What Is Superpowers for Claude Code?

Superpowers is an open-source agentic skills framework (124K+ GitHub stars, MIT license) that transforms your AI coding agent into a disciplined senior developer. Created by Jesse Vincent (@obra).

What It Does

Instead of letting your agent jump straight to code, Superpowers enforces a methodology:

1. Brainstorming — Agent asks questions before writing code
2. Planning — Breaks work into 2-5 minute tasks with verification steps
3. Subagent-Driven Development — Fresh agents per task, two-stage review
4. TDD — Strict RED-GREEN-REFACTOR (deletes code written before tests)
5. Code Review — Reviews against plan between tasks

Install

# Claude Code (official marketplace)
/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official

# Cursor
/add-plugin superpowers

# Gemini CLI
gemini extensions install https://github.com/obra/superpowers

Skills trigger automatically — no special prompts needed.

Full review: Superpowers: The 124K-Star Skills Framework for Claude Code