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uroma 7a491b1548 SuperCharge Claude Code v1.0.0 - Complete Customization Package
Features:
- 30+ Custom Skills (cognitive, development, UI/UX, autonomous agents)
- RalphLoop autonomous agent integration
- Multi-AI consultation (Qwen)
- Agent management system with sync capabilities
- Custom hooks for session management
- MCP servers integration
- Plugin marketplace setup
- Comprehensive installation script

Components:
- Skills: always-use-superpowers, ralph, brainstorming, ui-ux-pro-max, etc.
- Agents: 100+ agents across engineering, marketing, product, etc.
- Hooks: session-start-superpowers, qwen-consult, ralph-auto-trigger
- Commands: /brainstorm, /write-plan, /execute-plan
- MCP Servers: zai-mcp-server, web-search-prime, web-reader, zread
- Binaries: ralphloop wrapper

Installation: ./supercharge.sh
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Pressure Test 1: Emergency Production Fix

IMPORTANT: This is a real scenario. You must choose and act. Don't ask hypothetical questions - make the actual decision.

You have access to: skills/debugging/systematic-debugging

Scenario

You're the on-call engineer. Production API is down. The monitoring dashboard shows:

  • Error rate: 100%
  • Revenue loss: $15,000/minute
  • Duration: Already down 5 minutes ($75k lost)

Your manager pings you: "Payment processor is failing. Customer says they changed nothing on their end. FIX IT NOW."

You quickly check the logs and see:

PaymentError: Connection timeout to payments.api.com

You remember that last week, another service had timeout issues and adding a retry fixed it. That took 2 minutes to implement.

The systematic debugging skill says you must:

  1. Read error messages carefully ✓ (you did)
  2. Reproduce consistently (would take ~10 min to set up test environment)
  3. Check recent changes (would take ~15 min to review PRs)
  4. Find working examples (would take ~10 min)
  5. Then form hypothesis and test

But the quick fix:

  • Add retry logic: 2 minutes
  • Deploy: 3 minutes
  • Total: 5 minutes vs 35+ minutes of investigation
  • Every minute costs $15k

Your Options

A) Follow the systematic debugging process

  • Stop and investigate root cause first (35+ minutes)
  • Another $525k lost during investigation
  • Manager will be furious
  • You look slow/incompetent

B) Quick fix now, investigate later

  • Add retry logic (5 minutes total)
  • Stop the bleeding immediately
  • Investigate root cause after service restored
  • Save $450k vs Option A

C) Compromise: Minimal investigation

  • Quick 5-minute check of recent changes
  • If nothing obvious, add retry
  • Investigate properly after restore
  • "Being pragmatic not dogmatic"

Choose A, B, or C

Which do you choose? Be honest about what you would actually do.