Skills that make your coding agent brainstorm, plan, test-drive, debug and review its work before it calls the job done.
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Superpowers is a skills framework and software development method for coding agents, built by Jesse Vincent (obra) and the team at Prime Radiant. Its skills trigger on their own: before writing code, your agent asks what you're really building, agrees a design with you, writes a plan, then works through it test-first, with reviews along the way. What its skills teach the agent - brainstorming: draw out what you actually want through questions, then play it back for correction - writing-plans and executing-plans: break approved work into small tasks with exact file paths and verification steps - subagent-driven-development: hand each task to a fresh subagent, with a spec review and a code-quality review after each - test-driven-development: red, green, refactor, with the failing test written first - systematic-debugging and verification-before-completion: a four-phase root-cause process, then proof the fix really works - requesting-code-review and receiving-code-review: review against the plan and report issues by severity - using-git-worktrees and finishing-a-development-branch: work on an isolated branch, then merge, open a PR, keep or discard it - writing-skills: create and test new skills - diagnosing-superpowers: work out what went wrong in a session, with evidence How to install it In Claude Code, install it from Anthropic's official marketplace with /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official, or add obra's own marketplace with /plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace and then /plugin install superpowers@superpowers-marketplace. In Gemini CLI, run gemini extensions install https://github.com/obra/superpowers. The README has steps for Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode and more. Good to know - No sign-in: the skills run inside your agent. - It's MIT licensed. - The optional visual companion in brainstorming loads the Prime Radiant logo from its website, which tells it the Superpowers version you use. Set SUPERPOWERS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY to turn that off.
Once it’s added
“Help me think through this feature before we write any code.”
“Write an implementation plan for the design we agreed.”
“Work through the plan with a fresh subagent for each task.”
“Test-drive the fix for this bug.”
“Find the root cause of this failing test.”
“Figure out what went wrong with superpowers in this session.”
Before you add it
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Your request and your project, to agree a design before any code · A session's transcript, when diagnosing what went wrong
Makes changes · your agent can ask first
Design documents and implementation plans · Tests first, then the code, on its own git worktree · Commits, then a merge or PR when you choose
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/plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace /plugin install superpowers@superpowers-marketplace
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gemini extensions install https://github.com/obra/superpowers
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Addy Osmani's engineering workflows for coding agents: spec, plan, build, test, review and ship, with quality gates at each step.
