Get Shit Done
Ranked 4 of 23 agent skills by recommenders
Free prompting and workflow system for Claude Code that plans work, keeps context small and lands features on larger projects. Critics say it is heavy on turns, tokens and up-front planning.
Free prompting and workflow system for Claude Code that plans work, keeps context small and lands features on larger projects. Critics say it is heavy on turns, tokens and up-front planning.
63 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 31
- criticize it
- 32
- approval share
- 49%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 31 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Keeps context small and relevant
“forcing me to properly plan the implementation and ensuring the context remains small and relevant at all times”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?” “boy has it changed the context rot I used to experience and the system is just one-shotting everything I ask”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?” “it manages context effectively”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” Strong results on larger projects
“GSD consistently gets me 95% of the way there on complex tasks.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” “I was able to write 250K lines of code in less than a month”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” “has been mind-blowing for larger projects and refactors”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “How to effectively write quality code with AI” Clear planning and completion criteria
“I love the focus on defining what needs to be done and the criteria for completion.”
Comment from 24 Jan 2026 in “Get-Shit-Done” “It will ask you questions, break down the project into smaller tasks”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?” “The process that Get Shit Done forces is pretty good”
Comment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Ape Coding” Few errors, features land quickly
“the reliability and almost absence of any error is amazing”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “GPT-5.3-Codex” “I just discuss with GSD and few hours later features land.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Overengineered for small tasks
“for experienced engineers it quickly felt like overkill”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” “Both are dramatically over-engineered.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” “highly overengineered piece of software that unfortunately does not get shit done, burns limits and takes ages”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” - Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”
- Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “So where are all the AI apps?”
- Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”
Too many turns and tokens
“GSD pretty much solved these problems for me, but the down side of GSD is it takes too many turns to get something done.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” “highly overengineered piece of software that unfortunately does not get shit done, burns limits and takes ages”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” “Required far too much back and forth. Ate too many tokens, and required too much human in the loop.”
Comment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” Rigid plans, hard to adjust
“It requires a waterfall process. And, I found it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to adjust phases/plans”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System” “I think these type of systems (gsd/superpowers) are way too opinionated.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”
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| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superpowers | 138 | 72 | 66% | 12 | 4 mo7 owners | — |
| Claude Skills | 59 | 26 | 69% | 11 | — | Approved |
| grill-me skill by Matt Pocock | 39 | 2 | 95% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Get Shit DoneThis page | 31 | 32 | 49% | 7 | — | — |
| Matt Pocock's skills | 27 | 2 | 93% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
40 of the 68 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“any of them will get the job done and are strictly better than not using one”
“Those exist and they're called orchestration skill frameworks like Superpowers, GetShitDone, etc.”
“are way more mature and complete”
“forcing me to properly plan the implementation and ensuring the context remains small and relevant at all times”
“I think any process like these + worktrees is the serious pro-tip/unlock.”
“superpowers/get-shit-done type bloated workflows that try to do everything”
“Both of these have some interesting features but they are so very slow.”
“for experienced engineers it quickly felt like overkill”
“a kick-ass project either way”
“think this will be very useful going forwards”
“Honestly a fantastic harness right out of the box.”
“For what we were trying to build - few small sets of features - using gsd was an overkill.”
“it manages context effectively”
“GSD ran for hours to achieve the same thing.”
“Have had great results with it.”
“Required far too much back and forth. Ate too many tokens, and required too much human in the loop.”
“I am wholly opposed to `npx` being the sole installation mechanism”
“For me it was awesome. I needed a custom Pipeline for Preprocessing some Lab Data”
“It requires a waterfall process. And, I found it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to adjust phases/plans”
“Both are dramatically over-engineered.”
“I think these type of systems (gsd/superpowers) are way too opinionated.”
“it's better at interactive brainstorming and researching the big picture with me”
“Get Shit Done is best when when you're an influencer and need to create a Potemkin SaaS overnight”
“Things have changed quite a bit. I hope you give GSD a try yourself.”
“GSD pretty much solved these problems for me, but the down side of GSD is it takes too many turns to get something done.”
“the actual implementation was lacklustre and not worth the effort”
“highly overengineered piece of software that unfortunately does not get shit done, burns limits and takes ages”
“GSD consistently gets me 95% of the way there on complex tasks.”
“I just discuss with GSD and few hours later features land.”
“I was able to write 250K lines of code in less than a month”
“It's been a game changer for me.”
“The project lifecycle, commands, and agents aren't exactly "beginner-friendly" documented.”
“The process that Get Shit Done forces is pretty good”
“boy has it changed the context rot I used to experience and the system is just one-shotting everything I ask”
“It will ask you questions, break down the project into smaller tasks”
“See what this skill does in Claude Code, you want something similar”
“has been mind-blowing for larger projects and refactors”
“the reliability and almost absence of any error is amazing”
“I love the focus on defining what needs to be done and the criteria for completion.”
“I've been using that and it's excellent”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.