Superpowers: I'm using coding agents in October 2025

Summary

It feels like it was just a couple days ago that I wrote up "How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025". At the beginning of that post, I alluded to the fact that my process had evolved a bit since then. I've spent the past couple of weeks working on a set of tools to better extract and systematize my processes and to help better steer my agentic buddy. I'd been planning to start to document the system this weekend, but then this morning, Anthropic went and rolled out a plugin system for claude code. If you want to stop reading and play with my new toys, they're self-driving enough that you can. You'll need Claude Code 2.0.13 or so. Fire it up and then run: /plugin marketplace add obra/superpowers-marketplace /plugin install superpowers@superpowers-marketplace After you quit and restart claude, you'll see a new injected prompt: <session-start-hook><EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT> You have Superpowers. **RIGHT NOW, go read**: @/Users/jesse/.claude/plugins/cache/Superpowers/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md </EXTREMELY_IMPORTANT></session-start-hook> That's the bootstrap that kicks off Superpowers. It teaches Claude a couple important things: You have skills. They give you Superpowers. Search for skills by running a script and use skills by reading them and doing what they say. If you have a skill to do something, you must use it to do that activity. The coding workflow It also bakes in the brainstorm -> plan -> implement workflow I've already written about. The biggest change is that you no longer need to run a command or paste in a prompt. If Claude thinks you're trying to start a project or task, it should default into talking through a plan with you before it starts down the path of implementation. After you're done brainstorming, if you're in a git repo it automatically creates a worktree for the project and changes to that directory. This means that you can start parallel tasks on the same project that don't clobber each other. It then offers you a choice between: last ...