An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
Market Signal
Why It Has Market Pull
Superpowers is the breakout agentic-skills framework for AI coding agents, built by Jesse Vincent (obra) and accepted into Anthropic's official Claude Code plugin marketplace in early 2026. With 226.7k stars and 20.1k forks it is among the most-starred AI developer projects of the year, and momentum is clearly real rather than launch-day froth given sustained commits and a v5.x release line.
- 226,697 GitHub stars and 20,147 forks as of June 2026 - among the largest AI-tooling repos in existence
- Live and actively maintained: last push June 12 2026, 5 tagged releases through v5.1.0, MIT-licensed, created October 2025
- Accepted into Anthropic's official Claude Code plugin marketplace in January 2026, signaling first-party credibility
- Multiple repeat appearances on Hacker News, including a dedicated review thread (~50 points, ~25 comments)
- Ships installers for 7 agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Factory Droid, Copilot CLI), widening reach beyond one ecosystem
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What People Are Saying
"Its core workflow is: brainstorm a spec, use subagents to review the spec, get your approval, then write a plan."HN comment
"I personally don't like superpowers very much. My boss does. Claude makes more mistakes when using it than when not."HN comment
"Don't believe it's a silver bullet - it doesn't hurt to try, but it's not magic."HN comment
"I often just tell it to go after reading the design doc."HN comment
"The install mechanism on codex and opencode is interesting - fetch and follow instructions from a raw GitHub URL."HN comment
"STOP everything you're doing and start using SuperPowers."Substack article
"I gave Claude Code a brain - and it has the GitHub stars to back it up."Medium article






















