Powerups — Development skill for Claude Code
Reusable Claude Code skills for disciplined software development.
How to install Powerups
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open jackyliang/powerups and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Powerups does
Reusable [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) skills for disciplined software development.
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README
powerups
Reusable [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) skills for disciplined software development.
Skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| best-practices | The baseline for every code change. Branching (never main), investigate before building, ask before assuming, TDD, DRY, simplify after implementation, update-docs when done, lint before committing. |
| test-driven-development | Write failing tests first against real infrastructure. No mocks. Red-green-refactor. |
| plan-driven-development | Versioned plan files in plans/ for multi-milestone features. Builds on best-practices. Skill audit before planning, scenario map for complex changes, plan-vs-reality audit before PR, multi-agent coordination across context windows. |
| user-research | Product-manager-grade discovery before building a user-facing feature — problem statement, jobs-to-be-done, core flow, and a decision matrix. Output is a short brief the requester approves, with open decisions surfaced as explicit questions. Invoked by plan-driven-development and give-me-five. |
| bug-fix | Strict 10-step protocol for fixing bugs. Reproduce first, then fix. Each step gates on success criteria. Supports Chrome browser debugging for UI bugs. |
| change-log | Log each feature or fix in CHANGELOG.md using plain, business-user-friendly language. Powers the product updates blog. |
| simple-design-principles | Rules for user-facing copy and UI components. Plain language, no jargon, consistent component usage. |
| give-me-five | Generate 5 meaningfully distinct UI/UX variants of the same screen in parallel — one subagent per variant — each reachable via ?style=1...5. Iterate on a chosen style to refine within that direction. |
| self-documenting-apis | Ensure FastAPI endpoints have docstrings, typed response/request models, and proper status codes so auto-generated docs are the single source of truth. |
| update-docs | Sync a |
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