Superpowers: A Skills Framework for Claude

What Is Superpowers

Superpowers is a community-built skills framework and software development methodology for coding agents. It adds a workflow that starts with brainstorming and planning before any code is written, then drives implementation with tests and code review.

The Workflow

• Brainstorming - Refine the idea and agree a design before coding.
• Using git worktrees - Work on an isolated branch.
• Writing plans - Break work into small verified tasks.
• Test-driven development - Write a failing test, then make it pass.
• Requesting code review - Check the work against the plan.
• Finishing the branch - Merge, open a pull request or discard.

Key Skills Inside

• test-driven-development
• systematic-debugging
• verification-before-completion
• brainstorming and writing-plans
• subagent-driven-development
• requesting-code-review and receiving-code-review
• dispatching-parallel-agents
• using-git-worktrees

Installing

claude plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace
claude plugin install superpowers@superpowers-marketplace

Key Points

• Superpowers makes planning and testing mandatory, not optional.
• Skills trigger automatically when the task matches.
• TDD is enforced with red-green-refactor.
• Install it as a plugin from its marketplace.