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Engineering Workflow

Superpowers

Gives agents «brainstorm → plan → test → build» discipline

  • workflow
  • TDD
  • debugging
  • code review
Platform
Claude Code / Cursor / Codex etc.
Pricing
Free & open source
Author
Jesse Vincent (obra)

Install

npx skills add obra/superpowers

Overview

Jesse Vincent's (obra) collection of engineering workflow skills: brainstorming, implementation plans, TDD, systematic debugging, requesting and receiving code review… It makes AI coding follow disciplined process instead of typing at full speed. The most-installed workflow pack on skills.sh.

Key features

  • Enforces «brainstorm, then plan, then code»
  • TDD: failing tests first, implementation second
  • Systematic debugging: reproduce → hypothesize → verify
  • Parallel subagents and code-review workflows

Use cases

  • Tired of ten-thousand-line one-shot generations
  • Multi-day features that need context management
  • Aligning AI output with team engineering standards
Best for

Required reading if you use AI coding seriously.

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