Skill

superpowers

obra/superpowers · Shell · MIT

Drop-in skills that make your coding agent actually do TDD and debug properly.

Superpowers is a curated set of skills covering test-driven development, systematic debugging, planning and collaboration, designed to steer agents toward disciplined engineering habits.

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★ 303k Stars
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3 min Time to first run
Not required API key

Score

Trend 75
Activity 82
Quality 60
Community 78
Relevance 55

Setup at a glance

DeployCopy
GPUNo GPU needed
API keyNot required
Works withClaude Code, Cursor, Codex
UI languagesen
Doc languagesen
Install
cp -r skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

Deep dive

superpowers is obra's (Jesse Vincent's) collection of Agent Skills for Claude Code — a composable library of capabilities an agent can pick up mid-session, from planning and research to code review and documentation.

It installs as a Claude Code plugin or by cloning the skills into place, and the getting-started docs walk through how the skills compose: each one is a small, focused capability rather than a monolithic prompt.

The project is developed in the open with commercial services offered around it, and the author's blog and Primer Radiant site document the thinking behind the skill format.

Use cases

Make an agent write tests before code
Force a structured debugging loop on failures
Add review and planning discipline to a coding workflow

Good for / Not ideal for

Good for

Developers who want rigorous agents
Teams onboarding junior devs via skills
Anyone tired of agents 'winging it'

Not ideal for

You prefer fully autonomous, free-form agents
Non-coding agent use cases

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