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superpowers-learning-workflow

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Use when the user explicitly wants to capture lessons from completed work, persist durable project knowledge, or turn repeated patterns into reusable learning notes for future sessions.

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Superpowers Learning Workflow

Overview

Use this workflow after meaningful work to capture what should survive the current session. It is a lightweight, repo-owned learning loop inspired by reflective agent systems, but scoped for safe use inside normal project workflows.

This is an explicit opt-in workflow. Do not use it by default. Only use it when the user explicitly asks for this workflow, names this skill, or a repository policy explicitly requires it.

Workflow

  1. Review the recent work, decisions, and verification evidence.
  2. Classify what was learned into four buckets:
    • durable project facts
    • current working state
    • session outcome
    • reusable method or repeated pitfall
  3. Add required metadata for durable entries:
    • id
    • status
    • confidence
    • source
    • last_updated
    • review_after Do not mark an entry as verified if source is empty.
  4. If .superpowers-memory/ exists, update:
    • PROJECT_CONTEXT.md for durable facts
    • CURRENT_STATE.md for active state
    • DECISIONS.md for lasting decisions
    • KNOWN_FAILURES.md for repeated failure patterns
    • VERIFICATION_BASELINE.md for trusted verification rules
    • TEAM_PREFERENCES.md for durable team agreements
    • USER_PROFILE.md for durable user preferences that are not project facts
    • AGENT_NOTES.md for durable execution reminders that are not project facts
    • session-journal/ for the session summary
    • LEARNING_BACKLOG.md for reusable patterns that may deserve future workflows or skills
  5. If .superpowers-memory/ does not exist, tell the user to install the memory scaffold or keep the learning summary in a normal project doc.
  6. Check whether any backlog item is strong enough to recommend promotion into a checklist, project rule, workflow step, script, or skill draft.
  7. Review .superpowers-memory/SESSION_CLOSE_CHECKLIST.md before finishing the learning capture.
  8. Use scripts/suggest-superpowers-memory-updates.ps1 if it is unclear which memory surfaces should be updated from the current session signals.
  9. Prefer scripts/run-superpowers-memory-closeout.ps1 as the standard closeout helper when you want one command to review the checklist, get update suggestions, and optionally run validation.
  10. When memory files were updated, run scripts/validate-superpowers-memory.ps1 and include the result in the summary.
  11. Use scripts/search-superpowers-memory.ps1 when you need to confirm whether a pattern already exists in durable memory or recent journals.
  12. Summarize what was learned and what, if anything, should become a future rule, checklist, script, or skill.

When to Use

  • The user explicitly asks to capture lessons from the current session
  • The user explicitly names $superpowers-learning-workflow
  • The user wants to persist durable knowledge for future sessions
  • The user wants to turn repeated patterns into reusable learning notes
  • A repository policy explicitly requires reflective capture after meaningful work

Outputs

  • Updated .superpowers-memory/PROJECT_CONTEXT.md when durable facts changed
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/CURRENT_STATE.md
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/DECISIONS.md when durable decisions changed
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/KNOWN_FAILURES.md when repeated failure patterns were identified
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/VERIFICATION_BASELINE.md when trusted verification rules changed
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/TEAM_PREFERENCES.md when durable team agreements changed
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/USER_PROFILE.md when durable user preferences changed
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/AGENT_NOTES.md when durable execution reminders changed
  • New or updated session journal entry
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/LEARNING_BACKLOG.md for reusable lessons
  • Updated .superpowers-memory/SESSION_CLOSE_CHECKLIST.md only as a reference checklist, not as a session log
  • Memory validation evidence when memory was updated
  • Optional memory update suggestion evidence when the suggestion script was used
  • Optional closeout helper output when the closeout script was used
  • A short summary of what should be remembered next time

Guardrails

  • Do not write temporary TODO noise into PROJECT_CONTEXT.md
  • Do not turn a one-off fix into a reusable rule without a clear repeated pattern
  • Do not auto-edit the skill library itself unless the user explicitly asks for that separate step
  • Keep learning notes concise and actionable
  • Do not promote a backlog item without enough repeated evidence or cross-session value
  • Treat ready_for_promotion as a higher bar: expect repeated evidence, linked sources, and a reviewable promotion rationale