obra/superpowers
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
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Superpowers is a complete software development methodology for your coding agents, built on top of a set of composable skills and some initial instructions that make sure your agent uses them. It starts from the moment you fire up your coding agent. As soon as it sees that you're building something, it doesn't just jump into trying to write code. Instead, it steps back and asks you what you're really trying to do. Once it's teased a spec out of the conversation, it shows it to you in chunks short enough to actually read and digest. After you've signed off on the design, your agent puts together an implementation plan that's clear enough for an enthusiastic junior engineer with poor taste, no judgement, no project context, and an aversion to testing to follow. It emphasizes true red/green TDD, YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), and DRY. Next up, once you…
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- Superpowers
- Table of Contents
- How it works
- Commercial Services
- Installation
- Claude Code
- Official Marketplace
- Superpowers Marketplace
- Antigravity
- Codex App
- Codex CLI
- Cursor
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What this repository does
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
Repository facts
- Owner
- obra
- Primary language
- Shell
- Stars
- 309,717
- Forks
- 27,551
- Open issues + pull requests
- 375
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2025-10-09T19:45:18.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-29T23:35:34.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai, brainstorming, coding, obra, sdlc, skills, subagent-driven-development, superpowers
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