Superpowers is an open-source "agentic skills framework and software development methodology" for AI coding agents, made by Jesse Vincent (GitHub: obra) and the Prime Radiant team. It is one of the most-starred agent projects on GitHub, with about 313,600 stars and 27,900 forks, and it was still on GitHub's trending list this week, adding about 6,000 stars in a week.
What it does: it is a set of composable skills, plus instructions that make the agent use them, which trigger on their own. Instead of jumping into code, the agent first asks clarifying questions and drafts a design, then writes an implementation plan, then works through the tasks with subagents, test-driven development and code review between steps, in an isolated Git worktree, before finishing the branch. Version 7.0.2 (3 November) makes brainstorming ask fewer questions, start by asking why, and recommend an option when a choice is needed; it also fixes start-up problems on six agents, including Copilot on Windows.
Where it runs: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Qwen Code and others. In Claude Code it is in Anthropic's official plugin marketplace: /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official. In Cursor, type /add-plugin superpowers in Agent chat; in the Codex CLI, run /plugins and search for "superpowers". Each agent needs its own install. Licence: MIT.
Limits: a developer who has used it for six months calls it Claude Code's "missing methodology layer" and says about 40% of their use is now non-code work, but warns that its overhead gets in the way of one-line fixes, that the plan-first style suits neither open-ended exploration nor rushed debugging, that it uses more tokens per task, and that it takes about two weeks to get used to. Hacker News attention has been small (a few posts of 2–5 points); a separate "faster alternative", Superlite, drew 157 points.
