Superpowers is an 🏷️#open-source agentic skill pack by Jesse Vincent and Prime Radiant that provides a structured software development workflow for coding agents. Rather than letting agents jump straight to code, it enforces a systematic methodology through composable, auto-triggering "skills" — reusable modules that activate at appropriate moments in the development lifecycle. 📝Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) licensed, 145k stars, with support for 📝Claude Code, 📝Cursor, 📝GitHub Copilot CLI, 📝Gemini CLI, 📝Codex, and 📝OpenCode.
Workflow Phases
The system operates through seven integrated phases:
- Brainstorming — Socratic refinement of requirements through questioning before design begins
- Git Worktrees — creates isolated development branches per task
- Planning — breaks work into bite-sized tasks (2-5 minute chunks)
- Execution — subagent-driven development with two-stage review
- Test-Driven Development — enforces RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycles as mandatory, not optional
- Code Review — systematic review against specifications
- Branch Completion — verification and merge decisions
Skills Library
The skills are organized into testing/debugging (TDD with anti-patterns reference, systematic 4-phase root cause analysis, verification-before-completion), collaboration (Socratic brainstorming, implementation planning, code review workflows, parallel agent dispatching, subagent-driven development), and meta skills (writing new skills, system introduction). The framework treats these as mandatory workflows, not suggestions — agents check for relevant skills before any task.
Installation
For Claude Code: /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official. Also available for Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Codex, and OpenCode via their respective plugin systems.
My technical advisor, đź“ťJim Goodman, highly recommended Superpowers and noted it has been blessed by đź“ťAnthropic.