Writing plans
The plan format the rest of the superpowers library executes against — ordered, checkable steps rather than prose.
Installation
$ npx skills add obra/superpowersThe CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in obra/superpowers, not writing-plans alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.
Summary
The plan format the rest of the superpowers library executes against — ordered, checkable steps rather than prose.
- Reach for it when before any change big enough that you would not want the agent deciding the order of the work on its own.
- Sits in Plan & specify — turning an intention into something an agent can execute without inventing the requirements as it goes.
- 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
Plan & specifyTurning an intention into something an agent can execute without inventing the requirements as it goes.Everything in Plan →
The skill 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.
Related
More in Plan & specify
- Define goalShapes intent into a measurable objective with explicit evidence and bounded scope, rather than a description of activity.
openai/skills - Ask questions if underspecifiedMakes the agent stop and ask instead of filling a gap in the requirements with a plausible guess.
trailofbits/skills - Constraint-driven developmentStates the constraints — budget, latency, compatibility, blast radius — as inputs rather than discovering them in review.
addyosmani/agent-skills - Context engineeringDeliberately curating what the agent sees and when — the single biggest lever on output quality.
addyosmani/agent-skills - Planning & task breakdownDecomposes a feature into tasks small enough that each one can be finished and verified independently.
addyosmani/agent-skills - Spec-driven developmentWrite the specification first, then let the implementation be judged against it rather than against taste.
addyosmani/agent-skills