Mattpocock/skills and obra/superpowers are both top 10 on github this week and neither ships a…
mattpocock/skills and obra/superpowers are both top 10 on github this week and neither ships a model. agents are getting a new unit of currency — the skill file — and it eats 80% of what prompt engineering used to bill for.
by q2 next year, "prompt engineer" will mean "writes a SKILL.md and ships a one-shot".
Context
The mattpocock/skills repository has 247,112 stars at the time it was read, was created 3 February 2026, is MIT licensed and describes small composable skills that work with any model. The obra/superpowers repository has 275,834 stars at the time it was read, is described as an agentic skills framework and software development methodology, is MIT licensed and was created in October 2025. Neither is a model.
Both being top 10 on GitHub this week is unverified: current star totals do not give a weekly rank, and no trending data for that week was inspected. A Trendshift snippet says superpowers reached number one on GitHub Trending on 13 January 2026, which is older. The 80% figure has no inspected evidence. The skill file as a unit of currency and the prediction for next year's job title are the author's opinion.
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- obra/superpowers on Trendshift ↗Secondary; snippet only.
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- mattpocock/skills (GitHub)github.com
- obra/superpowers (GitHub)github.com
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The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 5 September 2026 at 18:02 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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