obra/superpowers
An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.
298.9k stars · 26.7k forks · Shell
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 71% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
Maintenance
PartialSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 3
- Human commits, 90 days
- 56
- Human commits, 365 days
- 620
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 10, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 5
- Last release
- Oct 10, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 12 hours
Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 90% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 9 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 500 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 37
Top committers
- obra: 71% of commits
- arittr: 16% of commits
- jesse: 3% of commits
- clkao: 2% of commits
- Drew Ritter: 1% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Dec 2, 2025 to Dec 4, 2025: about 304 more stars than usual, peak 278 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 25, 2025 to Dec 30, 2025: about 935 more stars than usual, peak 417 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 9, 2026 to Feb 5, 2026: about 24.7k more stars than usual, peak 1.9k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Engagement is low for a repo this size (forks, watchers, issues, contributors).
- 43 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Forks, watchers, issues, and contributors are low for the number of stars.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: obra/superpowers
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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