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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.

Use this Skill: https://skilld.dev/gh/obra/superpowers/diagnosing-superpowers

This session only. Nothing lands on disk.

promptsanalyst-common.md

≈396 tokens on demand. Your agent reads this file only when SKILL.md points to it.

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 discovered sources and record meanings to use, and the context-safety rules you must follow. Use the recorded meanings rather than repeating discovery or assuming a harness format.
  • RANGE (optional): a turn range or line range. If present, analyze only that range and say so in your Checked line.

Context safety: follow references/context-safety.md, named in CASE, on every file before reading it, and extract fields with the recorded commands or queries. "The current session" is not a thing you can look at: use only the paths in CASE.

Human prompts are the records the case file 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>

The dispatcher discards any finding without a path:line, so do not write one. If you found nothing, return - none found and the Checked line.

Source: SKILL.md on GitHub

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    The skill is a diagnostic tool for analyzing AI agent session transcripts. It follows security best practices by implementing robust context-safety measures to handle large logs, mandatory PII scrubbing for data privacy, and human-in-the-loop approval gates for all data export and external reporting actions. No malicious patterns, obfuscation, or unauthorized network operations were detected.

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    Risk: MEDIUM · 1 issue

Signed by skilld at 5bf4e78. This ties the file your Agent reads to that commit on GitHub. It does not review the instructions.

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