πŸ”₯ Hot Repo: 210K Stars β€” Forces Claude to Delete Untested Code

obra/superpowers has exploded to 210K GitHub stars in 7 months: a skills framework that turns Claude Code into a disciplined engineering team with mandatory TDD, subagent-driven development, and a 7-step workflow β€” now the top plugin on Anthropic’s official marketplace.

By OMC Editorial on 2026-05-28

One-liner β€” obra/superpowers is a skills framework that injects a complete software development methodology β€” spec, plan, TDD, subagent execution, code review β€” into Claude Code and seven other coding agents. - Repo: obra/superpowershttps://github.com/obra/superpowers - Stars: ⭐ 210,586 +trending today on GitHub daily - Language: Shell - License: MIT License --- What It Does Superpowers installs a set of composable Markdown skill files into your coding agent that automatically activate at the right moment in your workflow. When you ask Claude Code to build something, the agent doesn't jump into code β€” it runs a structured 7-phase sequence: brainstorm a spec reviewed in chunks, set up a git worktree, write an implementation plan broken into 2–5 minute tasks, dispatch fresh subagents per task with two-stage review, enforce TDD with a rule that deletes code written before tests exist, and present merge or PR options at the end. The same skill folder works identically across Claude Code, Codex CLI, Codex App, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Factory Droid. Why It's Blowing Up Jesse Vincent published Superpowers on October 9, 2025 β€” the same day Anthropic launched the Claude Code plugin system β€” and it found product-market fit immediately. By January 2026 it had 30K stars; by March, 94K; by April, 150K; today it sits at 210K, making it one of the fastest-growing open-source projects of the year and a daily-trending fixture on GitHub. The timing is deliberate. Claude Code shipped increasingly powerful autonomous capabilities, but powerful β‰  disciplined: agents jumped straight to code, skipped tests, and produced demos that collapsed under real engineering review. Superpowers is the antidote. It replaces improvisation with a software development culture encoded in Markdown β€” every session gets a spec you review in chunks, an implementation plan you sign off on, and a TDD cycle that will literally delete code written before a failing test is i