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An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

76 mentions on Hacker News by 63 people: 16 stories, 60 comments · first 2025-10-11 · latest 2026-09-26

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  1. …“Superpowers”[1] and “Gas Town”[2]. Posting as I don’t see any discussion on it here yet. [1] https://github.com/obra/superpowers [2] https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown
    comment by harveynick · 2026-02-18 · in Claude Code is powerful. Pilot makes it reliable
  2. …Vincent), quintessential hacker and was a leader in the Perl community back in the day (still?). https://github.com/obra/superpowers
    comment by Multiplayer · 2026-02-15 · in Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
  3. Add https://github.com/obra/superpowers and then try again.
    comment by esaym · 2026-02-15 · in Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
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    Show HN: Metaswarm: Production-ready agent swarms, MIT license
    story by dsifry · 2026-02-03 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: 127 PRs to Prod this wknd with 18 AI agents: metaswarm. MIT licensed
    story by dsifry · 2026-02-03 · 2 comments
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    Superpowers – An agentic skills framework for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode
    story by rob · 2026-01-28 · 0 comments
  7. …more involved than Superpowers with more commands. Maybe it'd be better for larger projects. [0] https://github.com/obra/superpowers [1] https://github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done
    comment by rob · 2026-01-27 · in A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
  8. I have had good success with the plans generated by https://github.com/obra/superpowers I also really like the Socratic method it uses to create the plans.
    comment by colelyman · 2026-01-24 · in Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
  9. …breakthrough when someone finally figures out a good system for having the llm do this. I've found https://github.com/obra/superpowers very helpful for breaking the work up into logical chunks a subagent can handle.
    comment by AnonyX387 · 2026-01-19 · in Provide agents with automated feedback
  10. …skills are really quite useful and there is a lot of usage + community - e.g. take a look at https://github.com/obra/superpowers which I know is used by a lot of people to smooth out their workflow with Claude with great results (not…
    comment by cliftonc · 2026-01-16 · in First impressions of Claude Cowork
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    Mo' Power is Mo' Betta': Superpowers for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode
    story by bigwheels · 2026-01-15 · 0 comments
  12. …external storage solutions to custom shell scripts to ... BTW, I still find "superpowers" from https://github.com/obra/superpowers to be the single best improvement to Claude (and other providers) even if it's just another in a long…
    comment by troupo · 2026-01-07 · in Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
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    Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
    story by petesergeant · 2025-12-29 · 0 comments
  14. Superpowers is amazing. https://github.com/obra/superpowers
    comment by linesofcode · 2025-12-21 · in Ask HN: What public Claude Code MCPs, Skills do you have installed and use?
  15. My favorite set of tools to use with Claude Code right now: https://github.com/obra/superpowers 1. Start with the ‘brainstorm’ session where you explain your feature or the task that you're trying to complete. 2. Allow it to write up a…
    comment by jdelsman · 2025-12-13 · in Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
  16. …but it will develop that skill-set. Try Claude code in thinking mode with the some super powers - https://github.com/obra/superpowers I routinely make an implementation plan with Claude and then step away for 15 mins while it spins - the…
    comment by linesofcode · 2025-12-10 · in Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
  17. …of it’s output. Give Claude Code a try, with git work trees and especially some skills pre-loaded https://github.com/obra/superpowers
    comment by linesofcode · 2025-12-05 · in Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM?
  18. …promising, I’m interested in trying it. My approach is to combine beads with superpowers skills https://github.com/obra/superpowers I’m wondering how does it compare to this, gonna give it a try, thanks!
    comment by hmokiguess · 2025-11-28 · in Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent
  19. This works surprisingly well for Claude: https://github.com/obra/superpowers (in the context of rather small side projects in Elixir). Unless, of course, the phase of the moon is wrong and Claude itself is stupid beyond all reason
    comment by troupo · 2025-11-20 · in Google Antigravity
  20. …tells me I'll end up spending my weekend on my bed. [1] https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban [2] https://github.com/obra/superpowers
    comment by hamasho · 2025-11-09 · in Show HN: Hephaestus – Autonomous Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework
  21. …shared by ~200 engineers for context, and have never been more stoked on claude code ouput. [1] https://github.com/obra/superpowers
    comment by Syntaf · 2025-10-23 · in Claude Memory
  22. Seems like the exact same thing, from front page a few days ago: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/main
    comment by crancher · 2025-10-16 · in Claude Skills
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    Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
    story by uneven9434 · 2025-10-14 · 0 comments
  24. The "How to create skills" link is broken. This is the new location: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/personal-superpower...
    comment by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF · 2025-10-11 · in Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
  25. documents like https://github.com/obra/superpowers/blob/main/skills/testing... are very confusing to read as a human. "skills" in this project generally don't seem to follow set format and just look like what you would get when prompting…
    comment by hoechst · 2025-10-11 · in Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
  26. …these tools is wildly more ambitious than most other people. Spend some time digging around in his https://github.com/obra/Superpowers repo. I wrote some notes on this last night: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/superpowers/
    comment by simonw · 2025-10-11 · in Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025