superpowers-subagent-driven-development

superpowers-subagent-driven-development is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from regen-coordination/org-os-template. It costs 34 tokens per session (921 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A development workflow that assigns independent implementation tasks to fresh helper agents and reviews each task for requirements and code quality. A subagent is a separate agent given a focused piece of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute an implementation plan made of mostly independent tasks, with separate reviews for whether the work meets the specification and whether the code is well written.
Why use it?
It keeps complex implementation work organized and adds review checkpoints after each task.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the TodoWrite tool; built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to execute an implementation plan made of mostly independent tasks, with separate reviews for whether the work meets the specification and whether the code is well written.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/regen-coordination/org-os-template/superpowers-subagent-driven-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add regen-coordination/org-os-template --skill superpowers-subagent-driven-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/regen-coordination/org-os-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 921 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00034 $0.00921
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00461
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00184
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00092

Measured 8d ago against content hash 01783c255565, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

superpowers-subagent-driven-development scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/superpowers-subagent-driven-development/SKILL.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Subagent-Driven Development

Execute plan by dispatching fresh subagent per task, with two-stage review after each: spec compliance review first, then code quality review.

Why subagents: You delegate tasks to specialized agents with isolated context. By precisely crafting their instructions and context, you ensure they stay focused and succeed at their task. They should never inherit your session's context or history — you construct exactly what they need. This also preserves your own context for coordination work.

Core principle: Fresh subagent per task + two-stage review (spec then quality) = high quality, fast iteration

When to Use

Use when:

  • You have an implementation plan with independent tasks
  • You want to stay in the current session (no context switch)
  • Tasks are mostly independent (not tightly coupled)

vs. Executing Plans: Same session, fresh subagent per task, two-stage review, faster iteration.

vs. Manual execution: Subagents follow TDD naturally, fresh context per task, parallel-safe.

The Process

  1. Read plan — extract all tasks with full text, note context, create TodoWrite
  2. Per task:
    • Dispatch implementer subagent with full task text + context
    • Answer any questions from implementer
    • Implementer implements, tests, commits, self-reviews
    • Dispatch spec reviewer subagent — confirm code matches spec
    • If issues: implementer fixes, re-review
    • Dispatch code quality reviewer subagent — review implementation quality
    • If issues: implementer fixes, re-review
    • Mark task complete
  3. After all tasks:
    • Dispatch final code reviewer for entire implementation
    • Use superpowers:finishing-a-development-branch to complete

Model Selection

Use the least powerful model that can handle each role:

  • Mechanical tasks (1-2 files, clear specs): fast/cheap model
  • Integration/judgment (multi-file, pattern matching): standard model
  • Architecture/design/review: most capable model

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 103 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 01783c255565

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superpowers-subagent-driven-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository regen-coordination/org-os-template (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 921 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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