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Superpowers

GitHub Repo Pretty sure · Jesse Vincent ships real code
https://github.com/obra/superpowers

Methodology framework dressed as a plugin — systematizes what good pair programming already does, but sells it as revolutionary agent coordination when it's really just TDD + communication + git discipline.

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Superpowers is a structured prompt collection + plugin framework that enforces TDD, brainstorming-before-code, and systematic planning. Not novel — these are SDE best practices from 2005. The actual contribution is wrapping them in agent-callable 'skills' so Claude/Cursor/Copilot follow them. That's real signal for teams drowning in AI-generated chaos. But: the README sells it as 'subagent-driven-development' methodology (0.3 slop tax right there), when it's really 'make agents follow enginee...

85439 stars Shell 2026-03-15 157 days old

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