normalpowers

normalpowers

Give any LLM the power to ask the right question.

normalpowers is a portable prompt bundle that turns ChatGPT, Gemini, or any flavor of Claude into a patient interviewer who asks the right questions, surfaces unexamined assumptions, and walks you through rigorous thinking on any knowledge-work problem.

Works on any LLM — paste the master prompt and go. Claude Code users can install in one command.

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Built on the shoulders of superpowers

normalpowers is a fork of superpowers by Jesse Vincent. superpowers is the original — a Claude Code plugin that makes LLMs meaningfully smarter at software work by giving them a metacognitive layer: "before you act, check which skill applies."

Jesse's insight is the whole idea. We are deeply grateful the project exists.

What normalpowers changes:

• Target: every LLM, not just Claude Code. ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems, Claude Projects, Claude.ai free tier, Claude API, and anything else with a system-prompt slot.
• Scope: knowledge work, not software development. The skills we kept (brainstorming, writing-plans, verification-before-completion, writing-skills) were already domain-neutral. We re-exampled them for product, strategy, research, writing, ops, sales, and more.
• Stripped: test-driven-development, executing-plans (replaced by following-your-plan), using-git-worktrees, subagent-driven-development, requesting-code-review, dispatching-parallel-agents, finishing-a-development-branch, and all plugin/hook/tool-system machinery.

If you build software, use superpowers — it is tuned for that and sharper than anything we could offer. If you work on everything else, try normalpowers.

See docs/comparison-to-superpowers.md for a full side-by-side.

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What It Is

Eight skills that shape how your LLM approaches knowledge work:

Skill	Use when…
brainstorming	You're figuring out WHAT to build, write, decide, or plan. Before drafting.
writing-plans	You have a clear target and need to break it into executable steps.
following-your-plan	A plan exists and you're executing it.
systematic-problem-solving	Something is broken, underperforming, or unexpected. You want to understand why before fixing.
verification-before-completion	You're about to claim "done" or "ready". Verify with evidence first.
receiving-feedback	You got critique and need to evaluate and respond.
writing-skills	You want to author a new skill for your own workflow.
using-normalpowers	The entry-point skill every conversation starts with.

The LLM is instructed to check which skill applies before responding — even before asking clarifying questions. This is the whole trick.

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Install

Copy normalpowers.md from this repo. Paste it into whichever platform you use.

Install guide priority: Claude first (it's our internal stack), then ChatGPT and Gemini.

Claude Code — one-click install

/plugin install normalpowers@fastxyz

Or download normalpowers-v0.1.0.plugin for a local offline install:

/plugin install ./normalpowers-v0.1.0.plugin

For skill-compatible platforms, download normalpowers-v0.1.0.skill.

Claude.ai — Projects (recommended)