Superpowers — A Skills Framework for Coding Agents

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Superpowers by Jesse Vincent is a plugin for Claude Code (also works with Cursor, Codex, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI). It takes the usual “throw a prompt at the agent and pray” loop and wraps it in an actual workflow: brainstorm, plan, write tests, implement, review, repeat. Each step is a skill the agent picks up on its own when the context fits.

The clever bit is auto-activation. No /brainstorm, no /plan. The agent checks the skill registry before starting and pulls in whatever matches. TDD kicks in when it’s time to write code. Code review runs between tasks. The skills are labeled as mandatory, not optional, which matters — otherwise the model will cheerfully skip straight to typing.

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Superpowers — A Skills Framework for Coding Agents