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ricardobeattoday at 12:16 AM1 replyview on HN

Does superpowers actually work? The main skill file doesn't inspire much confidence:

    "If you think there is even a 1% chance a skill might apply to what you are doing, you ABSOLUTELY MUST invoke the skill."

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CharlesWtoday at 12:55 AM

This kind of "overprompting" is one technique that even the best skills/agents use to compensate for under-invocation, which happens when more demure advisory language tends to be rationalized away by LLMs.

It shouldn't be your default, but should absolutely be tried when your skill/agent test suite displays evidence that it's not being reliably invoked without it.