writing-plans

An agent skill by obra, from obra/superpowers. Tags: design, developer-tools, documents.

What it does

Use when you have a spec or requirements for a multi-step task, before touching code

Install

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

npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill writing-plans

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/writing-plans ~/.claude/skills/writing-plans

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Source

Repository

obra/superpowers (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/writing-plans/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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