Writing Skills
Treats a new skill as production code and makes you watch an agent fail before writing it.
Install
Ships scripts/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official
Opens whenever a skill is being created or edited, and gates it from deployment until the pressure test passes.
- Author
- Jesse Vincent (obra)
- License
- MIT
The premise is that skill authoring is test-driven development applied to process documents. A pressure scenario is run against a subagent that does not have the skill yet, and the exact excuses it invents are written down — that baseline is the failing test. The document is then written to close those specific rationalizations, re-tested with a fresh subagent, and tightened until the loopholes stop appearing. It also draws a hard line about what belongs in a skill: reusable techniques, never the story of one bug that was solved once.
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