An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
Market Signal
Why It Has Market Pull
Superpowers is an open-source agentic-skills framework and software-development methodology for Claude Code, built by a veteran open-source developer. It ships dozens of composable skills - brainstorming, plan-writing, TDD, adversarial subagent review - and was accepted into Anthropic's official Claude Code plugin marketplace.
- ~233k GitHub stars and ~20.7k forks - one of the fastest-growing dev repos in the Claude Code ecosystem
- Zero to ~233k stars in roughly 8 months; latest release v6.0.3 in June 2026 with active cadence
- Accepted into Anthropic's official Claude Code plugin marketplace - institutional validation
- Ships ~86 composable skills plus headline workflows (TDD, subagent self-review, verification)
- Creator is a well-known open-source developer with deep ecosystem credibility
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What People Are Saying
"The way Jesse is using these tools is wildly more ambitious than most other people"HN comment
"the brainstorming skill is great. It helps flesh out a rough early idea"HN comment
"it uses subagents to adversarially review its own spec/plan; that has caught several things I would've missed"HN comment
"I personally don't like superpowers very much... Claude makes more mistakes when using it"HN comment
"It's still the same Claude... Just don't believe it's a silver bullet"HN comment
"a must-have imo... forces claude to create sub agents, stops short cuts, cut error rate substantially"X reply



















