superpowers-plus

Superpowers Plus

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Superpowers Plus is an enhanced workflow skill set evolved from upstream superpowers, designed for coding agent environments like Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Gemini CLI. It retains the "design → plan → execute → verify" core workflow but unifies execution routing, subagent context control, and installation entry points within this repository instead of relying on the upstream.

How it works

It starts from the moment you fire up your coding agent. As soon as it sees that you're building something, it doesn't just jump into trying to write code. Instead, it steps back and asks you what you're really trying to do.

Once it's teased a spec out of the conversation, it shows it to you in chunks short enough to actually read and digest.

After you've signed off on the design, your agent puts together an implementation plan that's clear enough for an enthusiastic junior engineer with poor taste, no judgement, no project context, and an aversion to testing to follow. It emphasizes true red/green TDD, YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It), and DRY.

Next up, once you say "go", it launches an executing-plans process that automatically chooses parallel or serial subagent routing based on task dependency, then inspects and reviews the work as it goes. It's not uncommon for Claude to be able to work autonomously for a couple hours at a time without deviating from the plan you put together.

There's a bunch more to it, but that's the core of the system. And because the skills trigger automatically, you don't need to do anything special. Your coding agent just has Superpowers Plus.

Key Changes from Upstream Superpowers

Superpowers Plus tracks upstream superpowers closely — including its full execution model (executing-plans for parallel-session execution and subagent-driven-development for same-session execution). On top of upstream, this fork adds the following.

Additional skills (available, invoke explicitly when relevant):

• bootstrapping-repository-memory / curating-repository-memory — initialize and maintain durable, repository-level memory.
• acceptance-testing / writing-acceptance-criteria — derive acceptance criteria from an approved spec and verify against them.
• distilling-lessons — capture reusable lessons into memory.

These extra skills are not wired into the default workflow automatically — invoke them by name when you need them.

Localization and multi-harness install:

• Chinese documentation (README.zh-CN and install guides).
• Install entry points unified to this repository for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and Gemini CLI.

This is not a complete changelog, but rather the differences users need to know.

Installation

Superpowers Plus installation entry points are unified to this repository:

• GitHub: https://github.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus
• Codex install script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus/refs/heads/main/.codex/INSTALL.md
• OpenCode install script: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus/refs/heads/main/.opencode/INSTALL.md

Claude Code

We recommend installing directly from the repository rather than relying on the upstream marketplace:

Quick Install (Recommended):

git clone https://github.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus.git ~/.claude/superpowers-plus
bash ~/.claude/superpowers-plus/.claude-plugin/install.sh

Manual Install:

git clone https://github.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus.git ~/.claude/superpowers-plus
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cd ~/.claude/superpowers-plus/skills
for skill in */; do
  skill_name="${skill%/}"
  ln -sf "$HOME/.claude/superpowers-plus/skills/$skill_name" "$HOME/.claude/skills/superpowers:$skill_name"
done

Note: Claude Code only scans direct subdirectories under ~/.claude/skills/, so you need to create individual symlinks for each skill rather than linking the entire skills directory.

Verify Installation:

ls ~/.claude/skills/ | grep superpowers:

You should see multiple symlinks starting with superpowers:.

Cursor

Currently, we recommend using the skill directory approach, exposing skills/ to Cursor's discoverable skill path. If your Cursor environment supports repository-type skill sources, please use xhyqaq/superpowers-plus directly.

Codex

Tell Codex:

Fetch and follow instructions from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus/refs/heads/main/.codex/INSTALL.md

Detailed docs: docs/README.codex.md

OpenCode

Tell OpenCode:

Fetch and follow instructions from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus/refs/heads/main/.opencode/INSTALL.md

Detailed docs: docs/README.opencode.md

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/xhyqaq/superpowers-plus

To update: