Agent skills · Coding
Superpowers: the agent asks and plans before it writes code Coding agents love to start typing before they understand the job. Superpowers turns the work into a process: the agent questions you about the goal, shows the design in readable chunks, writes a detailed plan once you approve, then executes it through subagents that review every task and keep tests in a red-green-refactor loop.
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Author Jesse Vincent (Prime Radiant)
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Pack 15 skills in the pack
Updated 23 October 2026
Agents Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Antigravity, Devin CLI, Factory Droid, Grok Build CLI, Kimi Code, Pi, Qwen Code, Hermes Agent, Muse What it does brainstorming fires before any build, drawing out what you want and why, then playing its understanding back for correction writing-plans breaks work into 2–5 minute tasks with exact file paths, complete code and verification steps subagent-driven-development hands each task to a fresh subagent and reviews it for spec compliance, then code quality test-driven-development insists on a failing test first, while systematic-debugging traces a bug to its root in four phases using-git-worktrees sets up an isolated branch, and finishing-a-development-branch offers merge, PR, keep or discard When to use it You are starting a feature and want the agent to agree on a design with you instead of guessing You want the agent to work autonomously for a couple of hours on a plan you signed off A session went sideways and you want to know why: diagnosing-superpowers reads the transcript and cites evidence Ask your agent Let's make a React todo list, but talk me through what it needs first Write an implementation plan for CSV export based on the design we agreed Figure out what went wrong with superpowers in this session Before you install The plugin loads using-superpowers at session start and its workflows are mandatory: the TDD skill deletes code written before tests. The README has a section on visual companion telemetry worth reading before you install.
Questions How do I install Superpowers in Claude Code? From the official marketplace with /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official, or with npx skills add obra/superpowers via the skills CLI.
Does Superpowers work in Codex or Gemini CLI? Yes. The README covers Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Qwen Code and more; each harness needs its own install.
How is Superpowers different from single skills? It is a connected process from brainstorming to finishing-a-development-branch, with skills triggering on their own as the work moves along.
