Subagent-driven development
Splits work across subagents with their own context windows so a long task does not degrade as the transcript grows.
Installation
$ npx skills add obra/superpowersThe CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in obra/superpowers, not subagent-driven-development alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.
Summary
Splits work across subagents with their own context windows so a long task does not degrade as the transcript grows.
- Reach for it when the job is big enough that quality visibly drops before it finishes.
- Sits in Implement — writing the change: framework-specific conventions, and the discipline that keeps a long agent run on the rails.
- Stack-agnostic — nothing in it assumes a particular language or framework.
- Published by Jesse Vincent. Well regarded, but not the vendor of the thing it covers.
- Installing pulls the whole obra/superpowers repository: this catalogue lists 13 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.
Where it sits in delivery
ImplementWriting the change: framework-specific conventions, and the discipline that keeps a long agent run on the rails.Everything in Build →
The agent itself
The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.
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