superpowers-skills

Community-editable skills for Claude Code's superpowers plugin

$npx skills add obra/superpowers-skills

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Jesse Vincent

Superpowers Skills

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About the author

Jesse Vincent Creator of Superpowers

Jesse Vincent is a long-time open-source developer (Request Tracker, co-founder of Keyboardio). Superpowers, his agentic skills framework, is one of the most starred skill repos on GitHub.

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31 skills in this pack.

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Gardening Skills Wiki

Maintain skills wiki health - check links, naming, cross-references, and coverage

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Root Cause Tracing

Systematically trace bugs backward through call stack to find original trigger

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Testing Skills With Subagents

RED-GREEN-REFACTOR for process documentation - baseline without skill, write addressing failures, iterate closing loopholes

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Code Review Reception

Receive and act on code review feedback with technical rigor, not performative agreement or blind implementation

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Condition-Based Waiting

Replace arbitrary timeouts with condition polling for reliable async tests

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Dispatching Parallel Agents

Use multiple Claude agents to investigate and fix independent problems concurrently

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Systematic Debugging

Four-phase debugging framework that ensures root cause investigation before attempting fixes. Never jump to solutions.

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Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass

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Tracing Knowledge Lineages

Understand how ideas evolved over time to find old solutions for new problems and avoid repeating past failures

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Using Git Worktrees

Create isolated git worktrees with smart directory selection and safety verification

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Writing Skills

TDD for process documentation - test with subagents before writing, iterate until bulletproof

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Preserving Productive Tensions

Recognize when disagreements reveal valuable context, preserve multiple valid approaches instead of forcing premature resolution

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Sharing Skills

Contribute skills back to upstream via branch and PR

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Subagent-Driven Development

Execute implementation plan by dispatching fresh subagent for each task, with code review between tasks

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Defense-in-Depth Validation

Validate at every layer data passes through to make bugs impossible

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Finishing a Development Branch

Complete feature development with structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup

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Getting Started with Skills

Skills wiki intro - mandatory workflows, search tool, brainstorming triggers

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Pulling Updates from Skills Repository

Sync local skills repository with upstream changes from obra/superpowers-skills

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Remembering Conversations

Search previous Claude Code conversations for facts, patterns, decisions, and context using semantic or text search

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Verification Before Completion

Run verification commands and confirm output before claiming success

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When Stuck - Problem-Solving Dispatch

Dispatch to the right problem-solving technique based on how you're stuck

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Writing Plans

Create detailed implementation plans with bite-sized tasks for engineers with zero codebase context

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Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

Interactive idea refinement using Socratic method to develop fully-formed designs

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Executing Plans

Execute detailed plans in batches with review checkpoints

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Requesting Code Review

Dispatch code-reviewer subagent to review implementation against plan or requirements before proceeding

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Scale Game

Test at extremes (1000x bigger/smaller, instant/year-long) to expose fundamental truths hidden at normal scales

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Simplification Cascades

Find one insight that eliminates multiple components - "if this is true, we don't need X, Y, or Z"

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Collision-Zone Thinking

Force unrelated concepts together to discover emergent properties - "What if we treated X like Y?"

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Inversion Exercise

Flip core assumptions to reveal hidden constraints and alternative approaches - "what if the opposite were true?"

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Meta-Pattern Recognition

Spot patterns appearing in 3+ domains to find universal principles

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From the README

How to use superpowers-skills

Superpowers Skills

Community-editable skills for Claude Code's superpowers plugin.

Structure

skills/ - Core skills library
scripts/ - Utility scripts for skill management

Installation

This repository is automatically cloned by the superpowers plugin to ~/.config/superpowers/skills/.

Contributing

Users can fork this repo and submit PRs with new skills or improvements to existing ones.

Questions

What is obra/superpowers-skills?

Community-editable skills for Claude Code's superpowers plugin

How do I install superpowers-skills?

Run "npx skills add obra/superpowers-skills" and choose the skills you want. Many packs also document their own install path (for example a Claude Code plugin marketplace) in the README below.

How many skills are in superpowers-skills?

31 SKILL.md skills. Alyn lists 30 of them with their own pages.

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