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 [email protected].

 Installation

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

 Claude Code

Superpowers is available via the official Claude plugin marketplace

 Official Marketplace

- Install the plugin from Anthropic's official marketplace:

  bash
  /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
  

 Superpowers Marketplace

The Superpowers marketplace provides Superpowers and some other related plugins for Claude Code.

- Register the marketplace:

  bash
  /plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace
  

- Install the plugin from this marketplace:

  bash
  /plugin install superpowers@superpowers-marketplace
  

 Antigravity

Install Superpowers as a plugin from this repository:

bash
agy plugin install https://github.com/obra/superpowers


Antigravity lists each installed skill's description, and the description of
the using-superpowers skill prompts

Top issues

Latest release

This release further tunes brainstorming's questions. It asks fewer of them, starts by asking why, and when there's a choice to make it gives you options to pick from. It also fixes bootstrap problems on six harnesses, and makes the SDD and executing-plans helper scripts much harder to point at the wrong repository or the wrong task.

 Brainstorming

- It asks a question only when the answer would change what gets built and nothing already answers it. Otherwise it states its call as a proposal you can correct. It also stops asking about process: writing things up, where files go, whether to lo