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Installing Superpowers for Trae IDE

Prerequisites

Installation Steps

1. Clone Superpowers

git clone https://github.com/obra/superpowers.git ~/.trae/superpowers

2. Symlink Skills

Create a symlink so Trae's native skill discovery finds superpowers skills:

mkdir -p ~/.trae/skills
rm -rf ~/.trae/skills/superpowers
ln -s ~/.trae/superpowers/skills ~/.trae/skills/superpowers

3. Restart Trae IDE

Restart Trae IDE. Skills will be auto-discovered from ~/.trae/skills/superpowers/.

Verify by asking: "do you have superpowers?"

Usage

Finding Skills

Trae automatically discovers and suggests skills based on context. You can also explicitly request them:

use the brainstorming skill

Personal Skills

Create your own skills in ~/.trae/skills/:

mkdir -p ~/.trae/skills/my-skill

Create ~/.trae/skills/my-skill/SKILL.md:

---
name: my-skill
description: Use when [condition] - [what it does]
---

# My Skill

[Your skill content here]

Project Skills

Create project-specific skills in .trae/skills/ within your project:

mkdir -p .trae/skills/my-project-skill

Skill Priority: Project skills > Personal skills > Superpowers skills

Updating

cd ~/.trae/superpowers
git pull

Troubleshooting

Skills not found

  1. Check symlink: ls -l ~/.trae/skills/superpowers
  2. Verify it points to: ~/.trae/superpowers/skills
  3. Restart Trae IDE — skills are discovered at startup

Skills not triggering automatically

Add a User Rule in Trae IDE via Settings > Rules & Skills > User Rules with the following content:

You have access to superpowers skills located at ~/.trae/skills/superpowers/.
Before responding to any task, check if a superpowers skill applies.
To load a skill, read the SKILL.md file from ~/.trae/skills/superpowers/{skill-name}/SKILL.md
Key skills available: brainstorming, writing-plans, subagent-driven-development,
test-driven-development, systematic-debugging, requesting-code-review.
Always use the using-superpowers skill guidelines when deciding whether to invoke a skill.

Getting Help