obra / superpowers
Shell  ·  GitHub Trending 20 Aug 2026  ·  557 stars today
Framework and methodology

Two products in one sentence, and one claim at the end.

An agentic skills framework and a software development methodology, sold together. The description closes on three words that most projects would never risk putting in writing.

$ git clone obra/superpowers
github.com/obra/superpowers
the closing claim
that works
quoted verbatim
from the description
Noun one

A skills framework

The mechanical half. Something an agent loads, with a shape other people can write against. This is the part you can inspect before you commit to it.

Noun two

A methodology

The opinionated half, and the harder sell. A methodology asks you to change how you work rather than what you install, which is why most tools quietly avoid the word.

Why the stamp

"That works" is a durability claim, and it is unusual because it invites the exact test that would disprove it. A project that ends its own description that way has decided the risk is worth the signal.

What is not on this page

No skill count, no adoption number, no named methodology steps, no benchmark. The trending description publishes none of it, and a stamp is only credible when nothing around it is invented.

Concept mock, not affiliated with the project. The full description quoted here is "An agentic skills framework and software development methodology that works," from GitHub Trending, 20 August 2026.