superpowers

This is 100% the work of Jesse Vincent (and the team at Prime Radiant). Every skill in this power was written by the Superpowers authors and lives at github.com/obra/superpowers. This power does not add, rewrite, or improve any of that work — it only repackages it, unchanged, so it can be installed as a Kiro power. All credit goes to the original authors. If you find these skills valuable, follow and support them.

A Kiro Power that vendors the Superpowers agent skills so Kiro can use them. The skill files are copied verbatim from upstream; attribution and license are preserved.

Attribution

• Author: Jesse Vincent / Prime Radiant — https://github.com/obra
• Source repo: https://github.com/obra/superpowers
• License: MIT (see UPSTREAM-LICENSE)
• Synced commit: recorded in UPSTREAM.txt

What is synced

All skills from upstream skills/ (they are polished and already laid out one level below skills/, so they map directly with no restructuring):

brainstorming, dispatching-parallel-agents, executing-plans, finishing-a-development-branch, receiving-code-review, requesting-code-review, subagent-driven-development, systematic-debugging, test-driven-development, using-git-worktrees, using-superpowers, verification-before-completion, writing-plans, writing-skills

Each skill's supporting files (references, examples, scripts) are included as-is.

What is NOT synced (and why)

• Harness plugin scaffolding — .claude-plugin/, .codex-plugin/, .cursor-plugin/, .devin-plugin/, .hermes-plugin/, .kimi-plugin/, .opencode/, .pi/, gemini-extension.json, etc. These wire Superpowers into specific coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, …). Kiro loads skills from the skills/ folder directly, so this machinery is not needed here.
• hooks/ — Superpowers ships session-start hooks that auto-inject its bootstrap in supported harnesses. Kiro handles power/skill activation its own way, so these upstream hooks are not synced. (Kiro-native hooks, if desired, can be added separately.)
• Evals / tests / release tooling — tests/, evals harness references, RELEASE-NOTES.md, package.json, and version-bump config are development infrastructure for the upstream project, not runnable skills.
• Telemetry — The upstream brainstorming visual companion can load a remote logo for anonymous version telemetry. It is optional upstream and can be disabled with SUPERPOWERS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY. Review the skill if this matters to you.

If you want any excluded component, take it directly from the upstream repo.

Note on the methodology

Superpowers is designed as an auto-triggering, end-to-end methodology in harnesses that support its hooks. In Kiro, the skills are available on demand, but the upstream session-start auto-activation is not part of this power (see "What is NOT synced"). You reach for the skills as needed.

Overlap with the matt-pocock-skills power

This power and the sibling matt-pocock-skills power share a methodology backbone (align → plan → TDD → review → debug). They are kept separate for clean per-author attribution. See the repo root README for a guide on which to reach for.

Updating

Skills are refreshed from upstream by a weekly GitHub Actions workflow (.github/workflows/sync-upstream-skills.yml), which opens a pull request when upstream changes. You can also run scripts/sync-upstream.sh locally.

License

The skills are MIT-licensed by their authors; see UPSTREAM-LICENSE and NOTICE. The packaging around them (this README, plugin.json) is provided under the repository's MIT license.