using-superpowers

Enforce a mandatory first response protocol that requires identifying, reading, and applying relevant skills before any other action. This prevents agents from overlooking available tools and ensures consistent skill leverage across all task domains.

Implement mandatory checklist integration by creating TodoWrite todos for every checklist item in your skill. This enforces thoroughness and creates traceability, ensuring no step gets rationalized away or accidentally omitted.

Apply strict, non-optional requirements across all domains: announce skill usage upfront, execute the skill file via the Skill tool, follow it exactly, and log TodoWrites for compliance tracking. This creates uniform enforcement regardless of task type.

Agents rationalize skipping steps through common excuses and lack accountability. Mandatory workflow enforcement with required announcements, skill file execution, and TodoWrite logging counters these patterns and ensures consistent compliance.

Yes, this skill guides actions at conversation start or task initiation. Trigger the mandatory first response protocol whenever you begin a new task or conversation, even if you're already partway through a project.

One mandatory workflow applies across all skill types and task domains. The protocol works universally by requiring skill identification, reading via the Skill tool, exact execution, and TodoWrite logging regardless of skill category.