Superpowers 7.0.1 keeps its five-round fix limit after Claude Code compacts

Superpowers 7.0.1, released October 21, shrinks its subagent-driven-development skill under twenty thousand characters, so Claude Code keeps the skill's five-round fix limit after a compaction. In a long session, that limit is what stops one task from looping on fixes.

After a compaction, Claude Code re-attaches each skill you invoked, cut off at twenty thousand characters. subagent-driven-development ran past thirty-two thousand. So the fix loop, its five-round cap and the final review were gone for the rest of the session.

One reported session ran about thirty-three hours, through thirty-six compactions. The skill allows five fix rounds per task. One task ran eighteen, and had started a nineteenth, before the human stopped the loop.

The fix moves the fix loop, the final review and five other steps into reference files, which the skill reads from disk at the step that needs them. writing-skills splits the same way, and executing-plans drops a repeated example.

A new test fails whenever any skill file reaches twenty thousand bytes, so the next addition can't push one over. It can't help when Claude Code drops a skill from the re-attached list altogether, or when rules break before any compaction at all.

Brainstorming changes too. It now lays out two or three ways to build the thing, recommends one, and asks you to pick. Then it writes a design doc, a short one for a small change, and builds nothing until you approve it.

Asked for a small change to a photo gallery, the old skill skipped the design doc without asking in every run. Now it skips in about one run of eight.

One weak spot remains. If you keep asking what it would recommend, brainstorming often lays out approaches only when you ask for them. Throwaway spikes, and saying just build it, still skip the steps. How many compactions does your longest Claude Code session run through?