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obra/superpowers-lab
Experimental skills for Claude Code Superpowers - new techniques and tools
A grab-bag plugin of four experimental 'skills' for Claude Code's Superpowers framework: semantic duplicate-function detection, an on-demand MCP CLI wrapper, tmux-driven control of interactive terminal tools, and lifecycle management for a headless Windows 11 VM in Docker. It's for people already running the Superpowers plugin who want extra, not-yet-stable automations rather than a standalone tool.
The duplicate-function finder's two-phase design (cheap script-based extraction, then Haiku for categorization before handing the expensive clustering to Opus) is a sane way to keep LLM cost down on large codebases instead of throwing everything at one big prompt. The tmux skill addresses a real, specific gap — Claude Code has no native way to drive interactive programs like vim or `rebase -i` — by scripting keystroke injection and output capture rather than hand-waving it. windows-vm reuses dockur/windows for the KVM/Windows automation instead of reinventing that from scratch, which is the right call.
There's no test suite or CI config anywhere in the tree, which is a real liability for shell scripts and tmux keystroke timing that are inherently flaky across environments — 'experimental' is covering for 'untested.' windows-vm needs Docker + KVM and runs a full Windows 11 guest just to get SSH access, which is a heavy dependency chain for what the README frames as a convenience. The README says skills are tested on Linux/macOS with tmux, yet windows-vm exists specifically to test Windows behavior, so the host/guest story is confusing. Everything here is tightly coupled to the obra/superpowers plugin API, so none of these four skills are usable or evaluable outside that ecosystem.