Superpowers
A software development methodology shipped as installable agent skills.
About
Superpowers is a set of composable agent skills that impose a disciplined development workflow: brainstorming before building, written plans with bite-sized tasks, true red-green TDD, subagent-driven implementation, and code review between tasks. With roughly 298K stars under MIT, it is the most widely adopted agent-skills package in existence, installable across 15+ harnesses from Claude Code to Cursor to Gemini CLI. It is opinionated by design: if you prefer freeform agent work, its mandatory workflows will feel heavy.
What it can do
- Spec brainstorming, plan writing, TDD enforcement, subagent-driven implementation, systematic debugging, release management.
Setup
Claude Code: /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official (other harnesses have their own install commands in the README).
Prerequisites
A supported agent harness (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and others).
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 10/10
Scored 10/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Live GitHub repo verified: ~298,390 stars, 26.6K forks, MIT license, install commands verbatim from README for 15+ harnesses.; Workflow claims (brainstorming, TDD, subagent-driven development) taken from the project's own documented methodology..
★ 298,390 GitHub stars
Sources
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