Superpowers: new agent skill framework
A new open-source project, Superpowers, surfaced as an agent skill framework for coding agents — it gives a workflow to define, share, and reuse agent 'skills' that plug into standard development processes reported. The project targets developer ergonomics: composeable actions for refactoring, code review, and automation.
obra's Superpowers repository shows 76.2k [stars github.com] and 5.9k [forks github.com], with a v5.0.0 release pushed roughly 18 hours before the repository [snapshot github.com]. The project is authored by Jesse Vincent (GitHub handle obra) [github.com], the open-source developer known for creating the Request Tracker ticketing system (RT) [en.wikipedia.org]. The repo's skills/ directory explicitly lists modules named test-driven-development, subagent-driven-development, brainstorming, and using-git-worktrees, each implemented as SKILL.md-driven plans and [checklists github.com]. Superpowers includes plugin directories such as.claude-plugin and.cursor-plugin in the [tree github.com], and its Codex integration docs describe native skill discovery that scans ~/.agents/skills for SKILL.md frontmatter to load skills on [demand github.com]. Coverage of the project documents rapid adoption: one tracker counted a 1,867-star gain on March 16, [2026 byteiota.com], and multiple community write-ups reported the repo in the tens of thousands of stars bracket during March [2026 betterstack.com]. Architecturally the framework enforces red/green TDD cycles, parallel subagent-driven development with Git worktrees, and a two-stage review pattern (spec-compliance then code-quality), and the v5.0.0 release notes call out visual brainstorming and document-review loops as new [capabilities github.com].
