Stop Babysitting Your AI Agents: The Superpowers Breakthrough

“Skills are executable knowledge — they're instructions that Claude Code agents must follow when they apply to the task at hand. This is a fundamental shift in how we work with AI coding assistants — from supervision to systematic workflows. ”

Colin McNamara (longtime infrastructure practitioner) writes early on Superpowers, just two weeks after launch — credits Jesse Vincent (obra) for shipping a system where agents follow TDD, git workflows, and brainstorming protocols without prompting, and reports his personal output now exceeds what entire OCI teams produced.