What Should You Delete From Your Coding Agent? Superpowers' 14 Skills Spark Debate
aofu_dev · reddit · 2026-09-09
Developer aofudev examines the Superpowers plugin — 14 skills (20,700 words of skill md files plus 80 reference files) shipping for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Pi — and wonders how much scaffolding is now cargo cult. With tasks already specced in Linear, brainstorming and plan docs feel redundant and rarely get read. Claude's own blog suggests removing scaffolding to see what breaks. The author asks: which planning/verification steps remain necessary when tasks are already well-specified?
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