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Superpowers

An open-source skills framework for coding agents, covering design, planning, testing, debugging, and code review.

Superpowers is a skills framework and software development methodology that guides coding agents through brainstorming, planning, implementation, testing, and review. Superpowers serves developers and engineering teams using coding agents and is available as an open-source, MIT-licensed project, with commercial services offered for enterprise users.

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FreeOpen-source project under the MIT license. Enterprise commercial support, additional tooling, and managed spending are available through sales.
Added
28 Oct 2026

About Superpowers

Superpowers is an open-source agentic skills framework and software development methodology for developers using coding agents. Superpowers combines composable skills with initial instructions that guide agents through requirements discovery, design approval, implementation planning, and software delivery.

Superpowers begins with brainstorming to clarify the intended outcome before code is written. After design approval, Superpowers guides agents to create isolated Git worktrees, establish a clean test baseline, and produce implementation tasks with file paths, code, and verification steps. Execution can use a fresh subagent for each task with reviews between tasks, or proceed within the current session with a final branch review. Other skills cover test-driven development, systematic debugging, verification before completion, and development branch cleanup.

Superpowers is available from its public GitHub repository under the MIT license. Installation options include plugins, extensions, and packages for coding environments such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, and Pi. Commercial support, additional tooling, and managed spending are available for enterprise users through a sales contact.

Superpowers suits developers and teams seeking structured coding-agent workflows. Installation differs by coding environment and must be completed separately for each environment. The documentation also acknowledges that skills can misfire or agents can deviate from plans, and provides a session-diagnosis skill.

What you can do

  • Requirements brainstorming and design approval
  • Implementation plans with file paths and verification steps
  • Subagent-driven or inline plan execution
  • Test-driven development workflows
  • Systematic debugging and completion verification
  • Code review between implementation tasks
  • Isolated Git worktree workflows
  • Session diagnosis with transcript evidence

Pros and cons

What works

  • MIT-licensed source code available on GitHub
  • Installation options for multiple coding-agent environments
  • Skills trigger automatically during development
  • Workflows include testing, review, and verification

What to watch

  • Requires separate installation for each coding environment
  • Skills can misfire or agents can deviate from plans
  • Long Hermes Agent sessions can lose the bootstrap after compaction

Who Superpowers is for

Developers and engineering teams using coding agents

  • Clarifying software requirements before implementation
  • Turning approved designs into implementation plans
  • Executing coding tasks with subagents and reviews
  • Applying test-driven development and systematic debugging
  • Diagnosing coding-agent session failures

Superpowers FAQ

What is Superpowers?

Superpowers is an open-source skills framework and software development methodology for coding agents. Superpowers combines composable skills and initial instructions to guide requirements discovery, design approval, implementation planning, testing, debugging, and code review.

Is Superpowers free?

Superpowers is available as an open-source project under the MIT license through its public GitHub repository. Superpowers also offers commercial support, additional tooling, and managed spending for enterprise users through a sales contact.

Which coding agents does Superpowers support?

Superpowers provides installation instructions for Claude Code, Antigravity, Codex App, Codex CLI, Cursor, Devin CLI, Factory Droid, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Grok Build CLI, Kimi Code, OpenCode, Pi, Qwen Code, Hermes Agent, and Muse. Superpowers requires separate installation for each environment.

How does Superpowers handle software development tasks?

Superpowers starts by clarifying requirements and obtaining design approval before generating an implementation plan. Superpowers then supports subagent-driven execution with reviews between tasks or inline execution with a final branch review, alongside test-driven development and verification.

Can Superpowers diagnose coding-agent session problems?

Superpowers includes a diagnosing-superpowers skill that examines session transcripts when skills misfire, agents ignore plans, work repeats, or token use is unexpectedly high. Superpowers reports findings with line-level evidence and can package a scrubbed bundle for a bug report.

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