AI Cheat Codes — Issue 01

The 5 Claude Code skills.
Your setup guide.

You asked for it. Here's every skill, what it does, and exactly how to install it — takes under two minutes total.

How to install any skill

npx skills add

Run that in your terminal. Install commands for each skill are below. Browse all skills at skills.sh

01 Superpowers 138K+ ⭐

Turns Claude Code into a senior developer. Structured thinking, parallel agents, proper testing. Currently ranked #51 on GitHub globally. Install this one first — everything else builds on it.

npx skills add obra/superpowers
github.com/obra/superpowers
02 Brainstorming

Before you build anything, this forces Claude to think architecturally first — clarify the goal, map the risks, propose approaches, get your sign-off — before a single line of code. No more half-baked outputs.

npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill brainstorming
github.com/obra/superpowers
03 Subagent-Driven Development

Claude dispatches multiple fresh agents in parallel — one per independent task — each with a two-stage review (spec compliance, then code quality). This is what 10x speed actually looks like.

npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill subagent-driven-development
github.com/obra/superpowers
04 Stop Slop by Hardik Pandya

Every AI output sounds like AI. Em-dashes, throat-clearing openers, "certainly!", passive voice — this strips all of it. Scores your writing 1–10 across 5 dimensions and rewrites until it sounds human.

npx skills add hardikpandya/stop-slop
github.com/hardikpandya/stop-slop
The dangerous one
05 Find Skills 920K+ installs/week

Describe what you're trying to do — Claude searches the entire skills ecosystem and finds the exact skill for the job. There are hundreds of verified skills at skills.sh. This is the one that unlocks all the others.

npx skills add vercel-labs/skills --skill find-skills
github.com/vercel-labs/skills

Recommended install order

Superpowers → Brainstorming → Subagent Dev → Stop Slop → Find Skills

Next issue: the exact prompts we use at OptiMAX to get 10x output from Claude Code every day.

— AI Cheat Codes by OptiMAX