superpowers-trae

Use when starting any conversation in Trae - establishes mandatory skill activation, Trae tool mapping, and workflow priority before any response or action

Use when completing tasks, implementing major features, or before merging to verify work meets requirements

Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session

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

Use when tests have arbitrary sleeps/timeouts, race conditions, flaky async behavior, or timing-dependent failures

Use after finding a root cause when adding validation at multiple layers would make the bug impossible or obvious

Use when a bug manifests deep in a stack and you need to trace backward to the original trigger

Use when writing or changing tests, adding mocks, or tempted to add test-only methods to production code

Use when testing skill behavior with RED-GREEN-REFACTOR pressure scenarios and subagents

Understand how ideas evolved over time to find old solutions for new problems and avoid repeating past failures

Dispatch to the right problem-solving technique based on how you're stuck