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Writing Production-Quality Code with AI
Over time, I built up useful set skills and after enjoying the amazing Superpowers, I realized I needed to organize my skills into a plugin. This is the birth of PAAD, which provides defense-in-depth for AI-assisted programming. The process is roughly:
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Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
Yea, we like obra/superpowers a lot. For folks who are unaware, see: https://github.com/obra/superpowers
the original version of our high autonomy skillset was a fork of obra's superpowers back in...October? November? of last year. Whenever it first came out.
I think basically all of the best skillsets implement SPACE, including superpowers, mattpocock skills, get shit done, etc. There are aesthetic reasons why you might prefer one over the other, but candidly I think any of them will get the job done and are strictly better than not using one of the SPACE skillsets.
(I haven't played with the latest version of superpowers. My hunch is that on average our skillsets have better compliance rates with the models because of some of the ways in which we write the skills themselves, but its a hunch)
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Superpowers vs Plain Old Debugger in Explyt
Superpowers was created by Jesse Vincent and the Prime Radiant team. Matt Pocock helped popularize it; the collection includes a systematic-debugging skill. I ran Opus 5 on the same real bug and the same prompt twice. The only thing I changed was the debugging workflow: Superpowers in one run, Explyt's built-in Debug skill in the other.
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Agents don't fail at writing code — they fail at everything around it
Apache-2.0, and two of them consolidate ideas from other skill authors — notably Jesse Vincent's Superpowers suite, which is worth reading on its own.
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Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
I like using grill me in conjunction with obra superpowers spec driven development
https://www.aihero.dev/skills-grill-me
https://github.com/obra/superpowers
When I'm doing something quite complex I'll also throw in gstack office hours but I find that its usually overkill for many things
https://github.com/garrytan/gstack
I do often use the /qa skill regardless though. I always hated QA because it was so monotonous and it required a level of organization and creativity i never had (i mean im the developer so if I thought of edge cases id have solved for them)
I like that /qa covers and documents every edge case that it tested and I can nudge it about other ones
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Superpowers Quickstart: Install, Workflow, and Tryout
Agent Install command Codex App Plugins sidebar -> Coding section -> install Superpowers Codex CLI /plugins, search superpowers, select Install Plugin Antigravity agy plugin install https://github.com/obra/superpowers Devin CLI devin plugins install obra/superpowers Factory Droid droid plugin marketplace add https://github.com/obra/superpowers then droid plugin install superpowers@superpowers Gemini CLI gemini extensions install https://github.com/obra/superpowers GitHub Copilot CLI copilot plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace then copilot plugin install superpowers@superpowers-marketplace Grok Build CLI grok plugin install superpowers@xai-official --trust Kimi Code /plugins install https://github.com/obra/superpowers OpenCode Fetch and follow .opencode/INSTALL.md from the repo (separate install even if already used elsewhere) Pi pi install git:github.com/obra/superpowers Hermes Agent hermes plugins install obra/superpowers --enable
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Superpowers for Coding Agents: Turn Vague Requests Into Tested Changes
Superpowers is a methodology and a set of composable skills intended to change that default. Rather than treating code generation as the first step, it asks the agent to clarify the outcome, develop and get approval for a design, make an implementation plan, use true red/green test-driven development, carry out the work in small tasks, and review what was built.
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Claude Skills: what they are and how to use them
obra/superpowers on GitHub: An MIT-licensed skills framework and development methodology, with documented install paths for Claude Code and other agents.
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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
The cool kids have custom harnesses and workflows and stuff, yeah. I'm still using Superpowers in Codex. Planning in Sol, Luna subagents. https://github.com/obra/superpowers
I feel like I could be doing a lot better somehow. Regardless though Luna (xhigh specifically) is super good/cheap/fast for a lot of things
what about you
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Four AI Agent Skills That Make Coding Workflows Sharper
Once the direction is clear, Superpowers supplies the broader development workflow. Its repository describes a process where an agent clarifies the actual outcome, develops a specification and design, gets approval, creates an implementation plan, emphasizes true red/green TDD, and proceeds through implementation and review. It also supports subagent-driven development for work that has real task boundaries.
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