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Skills

The agent skills I build with

Superstacks v6.1.1· Oct 2026

A skill is a folder of instructions an AI coding agent loads when the task calls for it: how to plan, test, review, or open a pull request. These are the twenty I use, packed as Superstacks, free under the MIT license.

20 skills · MIT license · 8 original, 12 adapted · maintained by

Install the whole pack

1. Add the marketplace (type it in Claude Code)

/plugin marketplace add KunanonJ/superstacks

2. Install the plugin

/plugin install superstacks@superstacks

Installs all 20 skills as one plugin, named superstacks.

Or ask your agent

Paste this into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor and let it follow the README.

Install the Superstacks skills from github.com/KunanonJ/superstacks using the steps in its README.

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Plan

6 skills

Understand the code and pressure-test the plan before writing any.

  • how

    Adapted from pstack (cursor/plugins)You invoke

    Use for how-does-X-work walkthroughs, placement, ownership, and layering questions before changing code.

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  • writing-plans

    Adapted from obra/superpowersRuns automatically

    Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code

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  • grilling

    Adapted from mattpocock/skillsRuns automatically

    Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan, decision, or idea, or uses any grill trigger phrases.

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  • grill-with-docs

    Adapted from mattpocock/skillsYou invoke

    Use when grilling a plan or design that should also produce ADRs and a glossary as you go.

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  • domain-modeling

    Adapted from mattpocock/skillsRuns automatically

    Use when discussing codebase terminology, writing or editing a GLOSSARY.md, or recording or editing an ADR.

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  • interrogate

    Adapted from pstack (cursor/plugins)You invoke

    Use for interrogate, adversarial review, multi-model review, challenge this, stress test this code, or find blind spots.

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Build

3 skills

Write the check first, then the code, and debug with evidence.

  • verify-loop

    OriginalRuns automatically

    Use when starting implementation or iterating a fix. Define a deterministic check for the acceptance criteria, run it red, then iterate until green.

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  • test-driven-development

    Adapted from obra/superpowersRuns automatically

    Use when implementing any feature or bugfix, before writing implementation code

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  • diagnosing-bugs

    Adapted from mattpocock/skillsRuns automatically

    Use when the user says diagnose or debug this, or reports something broken, throwing, failing, or slow.

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Verify and ship

3 skills

Prove it works, review it, and open a draft pull request.

  • verification-before-completion

    Adapted from obra/superpowersRuns automatically

    Use when about to claim work is complete, fixed, or passing. Run verification and paste output before any success claim.

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  • code-review

    Adapted from mattpocock/skillsRuns automatically

    Use when reviewing a branch, PR, or WIP since a commit, tag, or merge-base. Two-axis Standards and Spec review via parallel sub-agents.

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  • pr

    Adapted from mattpocock/skillsRuns automatically

    Use when writing a PR body.

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Operate and improve

8 skills

Run tickets end to end and turn repeated mistakes into guardrails.

  • ticket-pipeline

    OriginalYou invoke

    Use when running a ticket from discovery through a draft PR. Sequences how, plans, verify-loop, TDD, verification, review, optional interrogate, then pr.

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  • workflow-profile

    OriginalYou invoke

    Use when starting a ticket or choosing merge, review, trust_level, and pipeline order. Generic ticket refs, merge owner, and skill sequence.

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  • intake-triage

    OriginalYou invoke

    Use when a coordinator has a batch of bug reports, feedback, or alerts. Deduplicate, group, score two-way vs one-way doors, and write ticket briefs ready to dispatch.

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  • gardening

    OriginalYou invoke

    Use when finding small maintenance work. One concern per PR, each with a verify command and a small diff budget.

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  • sample-review

    OriginalYou invoke

    Use when sampling recently merged PRs against repo standards and CONSTRAINTS.md. Propose environment tightenings, not per-PR comments. Default 5 per day.

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  • steer-miner

    OriginalYou invoke

    Use when mining local agent transcripts the user points to. Find repeated human corrections and propose skills, lint rules, or constraints as a report. Never edit files.

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  • mistake-to-constraint

    OriginalYou invoke

    Use when a mistake repeats. Encode it as the strongest guard — type or runtime, lint, test, directory convention, then a rules line — and log it in CONSTRAINTS.md.

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  • writing-for-agents

    Adapted from mattpocock/skillsRuns automatically

    Use when creating or editing skills, or modifying AGENTS.md or other agent instruction files.

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Credits

12 skills are adapted from these MIT-licensed projects, pinned to a commit and patched where noted. Full notices are in THIRD_PARTY.md and pins in sources.lock.json.