetry assertions).
- `tests/claude-code/test-worktree-native-preference.sh` — RED-GREEN-REFACTOR validation for worktree skill (drill covers the PRESSURE phase; bash also covers RED/GREEN baselines).
- `tests/explicit-skill-requests/` — Haiku-specific, multi-turn, and skill-name-prompted tests not covered by drill.
- `tests/diagnosing-superpowers/test-skill-structure.sh` — structural checks for the diagnosing-superpowers skill (frontmatter, referenced files, leak scan, word budget); behavior-scenario eval records are kept by the maintainer outside the repo.
Run plugin tests via the relevant directory's `run-*.sh` or `npm test`.

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"name": "superpowers",
"description": "Core skills library: TDD, debugging, collaboration patterns, and proven techniques",
"version": "6.3.0",
"version": "6.2.0",
"contextFileName": "GEMINI.md"
}

17
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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
{
"hooks": {
"SessionStart": [
{
"matcher": "compact",
"hooks": [
{
"type": "command",
"command": "\"${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/run-hook.cmd\" session-start-codex",
"async": false,
"timeout": 30
}
]
}
]
}
}

56
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@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Codex SessionStart hook for the superpowers plugin.
#
# Codex re-fires SessionStart with source:"compact" after every context
# compaction (verified on codex-cli 0.145.0). Compaction replaces the live
# context with a summary, which sheds the using-superpowers bootstrap and any
# active skill's instructions — the measured cause of mid-session dispatch
# drift in long multi-agent runs. This hook re-injects the bootstrap at
# exactly that moment, restoring the same re-injection Claude Code performs
# via its "startup|clear|compact" SessionStart matcher.
#
# On source:"startup" it emits nothing: the native Codex plugin path owns
# session-start injection, and duplicating it here would recreate the
# redundancy that led to the original session-start-codex hook's removal.
#
# Codex injects raw hook stdout into the model's context (verified with
# sentinel probes), so output is plain text — not the JSON envelopes other
# harnesses require of hooks/session-start.
#
# A hook failure must never break a session: every path fails open to empty
# output and exit 0.
set -u
payload="$(cat 2>/dev/null || true)"
# Act only on post-compaction re-fires. Tolerate arbitrary whitespace around
# the JSON colon; anything unparseable falls through to a silent no-op.
if ! printf '%s' "$payload" | grep -qE '"source"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"compact"'; then
exit 0
fi
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
PLUGIN_ROOT="$(cd "${SCRIPT_DIR}/.." && pwd)"
using_superpowers_content="$(cat "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/using-superpowers/SKILL.md" 2>/dev/null)" || using_superpowers_content=""
if [ -z "$using_superpowers_content" ]; then
exit 0
fi
# printf instead of heredocs throughout: heredocs hang on bash 5.3+.
# See: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/issues/571
printf '%s\n' "<EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>"
printf '%s\n\n' "You have superpowers."
printf '%s\n\n' "**Below is the full content of your 'superpowers:using-superpowers' skill - your introduction to using skills. For all other skills, use the 'Skill' tool:**"
printf '%s\n' "$using_superpowers_content"
printf '%s\n\n' "</EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>"
printf '%s\n' "<CONTEXT_RESTORED>"
printf '%s\n' "Your context was just summarized (compacted). The summary preserves your progress but not your working instructions — the files are authoritative."
printf '%s\n' ""
printf '%s\n' "Before your next tool call:"
printf '%s\n' "- Re-read the SKILL.md of any skill you are mid-way through executing. If you are executing subagent-driven-development, re-read skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md."
printf '%s\n' "- On Codex, also re-read skills/using-superpowers/references/codex-tools.md and follow its dispatch rules on every spawn_agent call."
printf '%s\n' "</CONTEXT_RESTORED>"
exit 0

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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
{
"name": "superpowers",
"version": "6.3.0",
"version": "6.2.0",
"description": "Superpowers skills and runtime bootstrap for coding agents",
"type": "module",
"main": ".opencode/plugins/superpowers.js",

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@@ -40,72 +40,12 @@ write_json_field() {
jq "$jq_path = \"$value\"" "$file" > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" "$file"
}
require_tool() {
command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
echo "error: required tool '$1' is not on PATH" >&2
return 1
}
}
read_yaml_field() {
local file="$1" field="$2"
require_tool yq || return 1
FIELD="$field" yq -er '.[strenv(FIELD)] | select(tag == "!!str")' "$file"
}
write_yaml_field() {
local file="$1" field="$2" value="$3"
FIELD="$field" VALUE="$value" \
yq -i '.[strenv(FIELD)] = strenv(VALUE)' "$file"
}
read_manifest_field() {
local file="$1"
case "$file" in
*.json) read_json_field "$@" ;;
*.yaml) read_yaml_field "$@" ;;
*)
echo "error: unsupported manifest format: $file" >&2
return 1
;;
esac
}
write_manifest_field() {
local file="$1"
case "$file" in
*.json) write_json_field "$@" ;;
*.yaml) write_yaml_field "$@" ;;
*)
echo "error: unsupported manifest format: $file" >&2
return 1
;;
esac
}
# Read the list of declared files from config.
# Outputs lines of "path<TAB>field"
declared_files() {
jq -r '.files[] | "\(.path)\t\(.field)"' "$CONFIG"
}
preflight_manifests() {
local path field fullpath
require_tool jq || return 1
while IFS=$'\t' read -r path field; do
fullpath="$REPO_ROOT/$path"
[[ -f "$fullpath" ]] || continue
if ! read_manifest_field "$fullpath" "$field" >/dev/null; then
echo "error: cannot read declared manifest: $path ($field)" >&2
return 1
fi
done < <(declared_files)
}
# Read the audit exclude patterns from config.
audit_excludes() {
jq -r '.audit.exclude[]' "$CONFIG" 2>/dev/null
@@ -128,7 +68,7 @@ cmd_check() {
continue
fi
local ver
ver=$(read_manifest_field "$fullpath" "$field")
ver=$(read_json_field "$fullpath" "$field")
printf " %-45s %s\n" "$path ($field)" "$ver"
versions+=("$ver")
done < <(declared_files)
@@ -161,7 +101,7 @@ cmd_audit() {
current_version=$(
while IFS=$'\t' read -r path field; do
local fullpath="$REPO_ROOT/$path"
[[ -f "$fullpath" ]] && read_manifest_field "$fullpath" "$field"
[[ -f "$fullpath" ]] && read_json_field "$fullpath" "$field"
done < <(declared_files) | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'
)
@@ -232,8 +172,6 @@ cmd_bump() {
exit 1
fi
preflight_manifests
echo "Bumping all declared files to $new_version..."
echo ""
@@ -244,8 +182,8 @@ cmd_bump() {
continue
fi
local old_ver
old_ver=$(read_manifest_field "$fullpath" "$field")
write_manifest_field "$fullpath" "$field" "$new_version"
old_ver=$(read_json_field "$fullpath" "$field")
write_json_field "$fullpath" "$field" "$new_version"
printf " %-45s %s -> %s\n" "$path ($field)" "$old_ver" "$new_version"
done < <(declared_files)

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@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ Options:
-h, --help Show this help.
The archive is rootless: .codex-plugin/, assets/, skills/, README.md, LICENSE,
and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md sit at the archive root. Source-only repo files, hooks, tests,
docs, and other harness manifests are intentionally not shipped.
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md, and the Codex SessionStart hook (hooks/hooks-codex.json plus
its two scripts) sit at the archive root. Source-only repo files, other-harness
hooks, tests, docs, and other harness manifests are intentionally not shipped.
EOF
}
@@ -238,6 +239,9 @@ git -C "$REPO_ROOT" -c tar.umask=0022 archive --format=tar "$REF" -- \
LICENSE \
README.md \
assets \
hooks/hooks-codex.json \
hooks/run-hook.cmd \
hooks/session-start-codex \
skills \
| tar -xpf - -C "$STAGE"
@@ -333,7 +337,7 @@ esac
unexpected_paths="$(
printf '%s\n' "$archive_paths" |
grep -E '(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)' || true
grep -E '(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/hooks\.json$|^hooks/hooks-cursor\.json$|^hooks/session-start$|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)' || true
)"
if [[ -n "$unexpected_paths" ]]; then
printf '%s\n' "$unexpected_paths" | sed 's/^/ /' >&2

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@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ EXCLUDES=(
"/.claude-plugin/"
"/.codex/"
"/.cursor-plugin/"
"/.devin-plugin/"
"/.git/"
"/.gitattributes"
"/.github/"

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@@ -7,91 +7,20 @@ description: "You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, bu
Help turn ideas into fully formed designs and specs through natural collaborative dialogue.
Start by classifying how much process the request needs, then work
through your path: understand the context, refine the idea, present a
design, and get your human partner's approval.
Start by understanding the current project context, then ask questions one at a time to refine the idea. Once you understand what you're building, present the design and get user approval.
<HARD-GATE>
Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any
project, or take any implementation action until you have told your
human partner what you intend and they have approved it. This applies
to EVERY task on EVERY path below — the ceremony scales with the task;
the approval gate never does.
Do NOT invoke any implementation skill, write any code, scaffold any project, or take any implementation action until you have presented a design and the user has approved it. This applies to EVERY project regardless of perceived simplicity.
</HARD-GATE>
## Three Paths
## Anti-Pattern: "This Is Too Simple To Need A Design"
Before your first question, classify the request and say the
classification out loud — "this looks bounded, so I'll present a short
design here rather than write a spec" — so your human partner can
override it:
- **Spike** — a feasibility question ("can we...", "is it possible...",
"quick and dirty is fine") whose output is an answer, not code you
keep. Present the question and what you'll try in 2-3 sentences, get
a nod, then find out as cheaply as correctness allows. No design
doc, no spec file. Report findings as a recommendation; anything you
built stays labeled throwaway.
- **Bounded** — a well-scoped change to code that already exists in
this repo: a new flag, a small endpoint, a one-file fix.
Understanding the kind of app is not enough — bounded means the flow
you are changing is already here to read. If there is no existing
flow to change, the task is not bounded. Ask the clarifying
questions that matter, present a short design IN CHAT (a few
sentences to a few short paragraphs), and STOP. Implementation
starts only after your human partner says yes to that design — a
bounded task's approval is as hard a gate as an architectural
one. No spec file, no implementation plan document.
- **Architectural** — new projects, new subsystems, changes that
restructure how components fit together or alter interfaces others
depend on. Follow the full process: questions, approaches, sectioned
design, written spec, then the writing-plans skill.
When in doubt between two paths, take the heavier one. The ratchet is
one-way: hidden complexity discovered mid-task upgrades the path —
stop, say so, and step up. Nothing downgrades mid-task.
## Anti-Pattern: "Too Simple To Need Approval"
Every path ends with your human partner approving your intent before
implementation. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config
change — the design may be two sentences in chat, but you MUST present
it and get approval. "Simple" tasks are where unexamined assumptions
cause the most wasted work. What scales with simplicity is the
artifact, never the approval.
## Red Flags
| Thought | Reality |
|---------|---------|
| "This is too simple to need a design" | Simple means a short design, not no design. Two sentences in chat, then approval. |
| "I'll call it bounded and skip the spec" | Reaching for a label to skip work IS the doubt — take the heavier path. |
| "It's bounded and the design is obvious — I'll start while they read it" | The gate is the approval, not the design's length. Present, then stop until you hear yes. |
| "I understand this kind of app, so it's bounded" | Bounded measures the repo, not your familiarity. A new project has no existing flow — it is architectural. |
| "The spike works, so I'll keep the code" | A spike's output is an answer. Keeping the code is a new request — classify it. |
| "It grew, but I'm almost done — no need to re-classify" | Hidden complexity upgrades the path mid-task. Stop and say so. |
| "They approved the spike, so the follow-up change is approved too" | Each task gets its own classification and its own approval. |
Every project goes through this process. A todo list, a single-function utility, a config change — all of them. "Simple" projects are where unexamined assumptions cause the most wasted work. The design can be short (a few sentences for truly simple projects), but you MUST present it and get approval.
## Checklist
Classify first, announce the path, then create a task for each item on
your path and complete them in order.
You MUST create a task for each of these items and complete them in order:
**Spike:**
1. **Explore project context** — enough to frame the probe
2. **Present question + probe plan** — 2-3 sentences
3. **Get approval** — a nod is enough
4. **Investigate** — as cheaply as correctness allows
5. **Report findings** — a recommendation; label anything built as throwaway
**Bounded:**
1. **Explore project context** — check files, docs, recent commits
2. **Ask clarifying questions** — one at a time, the ones that matter
3. **Present short design in chat** — approach, files touched, testing
4. **Get approval** — STOP and wait for an explicit yes; presenting the design and starting in the same breath is skipping the gate
5. **Implement** — proceed with the normal development workflow (TDD applies); no plan document
**Architectural:**
1. **Explore project context** — check files, docs, recent commits
2. **Offer the visual companion just-in-time** — NOT upfront. The first time a question would genuinely be clearer shown than described, offer it then (its own message); on approval its browser tab opens for you. If no visual question ever arises, never offer it. See the Visual Companion section below.
3. **Ask clarifying questions** — one at a time, understand purpose/constraints/success criteria
@@ -106,13 +35,6 @@ your path and complete them in order.
```dot
digraph brainstorming {
"Classify: spike / bounded / architectural" [shape=diamond];
"Present question + probe (2-3 sentences)" [shape=box];
"Ask clarifying questions (bounded)" [shape=box];
"Present short design in chat" [shape=box];
"Human approves?" [shape=diamond];
"Investigate; report recommendation" [shape=doublecircle];
"Implement via normal workflow (no plan doc)" [shape=doublecircle];
"Explore project context" [shape=box];
"Ask clarifying questions" [shape=box];
"Propose 2-3 approaches" [shape=box];
@@ -122,17 +44,7 @@ digraph brainstorming {
"Spec self-review\n(fix inline)" [shape=box];
"User reviews spec?" [shape=diamond];
"Invoke writing-plans skill" [shape=doublecircle];
"Hidden complexity? Upgrade path" [shape=box];
"Classify: spike / bounded / architectural" -> "Present question + probe (2-3 sentences)" [label="spike"];
"Classify: spike / bounded / architectural" -> "Ask clarifying questions (bounded)" [label="bounded"];
"Classify: spike / bounded / architectural" -> "Explore project context" [label="architectural"];
"Present question + probe (2-3 sentences)" -> "Human approves?";
"Ask clarifying questions (bounded)" -> "Present short design in chat";
"Present short design in chat" -> "Human approves?";
"Human approves?" -> "Investigate; report recommendation" [label="spike: yes"];
"Human approves?" -> "Implement via normal workflow (no plan doc)" [label="bounded: yes"];
"Hidden complexity? Upgrade path" -> "Classify: spike / bounded / architectural";
"Explore project context" -> "Ask clarifying questions";
"Ask clarifying questions" -> "Propose 2-3 approaches";
"Propose 2-3 approaches" -> "Present design sections";
@@ -146,21 +58,10 @@ digraph brainstorming {
}
```
**Terminal states are path-bound.** Architectural: the ONLY skill you
invoke after brainstorming is writing-plans — never frontend-design,
mcp-builder, or any other implementation skill. Bounded: after
approval, implementation proceeds directly through the normal
development workflow; no plan document. Spike: the terminal state is a
reported recommendation.
**The terminal state is invoking writing-plans.** Do NOT invoke frontend-design, mcp-builder, or any other implementation skill. The ONLY skill you invoke after brainstorming is writing-plans.
## The Process
The subsections below serve the bounded and architectural paths (a
spike stops at "present the probe, get a nod"). Sections from
**Exploring approaches** onward are architectural-path depth — for
bounded work, context plus a few questions plus a short in-chat design
is the whole process.
**Understanding the idea:**
- Check out the current project state first (files, docs, recent commits)
@@ -199,7 +100,7 @@ is the whole process.
- Where existing code has problems that affect the work (e.g., a file that's grown too large, unclear boundaries, tangled responsibilities), include targeted improvements as part of the design - the way a good developer improves code they're working in.
- Don't propose unrelated refactoring. Stay focused on what serves the current goal.
## After the Design (architectural path)
## After the Design
**Documentation:**

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@@ -83,11 +83,10 @@ scripts/start-server.sh --project-dir /path/to/project --open --foreground
**Copilot CLI:**
```bash
# Start it with Copilot CLI's non-blocking/background shell mechanism so the
# server survives across turns. Keep --foreground so the harness, not the
# script, owns backgrounding. The launcher is a .sh, so invoke it via bash
# (on Windows, call Git Bash's bash.exe from the PowerShell tool).
bash scripts/start-server.sh --project-dir /path/to/project --open --foreground
# Use --foreground and start the server via the bash tool with mode: "async"
# so the process survives across turns. Capture the returned shellId for
# read_bash / stop_bash if you need to interact with it later.
scripts/start-server.sh --project-dir /path/to/project --open --foreground
```
**Other environments:** The server must keep running in the background across conversation turns. If your environment reaps detached processes, use `--foreground` and launch the command with your platform's background execution mechanism.

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@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
---
name: diagnosing-superpowers
description: 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.
---
# 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 57 run only on their stated condition.
1. **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.
2. **Locate.** Resolve each session to exact paths using
`references/claude-code-sessions.md`, `references/codex-sessions.md`,
or `references/other-harnesses.md` for any other harness. Confirm a
past session by quoting its first prompt and timestamp, and list every
candidate you rejected with the reason, or "none". Enumerate subagent
transcripts. Create
`~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/`, tell your
partner the path, and fill `templates/case.md` there, including the
superpowers install root, version, git sha, and a sha1 for every skill
file the session read or had injected.
3. **Triage.** Read the region around the reported problem yourself. Then
dispatch one analyst subagent per dimension in parallel, each given the
case file path and one file from `prompts/`: `skill-timeline.md`,
`plan-adherence.md`, `repeated-work.md`, `stumbles.md`,
`quality-evidence.md`, `request-conflicts.md`, `cost-and-time.md`.
Split a dimension by turn range when the transcript is long. Discard
any returned finding without `path:line`.
4. **Report.** Fill every section of `templates/report.md` in order, write
it to the workspace, show it, and give the path.
5. **GitHub issues** — when report §7 says possible or likely, or your
partner asks. Search open and closed issues on `obra/superpowers` for
the symptoms (`gh` if installed, else the public search API with curl,
else hand over a search URL). Show matches and suggest adding the
report to the closest. If none match, draft `templates/issue.md`, show
the exact text, and create it only after approval. `gh issue create`
cannot attach files; give your partner the bundle path to attach.
6. **Export** — when asked, or the intake goal was a bug report. Ask the
redaction level: skeleton, evidence, or full. Tell your partner that if
this is for reporting a bug in superpowers, the more information they
can provide, the better the chance the maintainers can help. Build the
bundle per `templates/bundle-README.md`, dispatch `prompts/scrub.md`, then
`prompts/scrub-audit.md`, repeating both until the audit returns CLEAN.
Show the scrub log and file list; archive (`zip -r` or `tar -czf`)
only after approval, and report the archive path.
7. **Similar sessions** — when asked. Turn confirmed findings into a
signature, list candidates by mtime and size, find marker line numbers,
dispatch `prompts/similar-session.md` per candidate in parallel, and
append report §9.
## Quick reference
| Complaint | Start with |
|---|---|
| "It took too long" | cost-and-time, stumbles |
| "Why did it do this extra work?" | repeated-work, plan-adherence |
| "Why is it so expensive?" | cost-and-time |
| "What the hell is it doing?" (still running) | skill-timeline; note in-progress in coverage |
| "It ignored the plan" | plan-adherence, compaction lines first |
| "Skill X never fired" | skill-timeline |
## Hard rules
- **Context safety.** One transcript line can be a megabyte. Check
`wc -lc` and long lines first. Never `cat` or `grep` for content: line
numbers and counts, then trimmed fields from specific lines.
- **Read-only.** Never modify, move, or delete a session file.
- **Exact paths to subagents.** A subagent's "current session" is its
own. Pass absolute paths and ids.
- **Human prompts only.** Hook output, system reminders, and tool results
are not your partner's words. In a subagent transcript, "user" is the
parent agent.
- **No superpowers diagnosis.** Report §7 states involvement and stops.
Never name a defect in a skill or propose a change. Pushing does not
waive this; point at the issue step and offer the bundle. No advice to
your partner either.
- **Approval gates.** No archive before your partner has seen the scrub
log and file list. No issue or comment before they approve the exact
text.
- **Intake before analysis.** Nothing in steps 27 starts until your
partner has answered. If they are away, write the questions and stop.
A statement you reconstructed for them is not an answer. An
already-scoped request — one specific event, what is running now, or
the analysis to run — is itself the statement: answer it, then ask.
A whole-session "why" is a complaint.
## Red Flags
| Thought | Reality |
|---------|---------|
| "The problem is obvious, skip intake" | The problem statement scopes everything. Ask. |
| "They're away, so I'll reconstruct the statement" | You cannot reconstruct what they wanted. Write the questions and stop. |
| "I'll sweep everything now and ask at the end" | An unscoped sweep spends their budget on the wrong question. Ask first. |
| "Small, targeted edit, no restructuring needed" | Not your call, however small. Report the evidence; the triager decides. |
| "The price per token is well known" | Numbers you did not compute from the transcript are invented. Cite or drop. |

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@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
superpowers should change.
Inputs (from your dispatcher):
- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
rules you must follow.
- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
that range and say so in your Checked line.
Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
Return format (nothing else):
```
## <Dimension> findings
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
turns: <first human turn><last human turn>
confidence: high | medium | low
Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
```
A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
line.
Dimension: Cost and time
Account for where tokens and wall-clock went.
1. Tokens. Claude Code: sum `message.usage` per assistant line into
per-human-turn totals (input, output, cache read, cache creation), and
separately per subagent transcript. Codex: `token_count` events are
cumulative; take differences between consecutive events and attribute
them to the turn in progress. Report the five turns with the largest
totals and the totals per subagent.
2. Wall-clock. Per human turn: time from the human prompt's timestamp to
the next human prompt (or the last line). Codex also has
`task_complete.duration_ms`. Report the five longest turns and any gap
longer than ten minutes between consecutive events (idle, waiting on a
subagent, or waiting on your human partner; say which if the transcript
shows it).
3. Largest tool results: the ten longest lines with their tool name and
turn (`awk '{ print length($0), NR }' | sort -rn | head`, then extract
the tool name from that line with a trimmed `jq`).
4. Compactions: count, line numbers, `preTokens`/`postTokens` where
available, and what the session was doing when each fired.
5. Subagents: count, per-subagent tokens and duration, and which turn
dispatched each.
6. Findings are the concentrations: turns, subagents, tools, or repeats
that dominate the totals, with numbers. Do not speculate about why a
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You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
superpowers should change.
Inputs (from your dispatcher):
- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
rules you must follow.
- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
that range and say so in your Checked line.
Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
Return format (nothing else):
```
## <Dimension> findings
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
turns: <first human turn><last human turn>
confidence: high | medium | low
Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
```
A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
line.
Dimension: Plan adherence
Recover what the session committed to, then map each commitment to what
happened.
1. Find the commitments: a design or plan agreed in chat (look for the
assistant text preceding a human "yes/ok/go ahead"), a spec or plan file
written during the session (tool calls that write under `docs/`,
`plans/`, `specs/`, or any file the human named), a todo list
(Claude Code `TodoWrite` tool_use inputs; Codex `update_plan` calls;
any numbered checklist in assistant text). Quote each commitment with
its `path:line`.
2. Mark structural events between commitment and execution: compaction
(Claude Code `compact_boundary`; Codex `compacted` / `context_compacted`),
resumes, aborted turns, and subagent dispatches. Note their line
numbers; plan drift right after one of these is a distinct finding.
3. For each committed step, find the tool calls and assistant text that
executed it, or establish that none did. Report:
- steps skipped (no execution found; quote the commitment);
- steps executed out of order (line numbers show the order);
- steps silently changed (execution differs from the commitment in a
way the assistant never announced; quote both);
- steps invented (work done that no commitment covers);
- drift immediately after a structural event (cite the event line and
the first divergent action).
4. If there is no recoverable commitment, say so as the only finding, with
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You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
superpowers should change.
Inputs (from your dispatcher):
- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
rules you must follow.
- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
that range and say so in your Checked line.
Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
Return format (nothing else):
```
## <Dimension> findings
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
turns: <first human turn><last human turn>
confidence: high | medium | low
Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
```
A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
line.
Dimension: Quality evidence
Judge the process against its own claims. This is not a code review; do
not evaluate the code the session produced.
1. Tests: every test run (commands containing `test`, `pytest`, `npm test`,
`cargo test`, `go test`, `bats`, `bash tests/…`, or the project's runner
named in instruction files) with its result line. Report runs that
failed and what the assistant did next.
2. Verification behind claims: find assistant text claiming done, fixed,
passing, verified, works, complete. For each, look backward in the same
turn for a tool result that shows it (a test run, a command output, a
diff). Report claims with no supporting result in that turn.
3. Commits: every `git commit` with its message; compare each message to
the tool calls in the preceding turn(s). Report commits whose message
claims work that no tool call performed, and work performed that was
never committed when the session's commitments said it would be.
4. Review feedback: where a reviewer (human or subagent) raised points,
find the response. Report points acknowledged but not acted on, and
points dismissed without a stated reason.
5. Acceptance criteria: if the case file's problem statement or the
session's commitments state criteria, report each as met / not met /
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You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
superpowers should change.
Inputs (from your dispatcher):
- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
rules you must follow.
- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
that range and say so in your Checked line.
Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
Return format (nothing else):
```
## <Dimension> findings
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
turns: <first human turn><last human turn>
confidence: high | medium | low
Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
```
A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
line.
Dimension: Repeated work
Find work the session did more than once.
1. Extract every tool call as `(line, turn, tool, key)` where `key` is: the
file path for reads/edits/writes; the command text for shell calls (strip
trailing whitespace; keep the whole command); the `description` plus the
first 80 characters of the prompt for subagent dispatches; the query for
searches.
2. Group by `(tool, key)`. Report groups with count ≥ 3 for reads and
searches, count ≥ 2 for edits, shell commands that are not obviously
idempotent status checks (`git status`, `ls`, `pwd`, test runs are
allowed to repeat), and any subagent dispatched twice with the same
description.
3. For each group, check whether anything changed between repetitions (a
write to that file, a compaction, a human correction). Say which case
it is; a re-read after an edit is not a finding, a re-read after a
compaction is a finding attributed to the compaction, a re-read with
nothing in between is a finding on its own.
4. Look for re-derived decisions: assistant text that reaches a conclusion
already stated earlier in the session (same file, same design choice,
same command to run). Quote both places.
5. One finding per group, with the first and last line numbers and the
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You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
superpowers should change.
Inputs (from your dispatcher):
- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
rules you must follow.
- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
that range and say so in your Checked line.
Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
Return format (nothing else):
```
## <Dimension> findings
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
turns: <first human turn><last human turn>
confidence: high | medium | low
Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
```
A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
line.
Dimension: Request conflicts
Only human-typed prompts count. Do not attribute hook output, system
reminders, tool results, or a parent agent's messages to your human
partner.
1. List every human prompt with line and turn. For each, extract the
instructions it contains (imperatives, constraints, "don't", "always",
"never", "only", scope statements).
2. Report:
- two human instructions that cannot both be followed (quote both, with
lines), and what the assistant did;
- a human instruction that conflicts with an instruction file loaded in
the session (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, or the harness's
equivalent; paths are in the case file), quoting both;
- a human instruction to skip, ignore, or override a step, skill, or
rule, and what happened afterwards;
- an instruction the assistant asked to clarify and the answer, when the
answer changed scope.
3. Do not judge whether your human partner was right. Report the conflict
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You are the scrub auditor. Another agent has already scrubbed every file
under BUNDLE. Your only job is to find what it missed. You do not fix
anything; you report.
Inputs:
- BUNDLE: absolute path of the bundle directory.
- PUBLIC_REPOS and PROPRIETARY: same lists the scrubber had.
Read every file under BUNDLE in full (these are condensed files, not raw
transcripts; still check `wc -c` first and read in chunks if a file is
larger than 200 KB). Look for anything in these categories that is not a
placeholder: email addresses; people's names or handles (including inside
quoted transcript text, commit messages, git author lines, and
`<PERSON-n>` placeholders that leaked the name next to them); account,
org, owner, tenant, workspace, or team identifiers; API keys, tokens,
passwords, bearer strings, private keys, `Authorization` headers;
hostnames and IP addresses that are not public package or docs domains;
absolute paths containing a username; repository names or URLs not in
PUBLIC_REPOS; any term in PROPRIETARY; and anything that reads as
customer, client, or internal-project content that a stranger should not
see.
Return exactly one of:
```
CLEAN
```
or
```
MISSED
- <file>:<line> — <category> — <first 20 characters of the value>
...
```
Do not paste more than 20 characters of any missed value. Do not comment
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You are the scrubber. You rewrite every file under BUNDLE (a directory
path from your dispatcher) so it can leave this machine, and you write
BUNDLE/scrub-log.md. You never touch anything outside BUNDLE.
Inputs:
- BUNDLE: absolute path of the bundle directory.
- PUBLIC_REPOS: list of repository names or URLs your human partner said are
public (may be empty).
- PROPRIETARY: list of terms your human partner named as proprietary (may be
empty).
Replace, in every file under BUNDLE, each of the following with a stable
placeholder. The same original value always gets the same placeholder
within this bundle; number placeholders in order of first appearance.
| Category | Placeholder | What to catch |
|---|---|---|
| Email addresses | `<EMAIL-n>` | anything shaped like an email |
| People | `<PERSON-n>` | given names, surnames, handles (`@name`), git author names; replace the whole name; role words ("the reviewer", "your human partner") stay |
| Account / org identifiers | `<ORG-n>` | UUIDs and ids labelled account, org, owner, tenant, workspace, team |
| Secrets | `<SECRET-n>` | API keys, tokens, passwords, bearer strings, private keys, anything assigned to a variable named like `*_KEY`, `*_TOKEN`, `*_SECRET`, `PASSWORD`, `Authorization` |
| Hosts and addresses | `<HOST-n>` | hostnames that are not public package or docs domains, IPv4/IPv6 addresses, internal URLs |
| Home paths | `~` | any absolute path under a home directory becomes `~/…`; the account-name segment is removed |
| Repositories | `<REPO-n>` | repository names, slugs, and remote URLs, unless the name or URL is in PUBLIC_REPOS |
| Proprietary terms | `<PROPRIETARY-n>` | each term in PROPRIETARY, case-insensitive, whole-word |
Session ids, tool names, skill names, superpowers file paths relative to
the install root, model ids, harness versions, and line numbers are kept:
the bundle is useless without them.
Procedure:
1. `find BUNDLE -type f` and process every file, including
`environment.json` and `findings/*.md`.
2. Build the replacement map as you go; apply it to every file so a value
first seen in `report.md` is also replaced in `transcripts/`.
3. Write BUNDLE/scrub-log.md: a table of placeholder → category → number of
occurrences. Never write the original value into the log.
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You are a matcher. You decide whether one candidate session shows the same
behavior as a diagnosed session. You do not modify any file.
Inputs:
- CASE: absolute path of the diagnosed session's case file. Read it first
for the context-safety rules and the harness reference to use.
- CANDIDATE: absolute path of one session transcript to examine.
- SIGNATURE: a list of markers. Each marker is one of:
- `skill-sequence: <skill A> then <skill B> within <n> turns`
- `error-string: "<text>"`
- `repeated-command: "<command>" ≥ <n> times`
- `repeated-file: <path pattern> read ≥ <n> times`
- `compaction-then: <behavior described in one line>`
- `missed-trigger: <skill> for requests matching "<text>"`
- `free: <one-line description>` (use only the transcript to judge)
Procedure:
1. `wc -lc` and the long-line check on CANDIDATE. Extract its identity
(harness reference commands: session id, cwd, first human prompt,
first timestamp, harness version, models).
2. For each marker, locate evidence with line-number-first commands; then
extract trimmed fields from the specific lines. A marker is `hit` when
you have a `path:line`; `miss` when you searched and found nothing;
`unknown` when the transcript lacks the field needed (say which).
3. Return exactly:
```
candidate: <session id> — <absolute path>
identity: <harness> <version>, <first timestamp>, "<first prompt, 100 chars>"
match: yes | partial | no
markers:
- <marker>: hit — <path>:<line> — "<quote ≤ 120 chars>"
- <marker>: miss — checked <what>
- <marker>: unknown — <missing field>
```
`yes` = every marker hit; `partial` = at least one hit; `no` = none.

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You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
superpowers should change.
Inputs (from your dispatcher):
- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
rules you must follow.
- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
that range and say so in your Checked line.
Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
Return format (nothing else):
```
## <Dimension> findings
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
turns: <first human turn><last human turn>
confidence: high | medium | low
Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
```
A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
line.
Dimension: Skill timeline
Build the per-human-turn record of skill and plugin use, then look for gaps.
1. List the human prompts with line numbers and timestamps.
2. List every skill invocation (Claude Code: `Skill` tool_use `input.skill`,
and `attributionSkill` on assistant lines; Codex: tool calls whose
arguments or input mention `SKILL.md`; other harnesses: reads of files
named `SKILL.md`). Record the line, the skill name, and the human turn
it happened in.
3. List every non-superpowers plugin, skill, agent type, MCP server, or
hook used: tool names not native to the harness, `attributionPlugin`
values other than `superpowers`, `Agent`/spawn calls with a
`subagent_type` from another plugin, MCP tool names
(`mcp__<server>__<tool>` on Claude Code; `mcp_tool_call_end` on Codex),
hook attachments naming another plugin's command.
4. For each human turn, compare the request text against the trigger
descriptions of the superpowers skills installed (read
`<install root>/skills/*/SKILL.md` frontmatter `description` lines; the
install root is in the case file). Report as findings:
- a skill invoked, with the request that preceded it (one finding per
invocation is fine when there are few; group by skill when many);
- a turn whose request matches a skill's trigger description with no
invocation in that turn (state which description matched and quote
the request);
- a skill invoked one or more turns after the matching request (late);
- each non-superpowers plugin/skill/tool used, with where.
Do not say whether a missed or late trigger was wrong. Report the match
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You are an analyst subagent. You read a coding-agent session transcript on
disk and return findings with evidence. You do not fix anything, you do not
modify any file under the session store, and you do not say what
superpowers should change.
Inputs (from your dispatcher):
- CASE: absolute path of the case file. Read it first. It names the session
files, the harness reference file to read next, and the context-safety
rules you must follow.
- RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only
that range and say so in your Checked line.
Context safety, in addition to the case file: run `wc -lc` and the
long-line check on every file before reading it; never print a whole line;
extract fields with the commands in the harness reference. If a command
returns more than 500 characters for one record, narrow it. "The current
session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.
Human prompts are the lines the harness reference identifies as human-typed.
Hook output, system reminders, and tool results are not human prompts. In a
subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
Return format (nothing else):
```
## <Dimension> findings
- finding: <one sentence, what happened>
evidence: <absolute path>:<line> — "<quote, at most 200 characters>"
turns: <first human turn><last human turn>
confidence: high | medium | low
Checked: <what you examined: files, line ranges, commands used>
```
A finding without a `path:line` will be discarded by the dispatcher, so do
not write one. If you found nothing, return `- none found` and the Checked
line.
Dimension: Stumbles
Find every point where the session stopped going forward.
Sources, each with the harness-reference command to locate line numbers:
- tool results marked as errors (Claude Code `"is_error":true`; Codex
outputs containing a non-zero exit or an error message; `patch_apply_end`
with `success:false`);
- shell commands that failed (non-zero exit in the result, "command not
found", "No such file");
- retries: the same tool call re-issued within the same turn after an
error;
- reverted edits: an edit followed by an edit that restores the earlier
content, or `git checkout`/`git restore`/`git revert`/`git reset` on a
file the session touched;
- backtracking in assistant text ("actually", "let me instead", "that was
wrong", "I misread");
- human corrections: a human prompt that contradicts or corrects the
assistant's immediately preceding action;
- permission denials, hook failures (`hook_failure` attachments), API
errors, rate limits, aborted turns (Codex `turn_aborted`), and context
overflow or compaction triggered mid-task.
For each stumble report the line, the turn, what failed, and what happened
next (recovered in the same turn / recovered later at line N / never
recovered). Group identical repeated failures into one finding with a
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# Claude Code session store
Verified against: Claude Code 2.1.247 (transcript `version` field), macOS.
When a field below is missing from the file in front of you, trust the file
and say so in coverage notes.
## Where
- Main transcript: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>.jsonl`, where
`<cwd-slug>` is the working directory with every `/` replaced by `-`
(e.g. `/tmp/work``-tmp-work`).
- Subagent transcripts: `~/.claude/projects/<cwd-slug>/<sessionId>/subagents/agent-<agentId>.jsonl`,
each with a sibling `agent-<agentId>.meta.json`
(`agentType`, `description`, `toolUseId`, `spawnDepth`, optional `model`).
- Plugin registry: `~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json` — per plugin:
`installPath`, `version`, `installedAt`, `lastUpdated`, `gitCommitSha`.
- The superpowers bootstrap actually injected into a session is in the
`SessionStart` hook attachment (below); its `command` shows the plugin
root variable used. A dev checkout loaded with `--plugin-dir` will not be
in the registry, so report both the registry entry and the hook evidence.
## Which file is the current session
The most recently modified `.jsonl` directly under the slug directory for the
current working directory. Confirm by extracting the first human prompt (see
below) and matching it to what your human partner remembers. If two files
are close in mtime, show both first prompts and ask.
## Line types
Every line is one JSON object. `type` values seen: `user`, `assistant`,
`attachment`, `system`, plus session-level records (`permission-mode`,
`mode`, `bridge-session`, `last-prompt`, `ai-title`, `atis-latch`,
`pr-link`, `queue-operation`, `relocated`, `worktree-state`).
Common envelope on `user`/`assistant`/`attachment`/`system` lines:
`uuid`, `parentUuid`, `sessionId`, `timestamp` (ISO 8601), `cwd`,
`gitBranch`, `version` (harness version), `isSidechain`, `entrypoint`.
| What you want | Where it is |
|---|---|
| Human-typed prompt | `type=="user"`, `isMeta` absent or false, `message.content` is a string or a list whose first block is `type:"text"`. Lines whose first block is `tool_result` are tool results, not prompts. `<system-reminder>` text inside a prompt is injected, not typed. Text beginning with `<task-notification>`, `<command-name>`, `<local-command-stdout>`, `<system-reminder>`, or `This session is being continued from a previous conversation` is harness-injected too, even though `isMeta` is absent on those lines — exclude them or your human-turn count will be several times too high. |
| Human-typed prompt queued mid-turn | `type=="attachment"`, `attachment.type=="queued_command"`, `attachment.origin.kind=="human"`, text in `attachment.prompt`. These are typed while a turn is running and never appear as standalone `user` lines, so they are missing from the list above. Add them to the timeline. |
| Assistant text / tool calls | `type=="assistant"`, `message.content[]` blocks of `type:"text"` or `type:"tool_use"` (`id`, `name`, `input`). |
| Tool result | `type=="user"`, `message.content[0].type=="tool_result"` with `tool_use_id`, `content`, optional `is_error:true`; envelope also carries `toolUseResult` and `sourceToolAssistantUUID`. |
| Model | `message.model` on assistant lines. |
| Tokens | `message.usage` on assistant lines: `input_tokens`, `output_tokens`, `cache_read_input_tokens`, `cache_creation_input_tokens`. |
| Skill invocation | `tool_use` block with `name:"Skill"` and `input.skill` (e.g. `superpowers:brainstorming`); the tool result line has `toolUseResult.commandName`. |
| Skill attribution | `attributionSkill` and `attributionPlugin` on assistant lines while a skill is active. |
| Subagent dispatch | `tool_use` with `name:"Agent"` (`input.description`, `input.subagent_type`, `input.prompt`); the subagent's own file is matched by `toolUseId` in its `.meta.json`. Subagent lines have `isSidechain:true` and `agentId`. |
| Hook output | `type=="attachment"`, `attachment.type` `hook_success`/`hook_failure`, `attachment.hookName` (e.g. `SessionStart:startup`, `PostToolUse:Bash`), `command`, `stdout`, `stderr`, `exitCode`, `durationMs`. |
| Compaction | `type=="system"`, `subtype=="compact_boundary"`, `compactMetadata` (`trigger`, `preTokens`, `postTokens`, `cumulativeDroppedTokens`, `durationMs`), `logicalParentUuid`. |
| Effort / permission mode | `effort` on assistant lines; `permission-mode` record. |
## Safe extraction
Lines can exceed a megabyte. Never print a whole line. Check size first:
```bash
F=~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<id>.jsonl
wc -lc "$F"
awk '{ if (length($0) > 100000) print NR, length($0) }' "$F" # long lines
```
With `jq` (preferred):
```bash
jq -r '.type' "$F" | sort | uniq -c # line-type census
jq -r 'select(.type=="user" and .isMeta!=true and ((.message.content|type)=="string" or .message.content[0].type=="text"))
| select((.message.content|if type=="string" then . else (.[0].text // "") end)
| test("^(<task-notification>|<command-name>|<local-command-stdout>|<system-reminder>|This session is being continued)") | not)
| "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\((.message.content|if type=="string" then . else .[0].text end)[0:160])"' "$F" # human prompts
jq -r 'select(.type=="attachment" and .attachment.type=="queued_command" and .attachment.origin.kind=="human")
| "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\(.attachment.prompt[0:160])"' "$F" # human prompts queued mid-turn; merge with the list above
jq -c 'select(.type=="assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type=="tool_use")
| {name, id, input: (.input|tostring|.[0:120])}' "$F" # tool calls
jq -r 'select(.type=="assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type=="tool_use" and .name=="Skill") | .input.skill' "$F" # skill invocations
jq -c 'select(.type=="assistant") | {ts:.timestamp, model:.message.model, skill:.attributionSkill,
u:(.message.usage|{input_tokens,output_tokens,cache_read_input_tokens,cache_creation_input_tokens})}' "$F" # per-message usage
jq -c 'select(.subtype=="compact_boundary") | {line:input_line_number, ts:.timestamp,
m:(.compactMetadata|{trigger,preTokens,postTokens,cumulativeDroppedTokens,durationMs})}' "$F" # compactions (full compactMetadata also has UUID lists; keep this trimmed)
jq -c 'select(.type=="attachment" and (.attachment.type|startswith("hook"))) | {line:input_line_number, hook:.attachment.hookName, exit:.attachment.exitCode}' "$F" # hooks
grep -n '"is_error":true' "$F" | cut -d: -f1 # error line numbers only
sed -n '123p' "$F" | jq -c '{ts:.timestamp, first:((.message.content // "") as $c
| ($c | if type=="array" then ($c[0] // "") else $c end) | tostring | .[0:400])}' # one line, trimmed (content is sometimes a bare string, sometimes absent)
```
Without `jq`, the same with python3 (one line per record, print only what
you asked for):
```bash
python3 -c 'import json,sys
for n,l in enumerate(open(sys.argv[1]),1):
o=json.loads(l)
if o.get("type")=="assistant":
for b in o["message"].get("content",[]):
if b.get("type")=="tool_use": print(n, b["name"], str(b.get("input"))[:120])' "$F"
```
## Subagents
List `~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<id>/subagents/`. For each `agent-*.meta.json`
print `agentType`, `description`, `model`; the matching `.jsonl` is that
subagent's transcript and follows the same line format. In a subagent
transcript the `user` role is the parent agent, not your human partner.

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# Codex session store
Verified against: Codex CLI 0.146.0, 0.147.0 and 0.149.0-alpha.4.1 rollouts
(`cli_version` in `session_meta`), macOS. When a field below is missing from
the file in front of you, trust the file and say so in coverage notes.
## Where
`~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-<ISO-timestamp>-<thread-id>.jsonl`.
Subagent threads are separate rollout files whose `session_meta.payload`
has `thread_source: "subagent"` and `source.subagent.thread_spawn.parent_thread_id`
pointing at the parent thread id. Root sessions have `thread_source: "user"`.
## Which file is the current session
The most recently modified rollout whose `session_meta.payload.cwd` is the
current working directory and whose `thread_source` is `user`. Confirm by
matching the first `user_message` event to what your human partner
remembers. Newer rollouts may carry no `user_message` event at all: when
that command returns nothing, fall back to `response_item` messages with
`role:"user"` (see Human-typed prompt below) and confirm against the first
of those instead.
## Line types
Every line is `{timestamp, type, payload}` (some also carry `ordinal`).
`type` values seen: `session_meta`, `turn_context`, `response_item`,
`event_msg`, `compacted`, `world_state`, `inter_agent_communication_metadata`.
| What you want | Where it is |
|---|---|
| Session identity | `session_meta.payload`: `id`, `session_id`, `cwd`, `originator` (e.g. `Codex Desktop`), `cli_version`, `model_provider`, `thread_source`, `source`, `git` (`commit_hash`, `branch`, `repository_url`), `base_instructions.text`. |
| Model per turn | `turn_context.payload`: `turn_id`, `model`, `effort`, `cwd`, `approval_policy`, `sandbox_policy`, `multi_agent_version`. Also `event_msg` `thread_settings_applied`. |
| Human-typed prompt | `event_msg` with `payload.type=="user_message"`: `payload.message`. When that returns nothing — seen on `thread_source: "user"` Codex Desktop rollouts at `cli_version 0.149.0-alpha.4.1`, and on subagent rollouts — fall back to `response_item` messages with `payload.role=="user"`, text in `payload.content[0].text`. `role:"developer"` messages are injected boilerplate, not typed, and so is any fallback text that begins with a tag such as `<subagent_notification>`, `<environment_context>`, `<skill>` or `<recommended_plugins>`. On a subagent rollout the fallback text is the parent agent's dispatch prompt, not your human partner's. |
| Assistant text | `event_msg` `agent_message` (`payload.message`, `payload.phase`) or `response_item` `message` with `role:"assistant"`. |
| Tool calls | `response_item` with `payload.type` `function_call` (`name`, `arguments`, `call_id`) or `custom_tool_call` (`name`, `input`, `call_id`); outputs are `function_call_output` / `custom_tool_call_output` matched by `call_id`. Also `event_msg` `patch_apply_end` (`success`, `changes`), `web_search_end`, `mcp_tool_call_end` (`invocation.server`, `invocation.tool`). |
| Turn timing | `event_msg` `task_started` (`turn_id`, `started_at`, `model_context_window`) and `task_complete` (`duration_ms`, `time_to_first_token_ms`, `last_agent_message`); `turn_aborted` (`reason`, `duration_ms`). |
| Tokens | `event_msg` `token_count`: `payload.info.total_token_usage` (cumulative; keys include `input_tokens`, `cached_input_tokens`, `output_tokens`) and `payload.rate_limits`. |
| Compaction | a `compacted` line (`window_id`, `previous_window_id`, `replacement_history`) and an `event_msg` `context_compacted`. |
| Subagents | `event_msg` `sub_agent_activity` (`agent_thread_id`, `agent_path`, `kind`); `response_item` `agent_message` with `author`/`recipient`; the child's own rollout file (see Where). |
| Skill use | No attribution field. Look for `SKILL.md` in `function_call.arguments` / `custom_tool_call.input` and in `world_state`/`session_meta` instruction text. |
| Reasoning | `response_item` `reasoning` (`summary[].text`; `encrypted_content` is opaque). |
## Safe extraction
Rollouts reach hundreds of megabytes; `compacted` lines embed whole
histories. Never print a whole line. Check size first:
```bash
F=~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-....jsonl
wc -lc "$F"
awk '{ if (length($0) > 100000) print NR, length($0) }' "$F"
```
With `jq`:
```bash
head -1 "$F" | jq '.payload | {id, cwd, originator, cli_version, model_provider, thread_source, git}' # identity
jq -r '.type + "/" + (.payload.type // "")' "$F" | sort | uniq -c # census
jq -r 'select(.type=="event_msg" and .payload.type=="user_message") | "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\(.payload.message[0:160])"' "$F" # human prompts
jq -r 'select(.type=="response_item" and .payload.type=="message" and .payload.role=="user")
| "\(input_line_number)\t\(.timestamp)\t\((.payload.content[0].text // "")[0:160])"' "$F" # human prompts, fallback when the line above returns nothing; skip rows whose text starts with a `<tag>`
jq -r 'select(.type=="turn_context") | "\(.timestamp)\t\(.payload.model)\t\(.payload.effort)"' "$F" # model per turn
jq -c 'select(.type=="response_item" and (.payload.type=="function_call" or .payload.type=="custom_tool_call"))
| {line:input_line_number, name:.payload.name, args:((.payload.arguments // .payload.input)|tostring|.[0:120])}' "$F" # tool calls
jq -c 'select(.payload.type=="task_complete" or .payload.type=="turn_aborted") | {ts:.timestamp, type:.payload.type, ms:.payload.duration_ms}' "$F" # turn timing
jq -c 'select(.payload.type=="token_count") | {ts:.timestamp, t:.payload.info.total_token_usage}' "$F" # tokens (cumulative)
grep -n '"type":"compacted"\|"context_compacted"' "$F" | cut -d: -f1 # compaction line numbers
grep -n 'SKILL\.md' "$F" | cut -d: -f1 # skill-read line numbers
sed -n '123p' "$F" | jq -c '{ts:.timestamp, type, p:(.payload|tostring|.[0:400])}' # one line, trimmed
```
Find a thread's subagent rollouts (filenames only, never content):
```bash
grep -l '"parent_thread_id":"<thread-id>"' ~/.codex/sessions/*/*/*/rollout-*.jsonl
```
A subagent rollout can carry no `event_msg` `user_message` at all — the
parent agent's dispatch prompt instead shows up as a `response_item`
`message` with `role:"user"`. If a `user_message` event is present, it is
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# Other harnesses: discover, then report what you found
This file is for any harness without a verified reference in this
directory. You know your own harness better than this file does. Use that
knowledge, and write down exactly what you found so the report reader can
judge it.
## Procedure
1. **Ask the harness.** Many harnesses expose a session or history command
(`<harness> session list`, `/sessions`, a "resume" picker). Use it to get
the session id and, if shown, the file path.
2. **Look under the harness's config directory** (`~/.<harness>/`,
`~/.config/<harness>/`, `~/.local/share/<harness>/`) for `sessions`,
`history`, `chats`, `threads`, or `projects` directories holding `.jsonl`
or `.json` files.
3. **Confirm a candidate** by extracting its first human message with a
size-safe command (`head -c 2000`, or `jq` on the first record) and
matching it to what your human partner remembers. Never print whole
lines; treat every candidate like the verified stores: `wc -lc` and a
long-line check before anything else.
4. **Map the fields you need** by reading a handful of records with `jq -c
'keys'` or `head -c`: human prompt, assistant text, tool call and result,
model, harness version, timestamps, subagent linkage, compaction.
5. **Record in the case file and the report's coverage notes**: the store
path, the layout you inferred, which of the fields above you could and
could not find, and your confidence. Field-level claims in the report
are marked "inferred from the file, not a documented format".
6. **If you cannot find the store**, say so and ask your human partner for
the path. Do not guess a layout from another harness.

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# Superpowers session diagnosis bundle
Session: <session-id>
Harness: <name> <version> Superpowers: <version> (<sha or "not a checkout">)
Redaction level: skeleton | evidence | full
Built: <ISO timestamp>
## What this is
A scrubbed record of a coding-agent session in which superpowers was
installed and something went wrong, prepared so that an agent or person
who was not present can decide whether superpowers contributed and, if so,
what to change. The report inside states what happened with `path:line`
evidence. By design it contains no diagnosis of superpowers and no proposed
fix; that is the reader's job.
## Files
- `report.md` — the diagnosis report (problem statement, verdict,
environment, sessions, timeline, findings, involvement, coverage notes).
- `case.md` — the case file the analysts worked from.
- `environment.json` — machine-readable copy of the environment section.
- `timeline.md` — the per-turn timeline.
- `findings/<dimension>.md` — raw analyst findings per dimension.
- `transcripts/<session-id>.md` — condensed per-turn rendering of each
examined session (never the raw JSONL). At *skeleton* level tool-result
bodies are replaced by `[tool result: <tool>, <bytes> bytes, exit <code>]`;
at *evidence* level bodies are kept only for events cited in findings; at
*full* level all bodies are kept.
- `scrub-log.md` — every placeholder used and its category (never the
original value).
## How to read it
Start with `report.md` §12, then §7 (involvement) and the evidence lines
it cites, then the matching turns in `transcripts/`. `path:line` references
point at the original files on the reporter's machine; the same line
numbers are preserved in the condensed transcripts as `[L<n>]` markers.
## Redaction
Placeholders look like `<EMAIL-1>`, `<PERSON-2>`, `<SECRET-3>`, `<HOST-4>`,
`<REPO-5>`, `<ORG-6>`, `<PROPRIETARY-7>`; home paths are rewritten to `~/…`. The same placeholder
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# Case: <session-id>
Workspace: ~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/
Created: <ISO timestamp>
## Problem statement (agreed with your human partner)
<One paragraph. Names the session(s), the turn range if known, what was
expected, what happened, and the observable that matters: wall-clock,
tokens, repeated actions, a specific unexpected action.>
Goal is a superpowers bug report: yes | no
## Sessions
| Role | Session id | Absolute path | Lines | Bytes | Longest line (bytes) | First prompt (first 120 chars) | First timestamp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| main | | | | | | | |
| subagent | | | | | | | |
Rejected candidates: <id path why rejected>, or "none".
Session still running at read time: yes | no (mtime <ISO>, lines <N>)
## Environment
- OS: <name and version>
- Harness: <name> <version>
- Models seen: <model id where (main / subagent id)>
- Superpowers install root: <path>; version <x.y.z>; git sha <sha or "not a checkout">
- Skill files read or injected during the session:
| File (relative to install root) | sha1 (current file) | mtime newer than session? |
|---|---|---|
- Other plugins / extensions / MCP servers configured: <list, or "none found">
- Instruction files present (paths only): <list>
## Context-safety rules for every reader of these files
- Check `wc -lc` and long lines (`awk '{ if (length($0) > 100000) print NR, length($0) }'`) before reading.
- Never `cat` or `grep` for content. Line numbers and counts first
(`grep -n … | cut -d: -f1`), then small fields from specific lines
(`sed -n Np | jq -c '{…}'` or `| cut -c1-500`).
- Read-only: never modify, move, or delete a session file.
- In a subagent transcript, "user" is the parent agent.
## Harness reference to use
<references/claude-code-sessions.md | references/codex-sessions.md | references/other-harnesses.md>

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- [x] I searched existing issues and this is not a duplicate (searched: <query terms>; closest: <#n title, or "none">)
## Environment (required)
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Superpowers version | <version> (<sha or "not a checkout">) |
| Harness (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) | <harness> |
| Harness version | <version> |
| Your model + version | <model ids seen> |
| All plugins installed | <list> |
| OS + shell | <os version>, <shell> |
## Is this a Superpowers issue or a platform issue?
- [ ] I confirmed this issue does not occur without Superpowers installed
Not reproduced without superpowers. Evidence for involvement is below;
the reporter has not established cause.
## What happened?
<Problem statement, then the triage verdict, with `path:line` citations
rewritten as `transcript line <n>`.>
## Steps to reproduce
1. <first human prompt, scrubbed>
2. <the turns leading to the problem, one line each>
3. <the observable>
## Expected behavior
<from the problem statement>
## Actual behavior
<from the triage verdict>
## Debug log or conversation transcript
Session id(s): <ids>. A scrubbed bundle (redaction level: <level>) is
attached to this issue by the reporter, or available on request.
Superpowers involvement per the diagnosis report: <possible | likely>, with
evidence at <transcript lines>. This report does not propose a fix.
---
Filed with the `diagnosing-superpowers` skill. Model, harness, harness
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# Session diagnosis: <session-id>
Report path: ~/.superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers/<session-id>/report.md
Written: <ISO timestamp>
## 1. Problem statement (REQUIRED)
<Copied from the case file.>
## 2. Triage verdict (REQUIRED)
<What the evidence shows happened around the reported problem. Prose, with
`path:line` after every claim. State confidence: high / medium / low, and
what would raise it. No statement about what superpowers should do.>
## 3. Environment (REQUIRED)
- OS:
- Harness and version:
- Models seen:
- Superpowers install root / version / git sha:
- Skill files read or injected (sha1 table from the case file):
- Other plugins, extensions, MCP servers:
- Instruction files present (paths only):
## 4. Sessions examined (REQUIRED)
| Role | Session id | Absolute path | Lines | Bytes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rejected candidates: <id path why>, or "none".
## 5. Timeline (REQUIRED)
One row per human-typed prompt. Events column lists skills invoked,
subagents dispatched, compaction, errors, resumes, aborts.
| Turn | Line | Time | Request (one line) | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
## 6. Findings (REQUIRED, one subsection per dimension)
Each finding:
```
- finding: <one sentence>
evidence: <path:line> — "<short quote>"
turns: <first><last>
confidence: high | medium | low
```
A dimension with nothing to report says `none found — checked: <what was checked>`.
### 6.1 Skill timeline
### 6.2 Plan adherence
### 6.3 Repeated work
### 6.4 Stumbles
### 6.5 Quality evidence
### 6.6 Request conflicts
### 6.7 Cost and time
### 6.8 Other plugins and skills used
## 7. Superpowers involvement (REQUIRED)
not indicated | possible | likely
Evidence lines: <path:line list>. This section states involvement only. It
does not name a defect and does not propose a change.
## 8. Coverage notes (REQUIRED)
- Not read: <ranges, files, and why>
- Harness features unavailable: <list or none>
- Session was in progress at read time: yes/no
- For your human partner to double-check: <list or none>
## 9. Similar sessions (only when requested)
| Session id | Path | Date | Harness | Matched | Did not match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|

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git worktree prune # Self-healing: clean up any stale registrations
```
**If removal is refused** (`contains modified or untracked files`): the
worktree holds files that exist nowhere else — uncommitted plans, notes,
or scratch work. Never `--force` on your own initiative. Show your human
partner what is at stake and ask:
```bash
git -C "$WORKTREE_PATH" status --porcelain -uall
```
```
Worktree removal refused — these files were never committed:
<file list>
1. Commit them to <branch> before cleanup
2. Move them into <main repo root>
3. Delete them (unrecoverable)
Which?
```
Carry out the choice, then remove the worktree.
**Otherwise:** The host environment owns this workspace — leave it in
place. If your platform provides a workspace-exit tool, use it.
@@ -219,7 +196,6 @@ place. If your platform provides a workspace-exit tool, use it.
| "'Yeah, get rid of it' counts as confirmation" | Only the typed word `discard` authorizes deletion. |
| "The PR is up, so the worktree is clutter now" | PR feedback gets fixed in that worktree. It stays until the work lands. |
| "This other worktree looks stale — I'll clean it too" | Clean up only worktrees under `.worktrees/` or `worktrees/`. Everything else belongs to the host. |
| "Removal refused — `--force` is just finishing the cleanup" | The refusal means files exist only in that worktree. `--force` destroys them permanently. Show your human partner and ask. |
| "The merged-result failure is probably flaky" | A failing merged result stops everything. Branch and worktree stay put while you investigate. |
| "The base branch is obviously main" | Confirm the fork point or ask. Merging into the wrong base is expensive to undo. |
| "The push was rejected — force-push will fix it" | A rejected push means the remote moved. Investigate; force-push only on your human partner's explicit request. |

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that happens, recover from `git log`.
Read the plan once, note its context and Global Constraints, and create a
todo per task. If the plan names a Spec, read that too: the spec is the
authority the plan argues from, and conflicts inside the plan resolve
against it. A plan with no reachable spec gets a ledger note saying so —
rulings made without one are provisional.
todo per task.
Before dispatching Task 1, scan the plan once for conflicts, writing down
what you checked as you check it:

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Warnings or other noise in the implementer's reported test output are
findings — test output should be pristine.
Evidence you cannot see is not evidence that doesn't exist. If the
report or its test evidence looks truncated, or you cannot locate the
results it claims, re-read the file at its stated path — and if it is
genuinely missing or garbled, report that as a gap for the controller.
Re-running the suite to regenerate what you failed to read is not
verification; illegibility of the evidence is not invalidation of it.
## Part 1: Spec Compliance
Compare the diff against What Was Requested:

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- Codex: `references/codex-tools.md`
- Pi: `references/pi-tools.md`
- Antigravity: `references/antigravity-tools.md`
- Hermes Agent: `references/hermes-tools.md`
## User Instructions

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default_subagent_reasoning_effort = "medium"
```
## Compaction sheds these instructions
Context compaction replaces your transcript with a summary that keeps
your progress but not your working instructions — the first
post-compaction dispatch is where routing drift starts, and once one
bare spawn lands, the broken pattern becomes its own precedent. The
plugin ships a compaction re-injection hook (`hooks/hooks-codex.json`,
Codex 0.145+) that restores the bootstrap after every compaction; it
needs one-time trust approval, so if you never see a
`<CONTEXT_RESTORED>` block after a compaction, tell your human partner
the hook may be untrusted or unsupported on this version. Without it,
re-ground yourself: when a summary appears in your context, re-read
this file and the SKILL.md of the skill you are mid-way through
executing before your next dispatch, and trust the ledger over your
summarized memory of what happened.
## Environment Detection
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# Hermes Agent Tool Mapping
Skills speak in actions ("dispatch a subagent", "create a todo", "read a file"). On Hermes Agent these resolve to the tools below.
## Tools
| Action skills request | Hermes tool |
|---|---|
| Read a file | `read_file` |
| Create a new file | `write_file` |
| Edit a file (targeted patch) | `patch` |
| Run a shell command | `terminal` |
| Search file contents | `search_files` |
| Find files by name | `terminal` with `find` |
| Fetch a URL / read a webpage | `web_extract(urls=[...])` |
| Search the web | `web_search(query=...)` |
| Dispatch a subagent | `delegate_task(goal=..., context=..., toolsets=[...], role="leaf")` |
| Task tracking | `todo` tool |
| Invoke a skill | `skill_view("skill-name")` |
## Instructions file
When a skill mentions "your instructions file," on Hermes Agent this is **`AGENTS.md`** in the project directory, or **`SOUL.md`** globally at `~/.hermes/SOUL.md`.
## Invoking a skill
Hermes Agent has a `skills` toolset with `skill_view` and `skills_list` tools.
To invoke a superpowers skill, use:
```
skill_view("brainstorming")
skill_view("test-driven-development")
```
If `skill_view` cannot find a superpowers skill (it may not appear in the catalog
until the plugin fully registers it), fall back to reading the SKILL.md directly:
```
read_file(path="~/.hermes/plugins/superpowers/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md")
```
This fallback is the same mechanism used by other harnesses without native skill loading.
## Subagent dispatch
Use `delegate_task` to spawn isolated subagents for parallel or sequential workstreams:
```
delegate_task(goal="...", context="...", toolsets=[...], role="leaf")
```
If `delegate_task` is unavailable, do the work inline rather than inventing tool calls.
## Task tracking
Use the `todo` tool for task tracking within a session. For multi-agent task boards, use `hermes kanban` CLI if available. Treat older `TodoWrite` references as the task-tracking action.

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@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@ independently testable deliverable.
**Tech Stack:** [Key technologies/libraries]
**Spec:** [path to the spec/design doc this plan implements — the plan
argues from the spec, so the spec travels with it; executors read both]
## Global Constraints
[The spec's project-wide requirements — version floors, dependency limits,

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@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@
* Requires: graphviz (dot) installed on system
*/
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import { execFileSync } from 'child_process';
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');
const { execSync } = require('child_process');
function extractDotBlocks(markdown) {
const blocks = [];
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ ${bodies.join('\n\n')}
function renderToSvg(dotContent) {
try {
return execFileSync('dot', ['-Tsvg'], {
return execSync('dot -Tsvg', {
input: dotContent,
encoding: 'utf-8',
maxBuffer: 10 * 1024 * 1024
@@ -107,10 +107,9 @@ function main() {
process.exit(1);
}
// Check if dot is available. Run the binary directly rather than probing
// with `which`, which is not a command on Windows.
// Check if dot is available
try {
execFileSync('dot', ['-V'], { stdio: 'ignore' });
execSync('which dot', { encoding: 'utf-8' });
} catch {
console.error('Error: graphviz (dot) not found. Install with:');
console.error(' brew install graphviz # macOS');

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@@ -52,25 +52,37 @@ if not plugin_manifest.exists():
manifest = json.loads(plugin_manifest.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
assert_equal(manifest.get("name"), plugin.get("name"), "plugin manifest name")
# Codex auto-discovers a plugin's hooks/hooks.json whenever the Codex manifest
# has no `hooks` field: load_plugin_hooks falls back to a hardcoded
# DEFAULT_HOOKS_CONFIG_FILE = "hooks/hooks.json" and registers it. That file is
# the Claude Code SessionStart hook, it is tracked in this repo, and this
# marketplace installs the whole repo root (source url "./"), so on Codex the
# fallback re-registers the SessionStart hook and its install-time trust prompt.
# Declaring an empty inline hooks object ({}) parses as an empty inline hook set
# and suppresses the auto-discovery. An absent field, an empty array ([]), and
# an empty inline list all collapse back to the fallback, so the value must be
# exactly an empty object.
# The Codex manifest must declare its hooks explicitly. An absent field makes
# load_plugin_hooks fall back to a hardcoded DEFAULT_HOOKS_CONFIG_FILE =
# "hooks/hooks.json" — the Claude Code SessionStart hook, which injects the
# bootstrap at startup and must not run on Codex. The explicit pointer both
# registers the Codex compaction re-injection hook and overrides that fallback.
hooks_config = repo_root / "hooks" / "hooks.json"
if not hooks_config.exists():
raise AssertionError("hooks/hooks.json must exist (Claude Code SessionStart hook)")
assert_equal(
manifest.get("hooks"),
{},
"Codex manifest must declare empty hooks {} to suppress hooks/hooks.json auto-discovery",
"./hooks/hooks-codex.json",
"Codex manifest must point hooks at the Codex hook config (an absent field "
"falls back to auto-discovering the Claude Code hooks/hooks.json)",
)
codex_hooks_path = repo_root / "hooks" / "hooks-codex.json"
if not codex_hooks_path.exists():
raise AssertionError("hooks/hooks-codex.json must exist (Codex manifest points at it)")
codex_hooks = json.loads(codex_hooks_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
session_start = codex_hooks["hooks"]["SessionStart"]
assert_equal(len(session_start), 1, "Codex SessionStart hook group count")
assert_equal(session_start[0].get("matcher"), "compact", "Codex hook matcher")
entry = session_start[0]["hooks"][0]
assert_equal(entry.get("type"), "command", "Codex hook type")
command = entry.get("command", "")
if "${PLUGIN_ROOT}" not in command or not command.endswith("session-start-codex"):
raise AssertionError(
f"Codex hook command must run session-start-codex via ${{PLUGIN_ROOT}}: {command!r}"
)
print("Codex marketplace manifest looks good")
PY

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@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ tar_extracted="$TEST_ROOT/tar-extracted"
write_metadata_fixture "$metadata_source"
source_hooks="$(python3 -c 'import json; print(json.load(open("'"$REPO_ROOT"'/.codex-plugin/plugin.json")).get("hooks"))')"
assert_equals "$source_hooks" "{}" "source Codex manifest suppresses local hook auto-discovery"
assert_equals "$source_hooks" "./hooks/hooks-codex.json" "source Codex manifest declares the Codex hook config"
if output="$("$SCRIPT_UNDER_TEST" --allow-dirty --metadata-source "$metadata_source" --output "$archive" 2>&1)"; then
pass "package script exits successfully"
@@ -163,10 +163,13 @@ assert_contains "$output" "SHA-256:" "reports archive checksum"
extract_archive "$archive" "$extracted"
archive_paths="$(list_archive "$archive" | normalize_archive_paths)"
unexpected_pattern='(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)'
unexpected_pattern='(^superpowers/|^\.agents/|^hooks/hooks\.json$|^hooks/hooks-cursor\.json$|^hooks/session-start$|package\.json$|^\.git|^\.pytest_cache|^\.ruff_cache|^scripts/|^tests/|^docs/|^evals/|^lib/|^\.claude|^\.cursor|^\.kimi|^\.opencode|^\.pi|^AGENTS\.md$|^CLAUDE\.md$|^GEMINI\.md$|^RELEASE-NOTES\.md$|^CHANGELOG\.md$)'
assert_not_matches "$archive_paths" "$unexpected_pattern" "archive excludes source-only paths"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" ".codex-plugin/plugin.json" "archive includes Codex manifest"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" "skills/brainstorming/SKILL.md" "archive includes skills"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" "hooks/hooks-codex.json" "archive includes Codex hook config"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" "hooks/session-start-codex" "archive includes Codex hook script"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" "hooks/run-hook.cmd" "archive includes hook runner"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" "skills/brainstorming/agents/openai.yaml" "archive includes OpenAI skill metadata"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" "assets/app-icon.png" "archive includes app icon"
assert_contains "$archive_paths" "assets/superpowers-small.svg" "archive includes composer icon"

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@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Validate the Devin CLI integration. `devin plugins install obra/superpowers`
# reads `.devin-plugin/plugin.json` and auto-discovers the co-located `skills/`
# directory; Devin CLI surfaces every installed skill's name + description in
# the system prompt at session start and invokes them via its native `skill`
# tool, and its system prompt already documents its own tools (subagent
# profiles, todo tracking, question prompts), so there is no hook, injector,
# or tool-mapping scaffold to test. What IS Devin-specific is the manifest.
#
# Mirrors tests/kimi/test-plugin-manifest.sh. CI-safe: does not require
# `devin` installed.
set -euo pipefail
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
MANIFEST="$REPO_ROOT/.devin-plugin/plugin.json"
fail() { echo "FAIL: $*" >&2; exit 1; }
echo "test-devin-plugin: checking Devin CLI manifest"
# --- Manifest is valid and matches the repo version -------------------------
[ -f "$MANIFEST" ] || fail "manifest missing at $MANIFEST"
python3 - "$MANIFEST" <<'PY'
import json
import sys
from pathlib import Path
manifest_path = Path(sys.argv[1])
manifest = json.loads(manifest_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
repo_root = manifest_path.parents[1]
if manifest.get("name") != "superpowers":
raise AssertionError(f"plugin name: expected 'superpowers', got {manifest.get('name')!r}")
package = json.loads((repo_root / "package.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
if manifest.get("version") != package.get("version"):
raise AssertionError(
f"manifest version {manifest.get('version')!r} != package.json version {package.get('version')!r}"
)
# Devin CLI plugins carry skills only (auto-discovered from ./skills/); the
# manifest supports metadata + dependency lists, nothing executable.
unsupported = ["skills", "hooks", "commands", "sessionStart", "contextFileName", "inject"]
present = sorted(field for field in unsupported if field in manifest)
if present:
raise AssertionError("unsupported Devin manifest fields present: " + ", ".join(present))
version_config = json.loads((repo_root / ".version-bump.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
entries = version_config.get("files")
if not isinstance(entries, list) or not any(
entry.get("path") == ".devin-plugin/plugin.json" and entry.get("field") == "version"
for entry in entries
if isinstance(entry, dict)
):
raise AssertionError(".version-bump.json must update .devin-plugin/plugin.json version")
print("Devin plugin manifest looks good")
PY
echo "PASS: Devin CLI plugin valid (manifest)"

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@@ -1,127 +0,0 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Structural checks for skills/diagnosing-superpowers. Behavior is tested by
# scenario evals kept by the maintainer; this script only checks the things a
# shell can check: frontmatter, referenced files exist, no local paths or
# names leaked into shipped files, SKILL.md word budget.
set -u
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
SKILL_DIR="$REPO_ROOT/skills/diagnosing-superpowers"
SKILL_MD="$SKILL_DIR/SKILL.md"
WORD_BUDGET=900
PASSES=0
FAILURES=0
pass() { echo " [PASS] $1"; PASSES=$((PASSES + 1)); }
fail() { echo " [FAIL] $1"; FAILURES=$((FAILURES + 1)); }
echo "diagnosing-superpowers structure"
# --- SKILL.md frontmatter -------------------------------------------------
if [ -f "$SKILL_MD" ]; then
pass "SKILL.md exists"
frontmatter="$(awk 'NR==1 && $0!="---"{exit} NR>1 && $0=="---"{exit} NR>1{print}' "$SKILL_MD")"
if printf '%s\n' "$frontmatter" | grep -q '^name: diagnosing-superpowers$'; then
pass "frontmatter name is diagnosing-superpowers"
else
fail "frontmatter name is diagnosing-superpowers"
fi
description="$(printf '%s\n' "$frontmatter" | awk '/^description:/{sub(/^description:[ ]*/,""); print; found=1; next} found && /^[ ]/{print} found && !/^[ ]/{exit}' | tr '\n' ' ')"
if printf '%s' "$description" | grep -q '^Use when'; then
pass "description starts with 'Use when'"
else
fail "description starts with 'Use when' (got: ${description:0:60})"
fi
if [ "${#description}" -le 1024 ]; then
pass "description under 1024 characters"
else
fail "description under 1024 characters (${#description})"
fi
for banned in "dispatch" "then" "step"; do
if printf '%s' "$description" | grep -qiw "$banned"; then
fail "description contains workflow word '$banned'"
else
pass "description avoids workflow word '$banned'"
fi
done
# --- word budget --------------------------------------------------------
body_words="$(awk 'BEGIN{fm=0} NR==1 && $0=="---"{fm=1; next} fm==1 && $0=="---"{fm=2; next} fm==2{print}' "$SKILL_MD" | wc -w | tr -d ' ')"
if [ "$body_words" -le "$WORD_BUDGET" ]; then
pass "SKILL.md body within $WORD_BUDGET words ($body_words)"
else
fail "SKILL.md body within $WORD_BUDGET words ($body_words)"
fi
# --- required sections --------------------------------------------------
for heading in "## Hard rules" "## Red Flags"; do
if grep -q "^$heading" "$SKILL_MD"; then
pass "SKILL.md has section '$heading'"
else
fail "SKILL.md has section '$heading'"
fi
done
# --- every referenced skill file exists --------------------------------
while IFS= read -r ref; do
if [ -f "$SKILL_DIR/$ref" ]; then
pass "referenced file exists: $ref"
else
fail "referenced file exists: $ref"
fi
done < <(grep -o '\(references\|prompts\|templates\)/[A-Za-z0-9._-]*\.md' "$SKILL_MD" | sort -u)
else
fail "SKILL.md exists"
fi
# --- expected files -------------------------------------------------------
expected_files=(
references/claude-code-sessions.md
references/codex-sessions.md
references/other-harnesses.md
prompts/skill-timeline.md
prompts/plan-adherence.md
prompts/repeated-work.md
prompts/stumbles.md
prompts/quality-evidence.md
prompts/request-conflicts.md
prompts/cost-and-time.md
prompts/scrub.md
prompts/scrub-audit.md
prompts/similar-session.md
templates/case.md
templates/report.md
templates/bundle-README.md
templates/issue.md
)
for rel in "${expected_files[@]}"; do
if [ -f "$SKILL_DIR/$rel" ]; then
pass "expected file present: $rel"
else
fail "expected file present: $rel"
fi
done
# --- no local paths or names in shipped files ----------------------------
leaks="$(grep -rn -E '/Users/|/home/|jesse' "$SKILL_DIR" "$SCRIPT_DIR" --exclude=test-skill-structure.sh 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -z "$leaks" ]; then
pass "no machine-specific paths or names in shipped files (skills + tests)"
else
fail "no machine-specific paths or names in shipped files (skills + tests)"
printf '%s\n' "$leaks" | head -10 | sed 's/^/ /'
fi
# --- "the user" never appears in skill prose -----------------------------
user_hits="$(grep -rn -i 'the user' "$SKILL_DIR" --include='*.md' 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -z "$user_hits" ]; then
pass "skill files say 'your human partner', not 'the user'"
else
fail "skill files say 'your human partner', not 'the user'"
printf '%s\n' "$user_hits" | head -10 | sed 's/^/ /'
fi
echo
echo "Passed: $PASSES Failed: $FAILURES"
[ "$FAILURES" -eq 0 ]

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@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from unittest.mock import MagicMock
@pytest.fixture
def mock_ctx():
ctx = MagicMock()
ctx._hooks = {}
ctx._skills = {}
def register_hook(event, fn):
ctx._hooks[event] = fn
def register_skill(name, path):
# Mimic hermes' real register_skill, which calls path.exists() and
# therefore breaks on a str (the bug that silently disabled the whole
# plugin, found 2026-07-23). Keeping that fidelity here means a
# regression to str paths fails these tests instead of failing
# silently inside hermes.
if not isinstance(path, Path):
raise AttributeError(
f"register_skill requires a pathlib.Path, got {type(path).__name__}"
)
ctx._skills[name] = path
ctx.register_hook.side_effect = register_hook
ctx.register_skill.side_effect = register_skill
return ctx

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@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
import importlib
import os
import sys
import pytest
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath(
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../../.hermes-plugin")
))
BOOTSTRAP_MARKER = "superpowers:using-superpowers bootstrap for hermes"
# Hermes spills injected context over 10,000 chars to a file, which breaks
# inline injection semantics. The bootstrap must stay under it with margin.
HERMES_CONTEXT_SPILL_LIMIT = 10_000
def _load():
if "__init__" in sys.modules:
del sys.modules["__init__"]
return importlib.import_module("__init__")
def _bootstrap():
m = _load()
return m._build_bootstrap(m._skills_dir())
class TestStripFrontmatter:
def test_strips_yaml_block(self):
m = _load()
content = "---\nname: foo\ndescription: bar\n---\n# Body\nContent here"
assert m._strip_frontmatter(content) == "# Body\nContent here"
def test_no_frontmatter_returns_trimmed_content(self):
m = _load()
content = "# No frontmatter\nJust content"
assert m._strip_frontmatter(content) == "# No frontmatter\nJust content"
def test_strips_surrounding_whitespace_from_body(self):
m = _load()
content = "---\nname: foo\n---\n\n\n# Body\n\n"
assert m._strip_frontmatter(content) == "# Body"
class TestSkillsDirResolution:
def test_repo_layout_resolves(self):
# The repo checkout IS the git-clone layout: .hermes-plugin/ and
# skills/ are siblings, so resolution must succeed from here.
m = _load()
skills = m._skills_dir()
assert os.path.isfile(
os.path.join(skills, "using-superpowers", "SKILL.md")
)
class TestBootstrapContent:
def test_marker_and_wrapper(self):
content = _bootstrap()
assert BOOTSTRAP_MARKER in content
assert content.startswith("<EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>")
assert content.rstrip().endswith("</EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>")
def test_contains_using_superpowers_body(self):
content = _bootstrap()
# A distinctive line from the skill body proves the real SKILL.md was
# embedded, not a stub.
assert "You have superpowers" in content
assert "## The Rule" in content
def test_frontmatter_stripped(self):
content = _bootstrap()
assert "---\nname:" not in content
def test_tool_mapping_sourced_from_reference_file(self):
m = _load()
content = _bootstrap()
ref = os.path.join(
m._skills_dir(), "using-superpowers", "references", "hermes-tools.md"
)
with open(ref, encoding="utf-8") as f:
ref_text = f.read().strip()
# The mapping is included verbatim from the reference file — the
# single source, not a drift-prone inline copy.
assert ref_text in content
assert "read_file" in content
def test_skill_view_guidance_present(self):
content = _bootstrap()
assert 'skill_view("superpowers:brainstorming")' in content
def test_under_hermes_context_spill_limit(self):
content = _bootstrap()
assert len(content) < HERMES_CONTEXT_SPILL_LIMIT, (
f"bootstrap is {len(content)} chars; hermes spills injected "
f"context over {HERMES_CONTEXT_SPILL_LIMIT} to a file, which "
"breaks inline injection"
)

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@@ -1,142 +0,0 @@
import importlib
import importlib.util
import os
import shutil
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
# Point at the plugin directory
_PLUGIN_DIR = os.path.abspath(
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "../../.hermes-plugin")
)
sys.path.insert(0, _PLUGIN_DIR)
BOOTSTRAP_MARKER = "superpowers:using-superpowers bootstrap for hermes"
def _load_plugin():
"""Re-import plugin module fresh."""
if "__init__" in sys.modules:
del sys.modules["__init__"]
return importlib.import_module("__init__")
def _fire_pre_llm(ctx, **kwargs):
hook = ctx._hooks["pre_llm_call"]
defaults = {
"session_id": "s1",
"user_message": "hi",
"conversation_history": [],
"is_first_turn": False,
"model": "test-model",
"platform": "cli",
}
defaults.update(kwargs)
return hook(**defaults)
class TestPluginRegistration:
def test_register_attaches_only_pre_llm_call_hook(self, mock_ctx):
plugin = _load_plugin()
plugin.register(mock_ctx)
assert list(mock_ctx._hooks.keys()) == ["pre_llm_call"]
def test_register_registers_every_stock_skill_as_path(self, mock_ctx):
plugin = _load_plugin()
plugin.register(mock_ctx)
# The conftest mock raises on non-Path (mirroring hermes' real
# register_skill), so reaching these asserts proves every
# registration passed a pathlib.Path.
assert "using-superpowers" in mock_ctx._skills
assert "brainstorming" in mock_ctx._skills
for name, path in mock_ctx._skills.items():
assert isinstance(path, Path)
assert path.name == "SKILL.md"
assert path.parent.name == name
assert path.is_file()
def test_registered_skills_match_skill_directories(self, mock_ctx):
plugin = _load_plugin()
plugin.register(mock_ctx)
skills_root = plugin._skills_dir()
expected = {
entry
for entry in os.listdir(skills_root)
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(skills_root, entry, "SKILL.md"))
}
assert set(mock_ctx._skills.keys()) == expected
class TestBootstrapInjection:
def test_first_turn_returns_bootstrap_context(self, mock_ctx):
plugin = _load_plugin()
plugin.register(mock_ctx)
result = _fire_pre_llm(mock_ctx, is_first_turn=True)
assert isinstance(result, dict)
content = result["context"]
assert BOOTSTRAP_MARKER in content
assert content.startswith("<EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>")
assert content.rstrip().endswith("</EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>")
def test_later_turns_return_none(self, mock_ctx):
plugin = _load_plugin()
plugin.register(mock_ctx)
assert _fire_pre_llm(mock_ctx, is_first_turn=False) is None
assert _fire_pre_llm(mock_ctx, is_first_turn=None) is None
def test_hook_tolerates_future_kwargs(self, mock_ctx):
plugin = _load_plugin()
plugin.register(mock_ctx)
result = _fire_pre_llm(
mock_ctx, is_first_turn=True, telemetry_schema_version=3
)
assert BOOTSTRAP_MARKER in result["context"]
class TestLayoutResolution:
def _stage(self, tmp_path, layout):
"""Copy the plugin module + a minimal skills tree in the given layout."""
src_skills = Path(_PLUGIN_DIR).parent / "skills"
if layout == "clone":
plugdir = tmp_path / "superpowers" / ".hermes-plugin"
else: # flat: module at the plugin dir root, skills nested inside it
plugdir = tmp_path / "superpowers"
skills = tmp_path / "superpowers" / "skills"
plugdir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
shutil.copy(Path(_PLUGIN_DIR) / "__init__.py", plugdir / "__init__.py")
for skill in ("using-superpowers", "brainstorming"):
shutil.copytree(src_skills / skill, skills / skill)
return plugdir
def _load_from(self, plugdir):
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(
f"hermes_plugin_test_{plugdir.parent.name}_{plugdir.name}",
plugdir / "__init__.py",
)
mod = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
spec.loader.exec_module(mod)
return mod
def test_clone_layout_resolves_sibling_skills(self, tmp_path, mock_ctx):
# git-clone install: .hermes-plugin/ and skills/ are siblings.
plugdir = self._stage(tmp_path, "clone")
mod = self._load_from(plugdir)
mod.register(mock_ctx)
assert "using-superpowers" in mock_ctx._skills
def test_flat_layout_resolves_nested_skills(self, tmp_path, mock_ctx):
# flattened install: module at the plugin dir root, skills/ inside it.
plugdir = self._stage(tmp_path, "flat")
mod = self._load_from(plugdir)
mod.register(mock_ctx)
assert "using-superpowers" in mock_ctx._skills
def test_missing_skills_raises_loudly(self, tmp_path, mock_ctx):
plugdir = tmp_path / "superpowers"
plugdir.mkdir(parents=True)
shutil.copy(Path(_PLUGIN_DIR) / "__init__.py", plugdir / "__init__.py")
mod = self._load_from(plugdir)
with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="cannot find the skills"):
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@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
HOOK_UNDER_TEST="$REPO_ROOT/hooks/session-start-codex"
CONFIG_UNDER_TEST="$REPO_ROOT/hooks/hooks-codex.json"
FAILURES=0
pass() {
echo " [PASS] $1"
}
fail() {
echo " [FAIL] $1"
FAILURES=$((FAILURES + 1))
}
# run_hook <stdin-payload> — echoes hook stdout; fails the calling test on
# non-zero exit. env -i mirrors the codex hook executor's clean environment.
run_hook() {
printf '%s' "$1" | env -i PATH="${PATH:-}" bash "$HOOK_UNDER_TEST"
}
echo "Codex SessionStart hook tests"
startup_payload='{"session_id":"s","hook_event_name":"SessionStart","model":"gpt-5.6-terra","source":"startup"}'
if output="$(run_hook "$startup_payload")" && [ -z "$output" ]; then
pass "source=startup emits nothing and exits 0"
else
fail "source=startup emits nothing and exits 0"
printf '%s\n' "$output" | head -3 | sed 's/^/ /'
fi
compact_payload='{"session_id":"s","hook_event_name":"SessionStart","model":"gpt-5.6-terra","source":"compact"}'
if output="$(run_hook "$compact_payload")"; then
ok=1
for needle in \
"<EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT>" \
"You have superpowers." \
"name: using-superpowers" \
"<CONTEXT_RESTORED>" \
"subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md" \
"references/codex-tools.md"; do
if [[ "$output" != *"$needle"* ]]; then
ok=0
echo " missing: $needle"
fi
done
if [ "$ok" -eq 1 ]; then
pass "source=compact emits bootstrap plus re-read addendum"
else
fail "source=compact emits bootstrap plus re-read addendum"
fi
else
fail "source=compact emits bootstrap plus re-read addendum (hook exited non-zero)"
fi
# Whitespace-tolerant source matching (serializers vary).
spaced_payload='{"hook_event_name":"SessionStart", "source" : "compact"}'
if output="$(run_hook "$spaced_payload")" && [[ "$output" == *"<CONTEXT_RESTORED>"* ]]; then
pass "whitespace around the source key still triggers injection"
else
fail "whitespace around the source key still triggers injection"
fi
if output="$(printf '' | env -i PATH="${PATH:-}" bash "$HOOK_UNDER_TEST")" && [ -z "$output" ]; then
pass "empty stdin fails open to no output, exit 0"
else
fail "empty stdin fails open to no output, exit 0"
fi
if output="$(run_hook 'not json at all {{{')" && [ -z "$output" ]; then
pass "garbage stdin fails open to no output, exit 0"
else
fail "garbage stdin fails open to no output, exit 0"
fi
# A compact mention inside some other field must not trigger injection.
decoy_payload='{"hook_event_name":"SessionStart","source":"startup","cwd":"/tmp/compact"}'
if output="$(run_hook "$decoy_payload")" && [ -z "$output" ]; then
pass "compact appearing outside the source field does not trigger"
else
fail "compact appearing outside the source field does not trigger"
fi
if node -e '
const config = JSON.parse(require("fs").readFileSync(process.argv[1], "utf8"));
const group = config.hooks.SessionStart[0];
if (group.matcher !== "compact") {
console.error(`hook matcher is ${JSON.stringify(group.matcher)}, expected "compact"`);
process.exit(1);
}
const entry = group.hooks[0];
if (entry.type !== "command") {
console.error(`hook type is ${JSON.stringify(entry.type)}, expected "command"`);
process.exit(1);
}
if (!entry.command.includes("${PLUGIN_ROOT}") || !/run-hook\.cmd" session-start-codex$/.test(entry.command)) {
console.error(`unexpected command shape: ${entry.command}`);
process.exit(1);
}
' "$CONFIG_UNDER_TEST"; then
pass "hooks-codex.json runs session-start-codex via \${PLUGIN_ROOT} on compact"
else
fail "hooks-codex.json runs session-start-codex via \${PLUGIN_ROOT} on compact"
fi
if [[ "$FAILURES" -gt 0 ]]; then
echo "STATUS: FAILED ($FAILURES failure(s))"
exit 1
fi
echo "STATUS: PASSED"

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
SCRIPT_SOURCE="$REPO_ROOT/scripts/bump-version.sh"
TEST_ROOT="$(mktemp -d)"
cleanup() {
rm -rf "$TEST_ROOT"
}
trap cleanup EXIT
fail() {
echo "FAIL: $*" >&2
exit 1
}
make_fixture() {
local repo="$1"
local yaml_body="$2"
mkdir -p "$repo/scripts" "$repo/.hermes-plugin"
cp "$SCRIPT_SOURCE" "$repo/scripts/bump-version.sh"
cat >"$repo/.version-bump.json" <<'JSON'
{
"files": [
{ "path": "package.json", "field": "version" },
{ "path": ".hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml", "field": "version" }
],
"audit": { "exclude": [] }
}
JSON
cat >"$repo/package.json" <<'JSON'
{
"name": "fixture",
"version": "1.2.3"
}
JSON
printf '%s\n' "$yaml_body" >"$repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml"
}
happy_repo="$TEST_ROOT/happy"
make_fixture "$happy_repo" $'name: superpowers\nversion: 1.2.3'
/bin/bash "$happy_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" --check >"$TEST_ROOT/check.out"
/bin/bash "$happy_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" --audit >"$TEST_ROOT/audit.out"
/bin/bash "$happy_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" 2.3.4 >"$TEST_ROOT/bump.out"
[[ "$(jq -r '.version' "$happy_repo/package.json")" == "2.3.4" ]] \
|| fail "JSON manifest was not bumped"
[[ "$(yq -r '.version' "$happy_repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml")" == "2.3.4" ]] \
|| fail "YAML manifest was not bumped"
jq -e '
any(.files[];
.path == ".hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml" and .field == "version")
' "$REPO_ROOT/.version-bump.json" >/dev/null \
|| fail "Hermes manifest is not registered"
invalid_repo="$TEST_ROOT/invalid"
make_fixture "$invalid_repo" $'name: superpowers\nversion: 123'
cp "$invalid_repo/package.json" "$TEST_ROOT/package.before"
cp "$invalid_repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml" "$TEST_ROOT/plugin.before"
if /bin/bash "$invalid_repo/scripts/bump-version.sh" 2.3.4 \
>"$TEST_ROOT/invalid.out" 2>&1; then
fail "bump accepted a non-string YAML version"
fi
cmp -s "$TEST_ROOT/package.before" "$invalid_repo/package.json" \
|| fail "JSON manifest changed before YAML validation failed"
cmp -s "$TEST_ROOT/plugin.before" "$invalid_repo/.hermes-plugin/plugin.yaml" \
|| fail "invalid YAML manifest changed"
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -u
SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
REPO_ROOT="$(cd "$SCRIPT_DIR/../.." && pwd)"
SCRIPT_UNDER_TEST="$REPO_ROOT/skills/writing-skills/render-graphs.js"
NODE_BIN="$(command -v node)"
PASSES=0
FAILURES=0
TEST_ROOT="$(mktemp -d)"
cleanup() {
rm -rf "$TEST_ROOT"
}
trap cleanup EXIT
pass() {
echo " [PASS] $1"
PASSES=$((PASSES + 1))
}
fail() {
echo " [FAIL] $1"
FAILURES=$((FAILURES + 1))
}
assert_contains() {
local haystack="$1"
local needle="$2"
local description="$3"
if printf '%s' "$haystack" | grep -Fq -- "$needle"; then
pass "$description"
else
fail "$description"
echo " expected to find: $needle"
fi
}
assert_not_contains() {
local haystack="$1"
local needle="$2"
local description="$3"
if printf '%s' "$haystack" | grep -Fq -- "$needle"; then
fail "$description"
echo " did not expect to find: $needle"
else
pass "$description"
fi
}
fixture="$TEST_ROOT/fixture-skill"
mkdir -p "$fixture" "$TEST_ROOT/empty-path"
cat >"$fixture/SKILL.md" <<'EOF'
---
name: fixture-skill
---
# Fixture Skill
```dot
digraph fixture_graph {
start -> end;
}
```
EOF
echo "Writing-skills render-graphs tests"
missing_dot_output="$(PATH="$TEST_ROOT/empty-path" "$NODE_BIN" "$SCRIPT_UNDER_TEST" "$fixture" 2>&1)"
missing_dot_status=$?
if [[ "$missing_dot_status" -ne 0 ]]; then
pass "missing Graphviz exits non-zero"
else
fail "missing Graphviz exits non-zero"
fi
assert_contains "$missing_dot_output" "Error: graphviz (dot) not found." "missing Graphviz reports install guidance"
assert_not_contains "$missing_dot_output" "ReferenceError: require is not defined" "script runs as an ES module"
render_output="$("$NODE_BIN" "$SCRIPT_UNDER_TEST" "$fixture" 2>&1)"
render_status=$?
if [[ "$render_status" -eq 0 ]]; then
pass "fixture diagram renders"
else
fail "fixture diagram renders"
printf '%s\n' "$render_output"
fi
assert_contains "$render_output" "Found 1 diagram(s)" "reports discovered diagram"
assert_contains "$render_output" "Rendered: fixture_graph.svg" "reports rendered SVG"
if [[ -f "$fixture/diagrams/fixture_graph.svg" ]]; then
pass "writes SVG output"
else
fail "writes SVG output"
fi
if [[ -f "$fixture/diagrams/fixture_graph.svg" ]] && grep -Fq "<svg" "$fixture/diagrams/fixture_graph.svg"; then
pass "SVG output has SVG markup"
else
fail "SVG output has SVG markup"
fi
echo
echo "Results: $PASSES passed, $FAILURES failed"
if [[ "$FAILURES" -gt 0 ]]; then
exit 1
fi