Is Superpowers safe to use?

Superpowers has an HVTrust score of 66.0/100 (Grade B), ranked #195 of 1204 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Superpowers?

Superpowers scores 66.0/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 269.7k GitHub stars and is categorized under Coding Agents.

Superpowers

obra/superpowers

An agentic skills framework & software development methodology that works.

Coding Agents Shell Grade B Listed MIT

66.0/100

Rank #195 of 1204

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Listing state

Listed

Evidence coverage

Grade B · 3/5 signals

Last push

2026-08-08 · 1d ago

Recent change

Rank +2

Is Superpowers safe? Superpowers scores 66.0/100 (Grade B), ranked #195 of 1204 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage B (3 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 5.6/10; recent commits are unsigned; last pushed 2026-08-08. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

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Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Publish package provenance or release attestations for stronger supply-chain evidence.

Recent Changes

2026-08-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 31 spots (#160 → #191)

2026-08-07

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: marketplace → declared

2026-08-07

Provider Removed

Runtime surface shrank — no longer detected: OpenAI

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 5.6/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

Publish provenance Add package provenance or release attestations so users can verify where shipped artifacts came from.

Increase signed commits Raise the share of verified-signed commits to make maintainer identity and release history easier to trust.

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96.4

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#18

In Coding Agents

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade B reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage B is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (3 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Activity & Reach

Stars

269.7k

Forks

24.1k

Last Push

2026-08-08

yesterday

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

799

npm

HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

151

Rank Change

▼4

was #191

Analysis

HVTrust Dimensions vs Coding Agents

66.0 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Superpowers Coding Agents average (65 agents)

Safety / Integrity50% OSSF Scorecard · 30% provenance · 20% signed commits

7.0 / 25

0.9 below avg 7.9

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

0.9 below avg 11.7

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

13.3 / 17

2.1 above avg 11.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

18.8 / 20

3.7 above avg 15.1

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

16.9 / 20

4.6 above avg 12.3

Activity Inputs

96.4 / 100

StarsRepository reach

30 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

24.9 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

21.5 / 25

CommunityFork signal

20 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

5.6 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Aug 9, 2026

Signed Commits

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 6

CI-Tests 0

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 10

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow -1

Dependency-Update-Tool 0

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies -1

SAST 0

Security-Policy 0

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions -1

Vulnerabilities 10

Is Superpowers safe?

Superpowers has a mixed signal profile. Some trust indicators are present, others are missing. Whether it is safe for your use case depends on which gaps matter to you — review the breakdown below before adopting in production.

Does Superpowers publish package provenance?

No published build provenance is currently detected for Superpowers. This is common for open-source projects but means consumers cannot independently verify that the package on the registry matches the GitHub source.

Does Superpowers have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Superpowers has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 5.6/10. The Scorecard checks for branch protection, signed releases, dependency updates, fuzzing, code review, and other supply-chain hygiene items. See the full check breakdown on this page.

Is Superpowers actively maintained?

Actively maintained. The repository was pushed to within the last 1 day(s).

What license does Superpowers use?

Superpowers ships under MIT. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are Superpowers's commits signed?

0% of the last 100 commits to Superpowers are verified-signed (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, or GitHub's signing flow). Signed commits help confirm that code was authored by who the commit claims.

Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.

AI agent surface

MCP, providers, tool surface

Scored in HVTrust

These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →

MCP Server Support

None detected

No MCP server signal detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

high confidence

2 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Credential signal: No explicit API-key/config marker detected.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Declared

Declared plugin/integration surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

low confidence

Unknown

Package source metadata is missing or inconclusive

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

MCP signal live
External deps live
Tool / plugin surface live
Package provenance drift live

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to Superpowers's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.

2026-08-07

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: marketplace → declared

2026-08-07

Provider Removed

Runtime surface shrank — no longer detected: OpenAI

2026-06-05

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → marketplace

2026-06-05

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI

Maintain Superpowers?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Superpowers from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.

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Reputation Timeline

Signal history

2026-08-08

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 31 spots (#160 → #191)

2026-08-07

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: marketplace → declared

2026-08-07

Provider Removed

Runtime surface shrank — no longer detected: OpenAI

2026-07-24

Rank Moved

Rank rose 22 spots (#176 → #154)

2026-07-24

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 7pts (91 → 98)

2026-07-16

Grade Changed

Trust grade B → C

2026-07-16

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 22 spots (#149 → #171)

2026-07-16

Activity Score Changed

Activity score down 6pts (100 → 94)

2026-07-13

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 13 spots (#118 → #131)

2026-06-16

Grade Changed

Trust grade C → B

2026-06-16

Rank Moved

Rank rose 41 spots (#136 → #95)

2026-06-16

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 7.5pts (59.0 → 66.5)

2026-06-16

Activity Score Changed

Activity score up 22pts (78 → 100)

2026-06-10

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 5.0/10

2026-06-10

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → C

2026-06-10

Rank Moved

Rank rose 67 spots (#198 → #131)

2026-06-10

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 27.3pts (32.5 → 59.8)

2026-06-05

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → marketplace

2026-06-05

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI

2026-06-04

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #201

GitHub → npm: superpowers

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