You or your Shard have placed limitations on your chosen powers and/or perks. When restrictions are imposed on some aspects, others improve to compensate. Overall your powers will be integrated to work together as a single whole.
For example, your powers can only be used by minions, only one set can be used at a time (powers are grouped thematically), and you have to build Tinker devices to produce those powers (if you have a Tinker power for example).
If the restrictions are centered around a power, like a minion master power or Tinker ability, this ability gets a boost.