A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)
by emschwartz on 4/3/2026, 4:09:50 AM
https://emschwartz.me/a-rave-review-of-superpowers-for-claude-code/
Comments
by: deaux
> Plan mode helped a bit. However, in Plan mode, Claude would write up a giant plan document and ask for feedback. It's hard to review a multi-page plan. Making matters worse, if you give it feedback, it would respond with a whole new version of the multi-page plan. That's not a productive way to plan out a project or feature.<p>It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexible. It may ask a couple of questions before writing it, but there's always going to be parts that need editing. Yet there's no good "Sounds good, but it needs these edits" option after it presents you the plan. It gives you (paraphrased) "1. Proceed with auto-edits 2. Proceed without auto-edits 3. Cancel the plan". Note that 3 doesn't even write the plan to the file at all, even if it's 95% fine. So your options are either A. Pick 1 or 2, immediately press escape to interrupt, then tell it to make edits or B. Pick 3, tell it to make edits, after which it has to write the entire plan from scratch again.<p>This is such bad UX that it really feels like either 1. Anthropic employees don't use Claude Code much - this seems incredibly unlikely or 2. It's intended to burn output tokens as it has to write a huge plan again.<p>IMO Superpowers isn't the ideal solution because it too lacks flexibility, but including the "plan sketch" stage is sure an improvement.
4/3/2026, 9:50:24 AM
by: JohnCClarke
Online reviews indicate that Superpowers is best for people who are not already experienced SW development managers.<p>Is that true? What is your experience of it?<p>For me, I am a solid KISS believer, so I have not yet found a better framework than just plain old Claude Code. But happy to move to a better workflow, if it's real.
4/3/2026, 9:52:56 AM
by: raesene9
The install mechanism for the superpowers plugin for codex and opencode is .... interesting. From <a href="https://github.com/obra/superpowers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/obra/superpowers</a><p>Fetch and follow instructions from <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/superpowers/refs/heads/main/.codex/INSTALL.md" rel="nofollow">https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/superpowers/refs/head...</a><p>it's like curl|bash but with added LLM agents...
4/3/2026, 9:59:47 AM
by: bestouff
How is it better than <a href="https://github.com/gsd-build/gsd-2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/gsd-build/gsd-2</a> ?
4/3/2026, 8:59:05 AM
by: d--b
I personally don't like superpowers very much. My boss does. I think Claude makes more mistakes when using superpowers than when not.<p>but maybe it's my fault.<p>I recommend trying. it doesn't hurt. Just don't believe it's a silver bullet. It's still the same Claude.<p>The way I use Claude is quite similar to what super powers does under the hood anyways. Like I always ask things like this: "if I want to do X, what questions do you need to ask me to have all the information you need to make it happen"
4/3/2026, 10:26:45 AM
by: croes
The best name they came up with is Superpowers?
4/3/2026, 9:57:46 AM