Superpowers Lab
Spin up a lab-style sandbox to experiment with Obra Superpowers patterns and agent rituals without touching production repos.
Overview
Superpowers Lab is an agent skill most often used in Build (also Validate scope, Ship review) that steers you to a dedicated lab environment for experimenting with Claude superpowers before production use.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/sickn33/antigravity-awesome-skills --skill superpowers-labWhat is this skill?
- Points to the official obra/superpowers-lab source for patterns and updates
- Scoped invoke guidance: use only when the task matches lab/superpowers experimentation
- Documents limitations—outputs need environment-specific validation and expert review
- Safe-risk posture suitable for exploratory agent setup work
Adoption & trust: 800 installs on skills.sh; 40.1k GitHub stars; 3/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You want to try Superpowers-style agent workflows but lack a clear, bounded place to experiment without risking your main app repo.
Who is it for?
Solo builders exploring Obra Superpowers who need a named lab workflow before adopting brainstorming, plans, or review skills on a live project.
Skip if: Teams that already have an approved superpowers stack in CI and only need task-specific integrations—skip the lab and use phase-specific skills directly.
When should I use this skill?
When you need to work with a lab environment for Claude superpowers.
What do I get? / Deliverables
You get scoped instructions and a source-of-truth link to superpowers-lab so experiments stay explicit, reversible, and followed by real validation on your stack.
- Oriented lab workflow with source repository reference
- Explicit scope and limitation checklist before production adoption
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Spans multiple journey phases - primary shelf plus alternate fits below.
Canonical shelf is Build because the skill is explicitly a lab environment for extending and testing agent superpowers—not a single launch or validate artifact. Agent-tooling fits a dedicated lab workflow where you tune procedures, gates, and handoffs before wiring skills into real product work.
Where it fits
Decide which superpowers gates to adopt before you write an implementation plan for a new feature.
Prototype skill chains in the lab repo before adding SKILL.md files to your product monorepo.
Rehearse review superpowers against sample diffs in the lab before enabling them on real PRs.
How it compares
Use as a meta lab pointer—not a full methodology skill like brainstorming or a generator that ships page copy.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is superpowers-lab for?
Indie and solo developers using Claude Code or similar agents who want to experiment with Superpowers Lab patterns before baking them into production repos.
When should I use superpowers-lab?
During Build agent-tooling setup, while Validate scoping a new agent workflow, or before Ship review when you need to rehearse superpowers rituals in isolation—not when you already have signed-off specs ready to implement.
Is superpowers-lab safe to install?
The skill is marked safe in metadata, but you should still review the Security Audits panel on this Prism page and validate any lab scripts against your environment before running them.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Superpowers Lab
# Superpowers Lab ## Overview Lab environment for Claude superpowers ## When to Use This Skill Use this skill when you need to work with lab environment for claude superpowers. ## Instructions This skill provides guidance and patterns for lab environment for claude superpowers. For more information, see the [source repository](https://github.com/obra/superpowers-lab). ## Limitations - Use this skill only when the task clearly matches the scope described above. - Do not treat the output as a substitute for environment-specific validation, testing, or expert review. - Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs, permissions, safety boundaries, or success criteria are missing.