superpowers — Agent Skill Profile

What it actually does

Bundles skills for brainstorming, planning, test-driven development, systematic debugging, and code review into one opinionated development methodology.
Ships its own self-hosted plugin marketplace (`superpowers-dev`) rather than distributing as a loose SKILL.md.

When to use it — and when not to

Use it when

You want Claude Code to actually follow a repeatable process — plan, then TDD, then review — rather than freehand its way through a task.
You're standardizing how a team's agent works across a whole project, not just one job.

Not for

You need one narrow capability. This installs a whole methodology, not a composable single skill.
You don't intend to follow the workflow it enforces — its value is entirely in the discipline, not in any one sub-skill used alone.

The caveat that matters

It's opinionated about process, not just capability — it only helps if you actually work the way it wants you to.

Agent compatibility

Claude Code

Confirmed means the skill’s own source or vendor states it works with that agent. Portable means it only reaches that agent through the shared SKILL.md format and a directory convention — real, but a weaker claim. An agent with no entry here isn’t known to be unsupported; it simply isn’t documented either way, so nothing is claimed. Full model on Agent Skills Compatibility.

Requirements and operational surface

Depends on

Claude Code plugin marketplace (`superpowers-dev`)

Workflow fit

Brainstorm → plan → TDD implementation → systematic debugging → code review.

Evidence and provenance

Maintained by obra (Jesse Vincent) (community). Primary source: obra/superpowers, last checked against this page’s claims on August 16, 2026. This page summarizes and analyzes that source — it isn’t a copy of its SKILL.md or README, and installation happens at the source, not here.

Also covered in The Best Claude Code Skills, part of the Claude Code guide.