Category: Development

Writing Skills

Creates or edits skills and verifies they work before deployment.

Works with

Writing skills IS Test-Driven Development applied to process documentation.*
Core principle:* If you didn't watch an agent fail without the skill, you don't know if the skill teaches the right thing.
A skill is a reference guide for proven techniques, patterns, or tools. Skills help future agents find and apply effective approaches.
Skills are:* Reusable techniques, patterns, tools, reference guides

Creates or edits skills and verifies they work before deployment.

Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.

npx skills add https://github.com/obra/superpowers --skill writing-skills

To install manually, download the writing-skills skill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as ~/.claude/skills/ or .cursor/skills/.
Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.

Development
Subagent-Driven Development
Executes implementation plans with independent tasks via subagents in the current session.
Development
Test-Driven Development (Superpowers)
Superpowers TDD skill: write tests before implementation code.
Development
Using Git Worktrees
Starts isolated feature work with Git worktrees before implementing plans.
Development
Verification Before Completion
Requires real verification before claiming work is complete or opening a PR.