subagent-driven-development

An agent skill by obra, from obra/superpowers. Tags: api, developer-tools, mcp.

What it does

Use when executing implementation plans with independent tasks in the current session

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill subagent-driven-development

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obra/superpowers
cp -r superpowers/skills/subagent-driven-development ~/.claude/skills/subagent-driven-development

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Source

Repository

obra/superpowers (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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