superclaw

What This Skill Does

Superclaw is a robust workflow management system designed for OpenClaw agents to enforce a disciplined 'Design → Plan → Execute' methodology. Inspired by Jesse Vincent's superpowers, this skill prevents the common pitfall of agents diving directly into code without proper context or architecture. By mandating a three-phase workflow, Superclaw ensures that every software development task is grounded in a documented design, verified by a granular implementation plan, and delivered through isolated, checkpointed execution sessions. It integrates directly with your existing repository, saving plans in workspace/docs/plans/ and updating your MEMORY.md daily logs to maintain state across sessions.

Installation

To integrate Superclaw into your OpenClaw environment, use the provided installation command:

npx clawhub@latest install superclaw

Once installed, the skill automatically detects relevant development tasks and activates its phased workflow, requiring no manual trigger for standard coding requests.

Use Cases

• Complex Feature Development: When building new, interconnected components that require careful architectural planning.
• Refactoring Legacy Code: Ensures that the agent understands the current system state before introducing breaking changes.
• Long-Running Projects: Perfect for large-scale development where the ability to pause, review, and resume work is essential for success.
• Collaborative Software Design: Provides a clear paper trail (design docs and implementation plans) for human developers to review before the agent proceeds to code.

Example Prompts

1. "Superclaw, I need you to implement a JWT-based authentication system for our existing Express API."
2. "Please build a React component that fetches data from our internal dashboard API and visualizes it with Recharts."
3. "Refactor the user profile service to support multi-tenant database access; let's start by looking at the current architecture."

Tips & Limitations

Tips: Always review the design document generated in phase 1, as this serves as the foundational source of truth for the entire workflow. Ensure your MEMORY.md is updated regularly so the agent can accurately contextualize new requests.

Limitations: Superclaw is intentionally 'opinionated' and adds overhead to small tasks. It is best suited for medium-to-large development projects rather than quick, one-off scripts. The execution phase is capped at 5 tasks per batch to ensure high-quality, reviewable output, which may slow down extremely rapid iterations.