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Superpowers

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Welcome to Superpowers

Superpowers is a complete software development workflow for your coding agents, built on composable “skills” that enforce best practices automatically.

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What is Superpowers?

Instead of jumping straight into code, Superpowers guides your agent through a systematic workflow:
  1. Design first — Refine ideas through conversation and get approval before implementation
  2. Plan thoroughly — Break work into bite-sized tasks with clear verification steps
  3. Test-driven development — Write failing tests first, then minimal code to pass
  4. Systematic debugging — Four-phase root cause analysis instead of guess-and-check
  5. Code review — Two-stage review process (spec compliance, then code quality)
  6. Clean completion — Verify everything works before declaring success
Because skills trigger automatically based on context, your agent just has Superpowers. No special commands needed.

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Key Features

Test-Driven Development

Enforce RED-GREEN-REFACTOR cycle with hard gates

Systematic Debugging

Root-cause tracing and defense-in-depth techniques

Design-First Brainstorming

Socratic refinement before writing any code

Subagent-Driven Development

Parallel task execution with independent agents

Git Worktrees

Isolated development branches for clean workflows

Code Review

Two-stage review: spec compliance + code quality

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Philosophy

Systematic over ad-hoc — Process beats guessing every time
Superpowers is built on four core principles:
  • Test-Driven Development — Write tests first, always
  • Systematic over ad-hoc — Process over guessing
  • Complexity reduction — Simplicity as primary goal
  • Evidence over claims — Verify before declaring success

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Supported Platforms

Superpowers works with multiple coding agent platforms:

Claude Code

Install via plugin marketplace

Cursor

Install via plugin marketplace

Codex

Manual installation

OpenCode

Manual installation

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Get Started

Quickstart Guide

Install Superpowers and run your first workflow in 5 minutes

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Open Source

Superpowers is MIT licensed and developed in the open. Contributions are welcome!

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