Jesse Vincent recently released Superpowers 2.0, an update that extracts skills into a standalone git-repository so they can be forked, managed locally, customized, and shared. Instead of living inside a monolithic project, skills now sit in a developer-friendly directory structure that can be versioned and synchronized independently.
But there’s more: the tool is already getting traction with Claude Code’s newly added Skills support — and early testers (including us) are pretty positive about the developer experience.
What is Superpowers?
Superpowers is essentially a “core skills library” for Claude Code: a curated set of reusable agent-skills, workflows and patterns designed to give Claude “superpowers” when you’re doing software engineering tasks. According to its GitHub README:
- It provides Testing Skills (e.g., TDD, async testing, anti-patterns) and Debugging Skills (root-cause tracing, verification) and Collaboration Skills (brainstorming, planning, code-review) and Meta Skills (creating, sharing skills) among others. ([GitHub][1])
- It includes Slash Commands such as
/superpowers:brainstorm,/superpowers:write-plan,/superpowers:execute-planthat map to specific skills. ([GitHub][1]) - The idea is that skills live in the repository under directories like
skills/testing/,skills/debugging/,skills/collaboration/,skills/meta/— making it easy to locate, customize or contribute new ones. ([GitHub][1]) - It’s built to integrate with Claude’s first-party “skills system” (for Claude Code) so that skills can be automatically discovered, automatically activated when relevant, and enforced as part of workflows. ([GitHub][1])
In short: if you’re using Claude Code as your agent platform, Superpowers is a plug-in / library of engineered skill-modules to help streamline software-engineering workflows for the agent (and the human interacting with it).
Why this matters
For developers building agent-workflows, this change significantly reduces friction around:
- Distributing and maintaining agent skills
- Customizing skills to your own domain or workflow
- Version-controlling your agent-skill set as you would your code
- Integrating agent work into normal software-engineering practices
If Claude Code’s native handling of skills continues to mature — especially around autonomous skill invocation — then the days of heavily bespoke bootstrap scripts may be numbered.
Want to dive deeper?
Check out Jesse Vincent’s original post (with logs, screenshots, release-notes): https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/12/superpowers-20-came-out-yesterday-and-might-already-be-obsolete/ And the GitHub repo of Superpowers: https://github.com/obra/superpowers
