Superpowers
An agentic skills framework: planning, execution, and review as reusable skills.
Use it for
Teams that want a repeatable development loop — brainstorm, plan, execute, review
Skip it if
Small one-file tasks; the methodology costs more than the task
What it is
A collection that packages a development methodology as skills: brainstorming, writing a plan, executing it, and reviewing the result. It is less a tool than a set of conventions an agent follows. The trade-off is structure over speed, which suits multi-day work and frustrates quick edits.
Install
Clone the repository, then copy the skill folder into your agent's skills directory — ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code. Skills are plain files: no build step, no daemon.
npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers-skillsHow to judge it
Read the SKILL.md before you install. A good skill states when it applies, what it must not do, and how to verify the result. A skill that only lists adjectives will change the agent's tone without improving its output — skip those.
Other Coding & Dev skills
- Web Artifacts Builder — Official skill for building a self-contained web app as a single artifact.
- Agents Skill Collection — A curated set of specialist agents and their skills, organised by domain.
- MCP Builder — Official skill that scaffolds an MCP server from an API description.