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using-startup-superpowers
Use at the start of any conversation about a startup idea, product validation, founder strategy, or work inside a `startup/` workspace. Establishes file conventions, voice-input handling, subagent dispatch rules, and how to update each artifact safely. Activate before invoking any other startup-superpowers skill.
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# Using startup-superpowers
This skill carries the always-on context for the startup-superpowers plugin. When it activates, treat its contents as plugin-wide ground rules — file formats, voice-input handling, subagent dispatch — that apply across every other startup-superpowers skill. It is not a workflow to execute; it is the shared backdrop you operate against.
Load this before invoking `whats-next`, `competitors`, `hypotheses`, `interviews`, `market-research`, `surveys`, or `mvp`.
## Voice input
The founder may be using voice input. Voice transcription is unreliable with proper nouns — competitor names, product names, URLs, technical terms, and non-English words often come through garbled. When the input contains something that looks like a misheard name or an unintelligible fragment, ask the founder to clarify or spell it out rather than guessing.
## Project definition
The source of truth for the project definition is `startup/core.md`. It is a markdown file with:
