Run Tamirs Superpowers

run-tamirs-superpowers

tamirs-superpowers is a Claude Code plugin — pure Markdown, JSON, and Bash. There is no build step. The plugin runs inside every Claude Code session automatically. The "interactive surface" is the plugin's validation harness (make validate) and the smoke.sh driver in this directory.

Prerequisites

brew install shellcheck jq   # shellcheck for hook lint, jq for JSON checks
python3 -m pip install -q -r scripts/requirements-validate.txt  # PyYAML for frontmatter validator

Run (agent path) — smoke.sh

The driver runs a 7-category health check. Always run from repo root:

bash .claude/skills/run-tamirs-superpowers/smoke.sh

What it checks (all verified in this session):

Exit 0 = all 7 sections pass. Exit 1 = at least one FAIL (not WARN).

Expected clean output:

  PASS  make validate
  PASS  statusline.sh — output: [unknown] ctx:--
  PASS  plugin.json .name = tamirs-superpowers
  ...
  PASS: 31  |  WARN: 4  |  FAIL: 0
Plugin health: OK (warnings=4)

Known warnings (not failures): none when hooks/ contains only lifecycle scripts wired in hooks.json.

scripts/github-mcp.sh is wired via .mcp.json, not hooks.json.

Run (human path) — make validate

For a quick syntax check without the full smoke test:

make validate   # shellcheck + JSON + frontmatter
make lint       # shellcheck only

To run the full Claude Code plugin validator (requires claude CLI):

make plugin-validate

Statusline

The statusline script runs automatically in every Claude Code session. To test it in isolation:

bash scripts/statusline.sh

Expected output format: [<branch>] ctx:<n> | <model> | ...

Adding a skill

Skills live at skills/<domain>/<name>/SKILL.md. After adding or editing one:

make validate   # must pass before committing

Frontmatter fields required by the smoke test (in addition to name and description):

• allowed-tools: [...]
• when_to_use: "..." (user-invocable skills only)
• metadata.updated-date: "YYYY-MM-DD"

Gotchas

• statusLine in plugin.json must be an object — {"type": "command", "command": "..."} — not a string. Setting it to a plain string causes Claude Code to silently ignore it.
• make validate does not run claude plugin validate — the Makefile's validate target is local-only. The authoritative validator is claude plugin validate . (requires the CLI).
• set -euo pipefail in smoke scripts exits on first grep non-match — health check scripts must not use set -e; they need to complete all checks before reporting.
• find in skills/ returns skills/toolkit/skill-creator/SKILL.md with a /Users/ path — the workflow-agent-improved version has this; file it as a WARN, not FAIL, until it's cleaned.

Troubleshooting