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superpowers — Agent Skill

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Superpowers teaches Claude brainstorming, subagent driven development with built in code review, systematic debugging, and red/green TDD. Additionally, it teaches Claude how to author and test new skills.

At a glance

superpowers is an Agent Skill by obra in the Coding & Engineering category. In Claude Code it installs with `/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official` after adding the anthropics/claude-plugins-official marketplace; other assistants use its SKILL.md instructions as rules. Its source repository has 306,947 GitHub stars (as of Oct 27, 2026).

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How to install superpowers in your AI client

Setup for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Cline and VS Code — copy-paste ready.

How to install superpowers in Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic CLI

  1. Add the marketplace

    claude
    /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official

  2. Install the skill

    claude
    /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official

  3. Use it

    These are slash commands for a Claude Code session, not your shell. Claude auto-invokes the skill when your request matches its description — or type its slash command if it exposes one.

Documentation

Full README

Superpowers

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.

Table of Contents

  • How it works
  • Commercial Services
  • Getting Started
  • Claude Code
  • Antigravity
  • Codex App
  • Codex CLI
  • Cursor
  • Devin CLI
  • Factory Droid
  • Gemini CLI
  • GitHub Copilot CLI
  • Grok Build CLI
  • Kimi Code
  • OpenCode
  • Pi
  • Qwen Code
  • Hermes Agent
  • Muse
  • The Basic Workflow
  • When Something Goes Wrong
  • Community
  • What's Inside
  • Philosophy
  • Contributing
  • Updating
  • License
  • Visual companion telemetry

How it works

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 say "go", it launches a *subagent-driven-development* process, having agents work through each engineering task, inspecting and reviewing their work, and continuing forward. It's not uncommon for your agent to work autonomously for a couple hours at a time without deviating from the plan you put together.

There's a bunch more to it, but that's the core of the system. And because the skills trigger automatically, you don't need to do anything special. Your coding agent just has Superpowers.

Commercial Services

If you're using Superpowers in enterprise and could benefit from commercial support, additional tooling, or managed spending, please don't hesitate to drop us a line at sales@primeradiant.com.

Installation

Installation differs by harness. If you use more than one, install Superpowers separately for each one.

Excerpt — the full document is on GitHub.

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