superpowers Codex Plugin
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Superpowers is a plugin that gives coding agents a structured software development methodology, covering idea refinement, implementation planning, test-driven development, debugging, and branch completion. According to its README, it bundles a library of composable skills that trigger automatically as the agent works through a task, rather than requiring manual invocation. It is built by Jesse Vincent and distributed under the MIT license, and the plugin.json lists it in the Developer Tools category. It can be installed into several coding agent environments, including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, and others, with installation steps differing by platform.
What you can do with superpowers
- Refine a rough idea into a written design through the brainstorming skill before any code is written
- Break an approved design into small, verifiable tasks using writing-plans
- Run implementation through subagent-driven-development or executing-plans, with per-task review
- Enforce a red-green-refactor cycle during coding via test-driven-development
- Work through bugs systematically with systematic-debugging and verification-before-completion
- Request and respond to structured code review using requesting-code-review and receiving-code-review
- Manage isolated branches and worktrees, then merge or clean up with using-git-worktrees and finishing-a-development-branch
- Author new skills for the framework following the writing-skills guide