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Superpowers for OpenClaw

A structured software development methodology skill pack for OpenClaw, forked from obra/superpowers.

What This Is

A set of composable skills that give OpenClaw agents a disciplined development workflow: brainstorming → planning → TDD → execution → review → verification.

Skills trigger automatically via OpenClaw's description matching — no manual invocation needed.

Installation

Link each skill into your OpenClaw skills directory:

# Link all superpowers skills
SUPERPOWERS=/path/to/superpowers/skills
for skill in "$SUPERPOWERS"/*/; do
  ln -sf "$skill" ~/.openclaw/skills/$(basename "$skill")
done

Skills can also be placed in a project's .openclaw/skills/ directory.

Note: OpenClaw expects skills directly under ~/.openclaw/skills/<name>/SKILL.md. A single parent symlink (e.g., ~/.openclaw/skills/superpowers → .../skills/) won't work because it nests the SKILL.md files one level too deep.

Available Skills

Skills marked with * have been adapted for OpenClaw.

Skill Description
brainstorming* Design-before-code workflow with collaborative refinement
writing-plans* Bite-sized implementation plans with TDD steps
executing-plans* Batch execution with review checkpoints
subagent-driven-development* Per-task subagent dispatch with two-stage review
test-driven-development Red-green-refactor cycle enforcement
systematic-debugging* Four-phase root cause investigation
verification-before-completion Evidence before claims, always
requesting-code-review* Pre-merge review dispatch
receiving-code-review* Handling review feedback with technical rigor
dispatching-parallel-agents* Concurrent independent task execution
using-git-worktrees* Isolated workspace creation and management
finishing-a-development-branch Merge/PR/discard workflow
writing-skills* How to create and test new skills
using-superpowers* Meta-skill: how skills trigger and compose

Documentation

See AGENTS.md for architecture, conventions, and upstream sync process.

Credit

This is a fork of obra/superpowers by Jesse Vincent. The core methodology is upstream — this fork adapts the tooling integration for OpenClaw's native skill system, sessions_spawn subagent dispatch, and beads task tracking.

If superpowers has helped you, consider sponsoring Jesse's work.

License

MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

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