Agentic frameworks
An agentic framework is a set of skills that gives your agent a professional flow. The agent interviews you, writes a spec and a plan, builds test-first and reviews its work. Here are three that many developers use, from the lightest to the most automatic. Pick one.
Matt Pocock's skills
About 27 small skills from Matt Pocock, a developer educator known for Total TypeScript and AI Hero. You call each skill by name when you need it. The main flow: the agent interviews you (grill-me), writes the spec (to-spec), cuts it into tickets (to-tickets) and builds one ticket at a time, test-first, with a code review at the end (implement). MIT licence, about 280,000 stars on GitHub in October 2026.
Strengths
- Small skills you call yourself, so a small change stays small.
- The interview comes first, so the agent stops guessing what you want.
- Very widely used, and updated almost every week.
Weaknesses
- Engineering words to learn: tickets, decision records, triage.
- Its setup asks first where your tickets live.
- The README does not name Antigravity; there, you install the skills with the installer from skills.sh.
Start here: github.com/mattpocock/skills
Addy Osmani's Agent Skills
25 skills for the whole road, one command per phase: /spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review and /ship, with reviewer roles and checklists. Addy Osmani led developer experience for Chrome at Google for many years and now works on Claude Code at Anthropic. The set includes web skills: accessibility, Core Web Vitals and testing with Chrome DevTools. MIT licence, about 100,000 stars in October 2026.
Strengths
- A clear picture: one command per phase.
- Web skills that fit a website: accessibility, Core Web Vitals, DevTools.
- Setup guides for many agents, Antigravity included.
Weaknesses
- The most to learn of the three: you adopt the whole system.
- Built for production: CI, monitoring and staged releases are more than a one-page site needs.
- Young: new releases every week, so details still change.
Start here: github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
Superpowers
About 15 skills by Jesse Vincent that start by themselves when a task fits. The flow runs on its own: brainstorm, plan, build test-first, review between tasks, finish the branch. MIT licence, about 300,000 stars in October 2026, and a new release every few weeks.
Strengths
- Hands-off: no commands to learn.
- Works with more agents than the other two, Antigravity included.
- Actively maintained, with a skill that explains a session that went wrong.
Weaknesses
- The heaviest process: a lot of ceremony for a one-line fix.
- More process means more tokens and more waiting.
- The flow runs by itself, so you see less of it, and learn less of it.
Start here: github.com/obra/superpowers
Which one?
- You want to learn the flow and call each step yourself: Matt Pocock's skills.
- You want one command per phase and web checks built in: Addy Osmani's Agent Skills.
- You want the agent to run the whole flow by itself: Superpowers.
Install only one. Two sets of skills for the same jobs make it harder for the agent to choose. Each README shows how to install it for your agent.
- Read a skill before you install it. Skills run with your agent's full permissions. All three are open source, so you can read every skill on GitHub.
- Your
AGENTS.mdwas written for the workshop. It tells the agent to work Role by Role. If that gets in the way of the framework, delete its section "Work role by role".
Facts as of 8 October 2026, from each project's repository. Star counts change fast; the links show today's.
Check yourself
Five questions on this page. Pick one answer each, then check them.