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Chameleon and superpowers compose when both are installed. The two plugins occupy
complementary layers — superpowers shapes process, chameleon shapes output and supplies facts —
but neither knew the other existed at runtime, so a session got two independent contracts and no
rule for sequencing them. The only cross-references lived inside chameleon skill bodies, which
are read after the skill is already invoked, too late to route. SessionStart now appends a
~174-token routing paragraph naming which skill owns review, receiving review, and debugging,
and stating that /chameleon-deep-work is self-contained so brainstorming is not in its path —
a contract that was previously undefined, since deep-work forbids questions and brainstorming is
a gate of nothing but questions. The full version lives in using-chameleon; the digest carries
its summary. CHAMELEON_PEER_ROUTING=0 disables it.
Peer detection answers "will it be active", not "do its files exist." Existence checks only —
no byte of the peer plugin's content is ever read or rendered. Claude Code's own registry is
authoritative when readable, so a leftover cache directory cannot keep the block alive after an
uninstall; a plugin switched off via enabledPlugins in the USER-level ~/.claude/settings.json
reads as absent. That check is user-level only: a plugin disabled in a project's own .claude/settings.json still reads as enabled, so the block can appear in a session where
superpowers does not load. Both rungs are bounded, because SessionStart's wrapper caps the whole
Python emission at 3 seconds and loses the entire injection on overrun.
The routing block is added only to a digest that survived the budget fit whole, and only if it
then fits in what remains — so optional prose can never cost curated digest content, and can
never outlive it either. Both directions are closed by construction rather than by window.