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A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)

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Re: A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)

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Post by jghn »

tao_oat wrote: post #8
JohnCClarke wrote: post #4

Online reviews indicate that Superpowers is best for people who are not already experienced SW development managers. Is that true? What is your experience of it? For me, I am a solid KISS believer, so I have not yet found a better framework than just plain old Claude Code. But happy to move to a better workflow, if it's real.

Overall I think it's useful. Superpowers has several skills. Its core workflow is: - Brainstorm with you to design a spec - Use subagents to review its own spec, then get your approval - Based on the spec, write a plan, use subagents to review before final approval - Use subagents to implement (using TDD) I think that the brainstorming skill [1] is great. It helps flesh out a rough early idea. I also like that it use…

A recent update got rid of the subagents for the self review and now does the self review in the main agent

Re: A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)

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Post by joecot »

keheliya wrote: post #18
deaux wrote: post #3

> Plan mode helped a bit. However, in Plan mode, Claude would write up a giant plan document and ask for feedback. It's hard to review a multi-page plan. Making matters worse, if you give it feedback, it would respond with a whole new version of the multi-page plan. That's not a productive way to plan out a project or feature. It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexible.…

I've found [Plannotator]( https://github.com/backnotprop/plannotator ) useful for this. It opens the plan on a minimal web page so I can highlight and add comments. This is then passed back to Claude code. Works well enough for now. But ideally this should be natively implemented in cc.

I extensively tried to use this and couldn't get it working. I'm running CC from a docker container and mostly use it from a web interface, but even setting it to just give a url, and using CC from the terminal, it would just not hook in correctly

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Post by 4b11b4 »

deaux wrote: post #3

> Plan mode helped a bit. However, in Plan mode, Claude would write up a giant plan document and ask for feedback. It's hard to review a multi-page plan. Making matters worse, if you give it feedback, it would respond with a whole new version of the multi-page plan. That's not a productive way to plan out a project or feature. It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexible.…

I accidentally figured out you can go into plan mode then leave, Claude can keep working on the plan, then I use my own custom plan viewer (just a markdown viewer that's watching for the latest for update in the plan dir)

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Post by sfifs »

deaux wrote: post #3

> Plan mode helped a bit. However, in Plan mode, Claude would write up a giant plan document and ask for feedback. It's hard to review a multi-page plan. Making matters worse, if you give it feedback, it would respond with a whole new version of the multi-page plan. That's not a productive way to plan out a project or feature. It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexible.…

The VSCode plugin now (since last week I think) allows you to highlight elements of the plan and add comments. I think it first appeared in Antigravity but now is in Claude code. Unfortunately there is only so much you can do in CLI.

It is also possible to now save plans in a custom location (I have started using ./docs/plans) although the plan mode still frustratingly names plans random file names and struggles with more than. 1 plan file in a session.

But the interface has become much better if you're on vscode

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Post by waffletower »

deaux wrote: post #3

> Plan mode helped a bit. However, in Plan mode, Claude would write up a giant plan document and ask for feedback. It's hard to review a multi-page plan. Making matters worse, if you give it feedback, it would respond with a whole new version of the multi-page plan. That's not a productive way to plan out a project or feature. It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexible.…

In my experience the plan is plastic and responsive to iteration through dialogue. I don't think too much structure here is going to be desired by all users. But the "sounds good, but needs these edits" option can save a small amount of interaction. I often use the tab command that exists to modify the yes and no options. If you tab modify "Yes", I believe the plan will be executed and addendums from your additional prompting will be made afterward. By using tab modified "No", you can be clear about what parts of the plan are to be kept and what is to be immediately adjusted. Tab modified "No", definitely works as the "sounds good" option, but perhaps requires slightly more typing than you would like. "No, use most of this, but change..." I don't think there is a glaring lack here at all.

Re: A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)

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Post by conception »

deaux wrote: post #3

> Plan mode helped a bit. However, in Plan mode, Claude would write up a giant plan document and ask for feedback. It's hard to review a multi-page plan. Making matters worse, if you give it feedback, it would respond with a whole new version of the multi-page plan. That's not a productive way to plan out a project or feature. It's sure baffling how Anthropic has kept Claude Code's plan mode so linear and inflexible.…

Plans are written to the .Claude folder in your home directory as you discuss them. Just ask for the file name.
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