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Development skills

The skills in the directory filed under Development, in the editor's order.

Development skills

Superpowers

Jesse Vincent

A full software development workflow for coding agents, built from composable skills for brainstorming, planning, TDD, debugging and review.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Skill Creator

AnthropicOfficial

Creates new skills, improves existing ones and measures how well they perform with evals and benchmarks.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 179k

Works out why a superpowers session went wrong: repeated work, ignored plans or a skill that did not fire.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Splits two or more independent tasks across parallel agents when they share no state.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Executing Plans

Jesse Vincent

Executes an implementation plan in the current session, step by step.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Guides the choice of how to integrate finished work once tests pass: merge, pull request or cleanup.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Handles code review feedback with technical rigour, verifying suggestions before implementing them.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Requests a code review to verify that completed work meets its requirements before merging.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Executes an implementation plan by handing independent tasks to subagents within the current session.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Makes the agent find the root cause of a bug, test failure or unexpected behaviour before it proposes a fix.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Makes the agent write a failing test before any implementation code, for features and bug fixes alike.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Using Git Worktrees

Jesse Vincent

Sets up an isolated workspace with git worktrees before feature work or plan execution begins.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Requires the agent to run verification commands and confirm the output before it claims that work is complete or passing.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Writing Plans

Jesse Vincent

Writes a step-by-step implementation plan from a spec or requirements before any code is touched.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Writing Skills

Jesse Vincent

Guides creating, editing and testing skills before they are deployed.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 294k

Code Review

Matt Pocock

Reviews the changes since a commit or branch on two axes: the repo's coding standards and the originating spec.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

Codebase Design

Matt Pocock

Gives the agent a shared vocabulary for designing deep modules, deciding interfaces and making code easier to test.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

Diagnosing Bugs

Matt Pocock

Runs a diagnosis loop for hard bugs and performance regressions.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

Domain Modeling

Matt Pocock

Builds and sharpens a project's domain model through a glossary and ADRs.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

Implement Spec

Matt Pocock

Implements in code what the to-spec and to-tickets skills produced.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

Implement

Matt Pocock

Implements a piece of work in code, working from a spec or a set of tickets.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

Scans a codebase for chances to deepen modules, shows them in an HTML report, then interviews you about the one you pick.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

PR

Matt Pocock

Writes the body of a pull request so that reviewers can follow the change.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

Prototype

Matt Pocock

Builds a throwaway prototype to answer a design question about a state model, logic or UI.

DevelopmentGitHub stars: 273k

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