Superpowers (obra)
Skills framework/methodology: verification-before-completion, writing-plans, executing-plans, systematic-debugging, TDD, subagent-driven development.
Community
What it helps with
verification-before-completion and plan/execute skills directly target 'claimed done but not verified' and long-task drift.
Agent jobs: Venture operator, Any agent
Capability gaps: Quality verification, Long-task durability, Deploy & release
Security scan and details
- Scan result
- Vetted pass · 2026-10-17
- Scan notes
- Automated scan: pass (no medium+ findings) at commit bb92a7774141 on 2026-10-17.
- License
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 301,108
- Last updated
- 2026-10-10
- Cost
- free
- Source
- github.com/obra/superpowers
- Repo
- obra/superpowers
Automated static scan of the source at a pinned commit (custom prompt-injection, malware and exfiltration rules plus semgrep, gitleaks and osv-scanner); flagged lines get a manual review. Hosted APIs with no code to scan stay at Needs review. A scan lowers risk; it doesn't prove safety.
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