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Alternatives to Skills For Real Engineers

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Alternatives

Agent Skills: 25 skills and lifecycle slash commands from Addy Osmani.
Using Superpowers: another engineering skill pack with planning and review gates.
Claude Code: the agent these skills most often ride on.

Agent Skills

Skills

Production-grade engineering skills for AI coding agents. 25 skills and 9 slash commands that enforce the dev lifecycle across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more.

#Open Source

—DR: —AS: —

Using Superpowers Skill

Skills

Superpowers' bootstrap skill loads at session start and makes coding agents check for and invoke relevant skills before any response or action.

#Claude Code

—DR: 80AS: 78

Claude Code

Development Tools

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

#Claude

15900000DR: 95AS: 94