🛠️ Tool
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Opening: Superpowers is presented as a complete development workflow for coding agents built from composable "skills" and starter instructions. The system focuses on turning a user conversation into a validated design, then into an executable implementation plan that agents carry out.
Key Features:
• Spec elicitation and chunked design review: The agent pauses to extract a spec and presents it in digestible sections for human approval.
• Task-level planning: The system breaks work into short tasks (target 2–5 minute increments) with exact file paths and verification steps.
• Subagent-driven development: Each task is handled by a fresh subagent that performs a two-stage review (spec compliance and code quality) before moving forward.
• Test-driven development enforcement: The workflow emphasizes RED-GREEN-REFACTOR, deletes code written before tests, and applies YAGNI and DRY principles.
• Branch isolation via git worktrees: Workspaces are created per branch to keep test baselines clean and isolated.
Technical Implementation (conceptual):
• The architecture composes discrete skills that trigger automatically as the agent progresses through phases: brainstorming, writing-plans, executing-plans (subagent-driven), requesting-code-review, and finishing-a-development-branch.
• Plans include precise task definitions, file-level changes, and verification steps, enabling automated subagents to run with minimal context.
Use Cases:
• Autonomous implementation of well-scoped feature requests.
• Rapid prototyping where an agent can run several hours on a validated plan.
• Enforcing TDD and short-task paradigms across distributed agent workers.
Limitations and Considerations:
• The approach assumes reliable subagent infrastructure and test harness availability; without them the workflow may stall.
• Behavioral guarantees depend on the quality of initial instructions and skill implementations.
• Human checkpoints remain integral for design acceptance and for handling ambiguous specs.
References:
• Core workflow terms: subagent-driven-development, TDD (RED-GREEN-REFACTOR), YAGNI, DRY, git worktrees.
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🔗 Source: https://github.com/obra/superpowers
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