obra/superpowers

executing-plans

Use when executing an implementation plan in the current session as the implementer yourself — your human partner chose inline execution, or no subagent tool is available

237K installs 301K stars

Before you install

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License
MIT
Source on GitHub
obra/superpowers

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Install

npx skills add obra/superpowers@executing-plans

Runs in a terminal with Node.js 18 or newer. Add -y to skip the prompts and -g to install for every project instead of this one.

Install for your agent

npx skills add obra/superpowers@executing-plans --agent claude-code -y
Project install writes to
.claude/skills/executing-plans
Global install writes to
~/.claude/skills/executing-plans

Start a new session afterwards so the agent picks the skill up. In Claude Code you can also call it directly with /executing-plans.

What it does

Executing Plans Execute the plan yourself, task by task, in this session: no implementer subagent per task, no reviewer per task. One fresh-context review of the whole branch at the end. Why inline: Subagent-driven development pays for a fresh implementer and a fresh reviewer on every task, each re-reading the codebase from zero. Inline execution pays for one context (yours) plus one reviewer at the end. What it gives up is a fresh context per task and a second pair of eyes per task. This skill keeps what those two things bought, by other means: the brief is the spec, the ledger is your…

Excerpt from the skill's own SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub before installing: skills run with your agent's permissions.

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