(2025-10-10) Willison Superpowers How Im Using Coding Agents In October2025

Simon Willison: Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025. A follow-up to Jesse Vincent's post about September, but this is a really significant piece in its own right. 2025-10-09-VincentSuperpowersHowImUsingCodingAgentsInOctober2025

Jesse is one of the most creative users of coding agents (Claude Code in particular) that I know. He's put a great amount of work into evolving an effective process for working with them, encourage red/green TDD (watch the test fail first), planning steps, self-updating memory notes and even implementing a feelings journal ("I feel engaged and curious about this project" - Claude).

Claude Code just launched plugins, and Jesse is celebrating by wrapping up a whole host of his accumulated tricks as a new plugin called Superpowers. You can add it to your Claude Code like this:

There's a lot in here! It's worth spending some time browsing the repository - here's just one fun example, in skills/debugging/root-cause-tracing/SKILL.md:

This one is particularly fun because it then includes a Graphviz DOT graph illustrating the process - it turns out Claude can interpret those as workflow instructions just fine, and Jesse has been wildly experimenting with them

Jesse's post also tipped me off about Claude's /mnt/skills/public folder, see my notes here