Jesse Vincent Superpowers

Superpowers is a methodology rather than a menu. Its skills are meant to fire automatically at the moments that decide whether agent work succeeds: brainstorming and design sign-off before implementation, a written plan detailed enough for a context-free engineer, strict red-green test-driven development, subagent execution with per-task review, and verification evidence before anyone claims success. The through-line is process over improvisation and evidence over assertion, enforced by a rule that the agent must check for an applicable skill before it responds.

The methodology is deliberately heavy. Brainstorming, chunked design review, and a full written plan add real friction to small or already-clear changes, and the automatic skill-invocation rule can feel rigid. Its richest behavior assumes a harness with subagents, hooks, and a plugin marketplace, so the experience is uneven across agents even though the skills themselves travel well.