Jesse Vincent founded and leads Prime Radiant, an applied AI lab, and created the Superpowers development workflow for coding agents. His earlier projects include Request Tracker, K-9 Mail and Keyboardio keyboards.[1]
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Education
Links
GitHub Website Blog Mastodon Bluesky Founder and CEO · Prime Radiant
Co-founder · Keyboardio
Career
Vincent’s career spans software, language maintenance and hardware. His first-person biography dates Request Tracker to 1996, K-9 Mail to 2008 and co-founding Keyboardio with Kaia Dekker to 2012. He led Perl 5 from 2009 to 2011 and later founded Prime Radiant in 2025. Request Tracker coordinates issues, K-9 handles Android email and Keyboardio builds ergonomic keyboards, giving his agent work a longer context of tools that support how people work.[2]
Contributions
Superpowers packages software-development practices into instructions a coding agent can use. The workflow clarifies a proposed feature, presents a design for approval, builds an implementation plan and carries out tasks with review and testing. Its units are composable skills rather than a new underlying language model. That makes the intervention concrete: change how the agent approaches and verifies work, while continuing to use an existing coding tool.[3]
Ideas
In his October 2026 anniversary post, Vincent says he built Superpowers to share experience managing junior engineers and later agents. He describes continually revising the workflow as models change, including a rebuilt brainstorming experience in version 7.0. His practical argument is that capable models still benefit from process, context and checks. The post treats understanding the tools and the system being built as necessary expertise, even when the person no longer writes each line manually.[4]
Tools, writing & talks
Tools
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Superpowersgithub.comA set of composable skills guiding coding agents through design, planning, implementation, review and testing.
Start with Superpowers’ workflow overview to see where specification, approval and review sit around code generation. It helps to know a coding agent already; the anniversary post explains why the process evolved.
Creator[2][3]Original source- Winpeppergithub.com
Windows dictation tool that types cleaned-up speech into the focused app, running Parakeet ASR and LlamaSharp locally.
Catalog workOriginal source - Mutter Buttergithub.com
GNOME Shell extension that manages windows on a grid with live-scaling stamps.
Catalog workOriginal source - Comic OCRgithub.com
Runs OCR on comic strips with Apple Vision on macOS, then cleans up the transcripts with Claude.
Catalog workOriginal source - macOS UI CLIgithub.com
Swift command-line tool for inspecting and controlling user interface elements on macOS.
Catalog workOriginal source - Narcolepsydgithub.com
Idle power optimizer for Linux laptops with Intel hybrid CPUs, written in Rust.
Catalog workOriginal source - Claude Docs Setupgithub.com
Tooling for setting up Claude-friendly documentation inside a repository.
Catalog workOriginal source - Wayback Restorergithub.com
Python toolkit that restores site mirrors from the Wayback Machine with provenance-first, archive-friendly recovery.
Catalog workOriginal source - Issue Cardsgithub.com
Command-line issue tracker designed for AI agents to read and update tasks.
Catalog workOriginal source - Dayflow Exportgithub.com
Turns Dayflow activity records into markdown transcripts an LLM can read without further conversion.
Catalog workOriginal source - Screenshot For Chatgithub.com
macOS utility for grabbing screenshots sized for pasting context into LLM chat interfaces, written in Swift.
Catalog workOriginal source - Stage Whispergithub.com
macOS menu bar app that transcribes speech with WhisperKit and inserts the text at your cursor.
Catalog workOriginal source - Winbygithub.com
Swift-built window manager for macOS that locates and manages windows through fast fuzzy search.
Catalog workOriginal source - Pepper Xgithub.com
Rust dictation utility for Linux that runs locally, designed for GNOME desktops first.
Catalog workOriginal source - macMCPgithub.com
MCP server exposing macOS automation capabilities to AI agents such as Claude.
Catalog workOriginal source - iMessage Printergithub.com
macOS app that browses your iMessage conversations and exports them as formatted PDF documents.
Catalog workOriginal source - CC Plugin Decision Loggithub.com
Keeps a running record of the decisions an agent reaches over the course of a Claude Code session.
Catalog workOriginal source - Moltipassgithub.com
iOS client that lets human users browse Moltbook, a social network for agents.
Catalog workOriginal source - CodeRabbit Review Helpergithub.com
Lifts CodeRabbit review output from a GitHub pull request into a shape AI coding agents can read.
Catalog workOriginal source - Amplifier Bundle Superpowersgithub.com
Workflow system bringing TDD, systematic debugging, and structured planning discipline to the Amplifier agent stack.
Catalog workOriginal source - Smallest Agentgithub.com
Tiny coding agent written as a shell script, showing the minimal building blocks of agent design.
Catalog workOriginal source - Claude Session Drivergithub.com
Launches, controls, and monitors other Claude Code sessions as workers through tmux.
Catalog workOriginal source - Knowledge Graphgithub.com
Queries an Obsidian vault as a local knowledge graph with semantic search, path finding, and community detection.
Catalog workOriginal source - Claude Memory Extractorgithub.com
Node.js tool that extracts memories from Claude conversations for persistent context across sessions.
Catalog workOriginal source - Double Shot Lattegithub.com
Claude Code plugin that evaluates whether the agent should keep working instead of stopping prematurely.
Catalog workOriginal source - Superpowers for Claude Codegithub.com
Skill pack providing meta-tooling for building and developing Claude Code skills.
Catalog workOriginal source - Packnplaygithub.com
Runs any command in a sandboxed Docker container with automated git worktree and dev-container management.
Catalog workOriginal source - Superpowers Chromegithub.com
Claude Code plugin that drives Chrome directly through the DevTools Protocol with no added dependencies.
Catalog workOriginal source - Private Journal MCPgithub.com
MCP server that gives Claude a private journal for recording thoughts and reflections between conversation turns.
Catalog workOriginal source - Superpowers Labgithub.com
Testing ground for experimental Claude Code Superpowers skills and techniques before wider release.
Catalog workOriginal source - Episodic Memorygithub.com
Claude Code plugin that persists conversation history and makes past sessions searchable.
Catalog workOriginal source - Superpowers Marketplacegithub.com
Curated index of community-built Claude Code plugins, skills, and agents, installable in one command.
Catalog workOriginal source
Writing, research & talks
- What a yearblog.fsck.com
A first-person account of the first year of Superpowers and the workflow changes in version 7.0.
Author[4] An informational requirements document about exchanging presence information and instant messages.