obra/superpowers-skills

31 agent skills in one repository, published by obra. One command installs the lot; each skill also has its own page below.

1. Brainstorming Ideas Into Designs

   Interactive idea refinement using Socratic method to develop fully-formed designs

2. Code Review ReceptionReview & testing

   Receive and act on code review feedback with technical rigor, not performative agreement or blind implementation

3. Collision-Zone Thinking

   Force unrelated concepts together to discover emergent properties - "What if we treated X like Y?

4. Condition-Based Waiting

   Replace arbitrary timeouts with condition polling for reliable async tests

5. Defense-in-Depth Validation

   Validate at every layer data passes through to make bugs impossible

6. Dispatching Parallel Agents

   Use multiple Claude agents to investigate and fix independent problems concurrently

7. Executing Plans

   Execute detailed plans in batches with review checkpoints

8. Finishing a Development Branch

   Complete feature development with structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup

9. Gardening Skills Wiki

   Maintain skills wiki health - check links, naming, cross-references, and coverage

10. Getting Started with Skills

    Skills wiki intro - mandatory workflows, search tool, brainstorming triggers

11. Inversion Exercise

    Flip core assumptions to reveal hidden constraints and alternative approaches - "what if the opposite were true?

12. Meta-Pattern Recognition

    Spot patterns appearing in 3+ domains to find universal principles

13. Preserving Productive Tensions

    Recognize when disagreements reveal valuable context, preserve multiple valid approaches instead of forcing premature resolution

14. Pulling Updates from Skills Repository

    Sync local skills repository with upstream changes from obra/superpowers-skills

15. Remembering Conversations

    Search previous Claude Code conversations for facts, patterns, decisions, and context using semantic or text search

16. Requesting Code ReviewReview & testing

    Dispatch code-reviewer subagent to review implementation against plan or requirements before proceeding

17. Root Cause Tracing

    Systematically trace bugs backward through call stack to find original trigger

18. Scale Game

    Test at extremes (1000x bigger/smaller, instant/year-long) to expose fundamental truths hidden at normal scales

19. Sharing Skills

    Contribute skills back to upstream via branch and PR

20. Simplification Cascades

    Find one insight that eliminates multiple components - "if this is true, we don't need X, Y, or Z

21. Subagent-Driven DevelopmentReview & testing

    Execute implementation plan by dispatching fresh subagent for each task, with code review between tasks

22. Systematic DebuggingReview & testing

    Four-phase debugging framework that ensures root cause investigation before attempting fixes. Never jump to solutions.

23. Test-Driven Development (TDD)

    Write the test first, watch it fail, write minimal code to pass

24. Testing Anti-Patterns

    Never test mock behavior. Never add test-only methods to production classes. Understand dependencies before mocking.

25. Testing Skills With SubagentsWriting & docs

    RED-GREEN-REFACTOR for process documentation - baseline without skill, write addressing failures, iterate closing loopholes

26. Tracing Knowledge Lineages

    Understand how ideas evolved over time to find old solutions for new problems and avoid repeating past failures

27. Using Git Worktrees

    Create isolated git worktrees with smart directory selection and safety verification

28. Verification Before Completion

    Run verification commands and confirm output before claiming success

29. When Stuck - Problem-Solving Dispatch

    Dispatch to the right problem-solving technique based on how you're stuck

30. Writing Plans

    Create detailed implementation plans with bite-sized tasks for engineers with zero codebase context

31. Writing SkillsWriting & docs

    TDD for process documentation - test with subagents before writing, iterate until bulletproof