My Honest Take on Superpowers & Matt Pocock's 55 Skills
My honest review of Superpowers and Matt Pocock's 55 Skills—what works, what doesn't, and my actual setup.
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I’ve been using AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and so have most people around me. Two names keep coming up almost inevitably:
Obra’s Superpowers (260k stars) and Matt Pocock’s Skills (190k stars).
There’s a lot of discussion online, but most of it stays at the level of “this one’s good, that one’s good too.” This time I cloned both repositories, went through the source code, tests, outputs, and interaction costs of every Skill, and cross-checked things on Zhihu and the official docs. In this article I’ll share what I observed from a user’s perspective—including ratings of the key Skills and my own actual setup. Listing and scoring all 55 would be long and boring, so I’ve organized it around “which ones are worth installing and in what scenarios.” Anything not mentioned is either not recommended or optional.
Superpowers Is Not Just a Collection of Prompts
Many people think Superpowers is simply good prompts packaged as Skills. It’s not.
It is a complete methodological system. Each Skill has clear dependencies and trigger logic. The 14 official Skills are less like loose parts and more like an interlocking process engine.
