The fastest-growing repo in ai this week isn't a model, it's a skills folder. superpowers, an…
the fastest-growing repo in ai this week isn't a model, it's a skills folder. superpowers, an agentic skills framework, went from about 77k to about 293k github stars between sept 27 and sept 30.
developers are betting on methodology, not weights.
Context
Verified source: the obra/superpowers repository on GitHub, described as an agentic skills framework and software development methodology, shows about 298,150 stars and 26,643 forks, MIT licensed, created on Oct 9, 2025. Kunal Ganglani (Oct 12, 2026) says it went from a one-point Hacker News post to about 298,000 stars and an official Anthropic plugin.
A DEV Community post of Oct 7 calls the whole methodology 170 KB of markdown.
The framework, the roughly 293k to 298k star level and the focus on methodology match the sources. The starting point of about 77k on Sep 27 and the growth of 216k stars in three days were not seen in the sources read, so unsupported here, not refuted. in the excerpts read, which only give later star counts. 'Fastest-growing repo in AI this week' is also not seen in the sources read, so unsupported here, not refuted. 'Developers are betting on methodology, not weights' is the author's opinion.
Related work
- obra/superpowers, RepoRadar ↗Repository summary.
- GitHub repository ↗Live star count.
- Kunal Ganglani ↗Oct 12, 2026.
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- Look at the repository's star history to confirm the late-September growth.
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