From an SEO/LLMO perspective, the discoverability of these skills will be difficult without a rename: https://agentskills.io/

If Addy reads this, how do you pitch this vs. Superpowers? https://github.com/obra/superpowers

▲ consumer451 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I would love to know how many people are actually using superpowers.

I showed up on the agentic dev scene prior to superpowers, and I am getting concerned that >50% of my self-rolled processes are now covered by superpowers.

I no longer trust gh stars, can anyone chime in? Is superpowers now truly adopted?

If it is truly valuable, why hasn't Boris integrated the concepts yet?

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supermdguy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've used it off and on over the last month or so. For more complicated tasks (30+ minutes) it works well, and seems to replace a lot of prompting that I'd normally need to do (e.g. asking questions about requirements, creating specs and implementation plans, staying on task). For simple tasks, it tries to do too much and gets in the way.

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marcus_holmes 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I adopted superpowers, but then adapted it. I've changed some things, added some things. I suspect that my set of agent skills is probably overlapping with OP's by quite a lot now.

I also found that I have different skills for different tasks; at work security is a huge concern and I over-emphasise security in the skills. At play I'm less bothered about security and so the skills I've written to help me build stupid one-shot exploratory websites are less about security and more about refactoring and exploring concepts.

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RideOnTime22 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's just the new thing.

People were hyping up Oh My Opencode. When they realized it didn't lead to any significant gains in performance they hopped on the next thing.

And when the same thing happens to Superpowers it'll be something else they cling on because "this time it's different"

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nullstyle 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I just removed superpowers from my own setup. In my opinion, given the quality of the planning modes in both claude code and codex, superpowers was really just slowing things down and burning more tokens than vanilla.

	▲	consumer451 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Thank you for the data point. To give back as much as I can, I use the two built-in CC review processes when appropriate. But, those only do "is this PR good code?" Far too late did I finally roll my own custom review skill that tests: "does this PR accomplish what the specs required?" If I could ask for one more vanilla CC skill, it might be that. However, maybe rolling your own repo-aware skill via prompt is better?
	▲	ramoz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It never worked well for me. The only thing I really needed outside of the harnesses was a better plan review surface. https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator
	▲	horsawlarway 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		anecdata, but I ended up in the same spot. I used superpowers - but it burns waay more tokens for basically the same outcome as a single line that states "Please do planning and ask any required questions before implementing. [my prompt]" On the latest models and with a decent harness, the planning modes are quite good, and the single sentence telling it to ask you questions lets the model pick the right thing to ask about, instead of wasting a bunch of time/tokens on predefined skills that try to force basically the same result. It does introduce a second set of required interactions, but you can have another agent be your "questions answerer" if you need it (result quality goes down a bit vs answering myself, but still quite good, especially if you spend a bit of time on the answerer prompt) Basically - things are moving fast enough I'm not convinced buying into superpowers/agentskills/[daily prompt magic beans]/etc tooling really makes sense. I'd stick to the defaults in the harness for most cases, and then work on being clear with the ask.

▲ ssgodderidge 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is like creating a React framework called ReactJS to compete with NextJS

▲ esafak 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Looks like a bunch of canned skills served through a plugin?

▲ ricardobeat 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does superpowers actually work? The main skill file doesn't inspire much confidence:

    "If you think there is even a 1% chance a skill might apply to what you are doing, you ABSOLUTELY MUST invoke the skill."

	▲	CharlesW 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This kind of "overprompting" is one technique that even the best skills/agents use to compensate for under-invocation, which happens when more demure advisory language tends to be rationalized away by LLMs. It shouldn't be your default, but should absolutely be tried when your skill/agent test suite displays evidence that it's not being reliably invoked without it.