Superpowers

Superpowers isn’t a single skill so much as a development methodology packaged as a coordinated set of them — fourteen at last count, covering brainstorming, writing-plans, subagent-driven-development, systematic-debugging, test-driven-development, requesting-code-review, using-git-worktrees, and more. The pitch is that an agent’s default failure mode is jumping straight to code, and the framework’s job is to interrupt that: ask clarifying questions and present a design in digestible sections before any implementation starts.

The workflow that emerges is deliberately staged — brainstorm, break the result into 2-to-5-minute tasks with exact implementation details, implement with a two-stage review (spec compliance, then code quality), test against a strict RED-GREEN-REFACTOR loop, then review and merge. Skills activate automatically based on where an agent is in that pipeline rather than requiring the user to invoke them by name, and a meta-skill (writing-skills) is included for extending the set with project-specific ones.

It ships as a Claude Code plugin (/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official) but also includes adapter directories for Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and Gemini CLI, making the same methodology usable outside Claude Code specifically. Worth pairing with a narrower, single-purpose skill like TDD if you only want one piece of the discipline rather than the full pipeline.