Superpowers from design to verification

Jesse Vincent’s Superpowers bundles skills for planning, implementing and checking software changes with a coding agent. For a new feature, the workflow starts by settling the desired behavior, turns the design into a plan, then applies the skills needed for implementation and verification. Superpowers repository

01Install

In the Codex app, search for Superpowers in Plugins. In the Codex CLI, open /plugins and search for the same name. In Claude Code, use the official marketplace command below. Install separately in each agent you use. Official installation guide

/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official

02Start with a feature that has clear existing behavior

Suppose a search page needs a better empty state. This prompt gives brainstorming a decision to make and implementation a behavior to preserve.

Add a clear-search button when there are no search results.
Keep the status filter and support keyboard use.
Read the current behavior first, then propose design options.

%% From the empty search screen to a verified change
flowchart TD
  A["Read the current behavior"]
  A --> B["Choose button placement and focus"]
  B --> C["Implement and preserve the status filter"]
  C --> D["Check keyboard behavior"]

1. 1In brainstorming, settle where the button goes and where keyboard focus goes after activation.
2. 2In the plan, record how to verify that the status filter stays selected and the button works from the keyboard.
3. 3After implementation, inspect the actual test results or reproduce the behavior in a browser.

03Using it alongside Ponytail

Superpowers structures the decisions and checks around a change. Ponytail helps look for a smaller implementation within that process, such as reusing an existing component. Scale the workflow to the task. A wording change takes little planning, while a hard-to-reproduce bug is a good starting point for systematic debugging. Superpowers workflow