Super-Bro: Proactive AI Guidance
An intelligent assistant within CodeMantis that offers context-aware suggestions, keyboard shortcut help, and proactive guidance as you work.
Overview
Super-Bro is a proactive guidance system built into CodeMantis. Unlike Claude Code — which responds to your prompts — Super-Bro watches what you're doing and offers relevant suggestions, tips, and shortcuts without being asked. Think of it as a knowledgeable colleague looking over your shoulder, pointing out features you might not know about.
What Super-Bro Does
Super-Bro provides three kinds of assistance:
Context-Aware Suggestions
As you work in CodeMantis, Super-Bro detects patterns in your workflow and offers relevant tips:
- First-time actions — When you perform an action for the first time (e.g. opening the Activity Feed), Super-Bro highlights related features you might find useful.
- Workflow improvements — If you're doing something the slow way (e.g. manually typing a file path instead of using "Add to Chat" from the file tree), Super-Bro suggests the faster approach.
- Feature discovery — Surfaces features you haven't used yet that are relevant to what you're currently doing. For example, if you're reviewing diffs manually, it might suggest the diff view toggle.
Keyboard Shortcut Assistance
Super-Bro notices when you perform actions via mouse clicks that have keyboard shortcuts and gently reminds you of the shortcut. Over time, this helps you build muscle memory for the most common operations:
- Panel switching — "Try Cmd+Shift+T to jump to the Terminal tab"
- Mode toggling — "Press Cmd+. to switch between Normal, Auto-Accept, and Plan modes"
- Quick actions — "Cmd+Shift+B opens SpecWriter directly"
Proactive Guidance
Super-Bro offers guidance at key moments in your workflow:
- Context window warnings — When your context usage is getting high, Super-Bro suggests using
/compactor starting a new session before you hit the limit. - Session management — Suggests starting a new session when you switch tasks, keeping each session focused.
- Best practices — Recommends Plan mode when you describe an architectural question, or suggests using SpecWriter for complex features.
How It Appears
Super-Bro surfaces its suggestions through non-intrusive UI elements that don't interrupt your flow:
- Inline tips that appear near the relevant UI element
- Brief notifications that fade after a few seconds
- Contextual hints in the interface margins
Suggestions are dismissible — click to dismiss or ignore and they fade away. Super-Bro learns from dismissals and avoids repeating tips you've already seen.
Super-Bro is designed to be helpful without being annoying. Suggestions appear infrequently and only when they're contextually relevant. It won't interrupt you mid-thought or repeat tips you've already dismissed.
Tips
- Pay attention to shortcut suggestions — they'll speed up your workflow significantly over time.
- Don't ignore context warnings — Super-Bro's context meter alerts can save you from hitting the wall mid-conversation.
- Let it guide you — especially when you're new to CodeMantis, Super-Bro helps you discover features organically rather than reading the entire help center upfront.
Related Articles
- Keyboard Shortcuts — Full reference of all available shortcuts
- Context Meter & Token Management — Understanding context window usage
- Session Modes Explained — Learn about the three session modes Super-Bro recommends