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Show HN: Tracking spec-driven development in the wild

A new community-maintained open directory is tracking spec-driven development frameworks and real-world projects to evaluate their effectiveness, featuring Matt Pocock's composable agent skills built around 'grilling' interviews and the Superpowers framework used by projects like logitune and yserver. The directory, which updates repository metrics daily and requires human review for qualitative assessments, currently lists frameworks including Claude Code and Codex, with Matt Pocock's skills repository at 241.2K stars.

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Show HN: Tracking spec-driven development in the wild
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An open directory tracking spec-driven development frameworks and real-world projects over time, to evaluate how effective different approaches are in practice.

Matt Pocock's composable family of agent skills built around "grilling" — a relentless one-question-at-a-time interview that aligns human and agent before code is written — chaining into spec, tickets, and TDD implementation.

Claude Code

Codex

Any skills-compatible agent

mattpocock/skills · ★ 241.2K stars · pushed 7 days ago · Reviewed last month

Agile AI development framework that simulates a full team of specialized agent personas across a four-phase lifecycle, scaling its ceremony to project complexity.

A Linux configuration app for Logitech devices (an Options+ clone) that has routed nearly every feature and bug fix through paired Superpowers design specs and implementation plans since its first week.

mmaher88/logitune · using Superpowers · ★ 643 stars · pushed last month · Reviewed 5 hours ago

A modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust, developed spec-first from day one — every feature phase flows through dated design docs, implementation plans, and findings under docs/superpowers/.

joske/yserver · using Superpowers · ★ 549 stars · pushed 3 days ago · Reviewed 5 hours ago

This observatory is community-maintained. Repository metrics update automatically every day; the qualitative assessments — spec structure, drift, rework, maintenance outcomes — need human eyes. Submit a framework or project, or help review an existing one. Read how we track to see what goes into each page.

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