Introduction
It's crazy to me that some GitHub repos, that were just created in the last year, have more stars then some of the most popular programming frameworks out there. At the time of writing, Superpowers, is around 226,000, ahead of the Vue repo and way ahead of Next.js. A separate repo based on Andrej Karpathy's coding advice has 174,000. And they aren't even code. They're folders of markdown files that tell your AI coding agent how to write software better.
In other words these are agent skills, and they've blown up over the past year into one of the most-starred new categories of developer tooling. The format started at Anthropic, a SKILL.md file with a short description and a set of instructions, and now it works in Claude Code, Kiro and all your other favorite coding agents.
This post is a tour of some of the skills I find most interesting that people are using everyday. I'll be in Kiro for most of this, but these run in whatever agent you already have, with install paths that vary per agent.
This post covers:
