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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%
Each figure is one person. RecommendsCriticizes

Recommended in 7 of 13 months

  1. November 2025: not recommended
  2. December 2025: not recommended
  3. January 2026: recommended
  4. February 2026: recommended
  5. March 2026: recommended
  6. April 2026: recommended
  7. May 2026: recommended
  8. June 2026: not recommended
  9. July 2026: not recommended
  10. August 2026: recommended
  11. September 2026: recommended
  12. October 2026: not recommended
  13. 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”
  • 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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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”

RecommendsComment from 8 Sep 2026 in “Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?”

“Those exist and they're called orchestration skill frameworks like Superpowers, GetShitDone, etc.”

RecommendsComment from 18 Aug 2026 in “Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow”

“are way more mature and complete”

RecommendsComment from 23 May 2026 in “Show HN: I Made a Claude Skill for SDD”

“forcing me to properly plan the implementation and ensuring the context remains small and relevant at all times”

MixedComment from 5 May 2026 in “Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?”

“I think any process like these + worktrees is the serious pro-tip/unlock.”

RecommendsComment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Senior engineer best practice for scaling yourself with Claude Code”

“superpowers/get-shit-done type bloated workflows that try to do everything”

CriticizesComment from 24 Mar 2026 in “So where are all the AI apps?”

“Both of these have some interesting features but they are so very slow.”

MixedComment from 21 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“for experienced engineers it quickly felt like overkill”

MixedComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“a kick-ass project either way”

RecommendsComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“think this will be very useful going forwards”

RecommendsComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“Honestly a fantastic harness right out of the box.”

RecommendsComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“For what we were trying to build - few small sets of features - using gsd was an overkill.”

CriticizesComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“it manages context effectively”

RecommendsComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“GSD ran for hours to achieve the same thing.”

MixedComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“Have had great results with it.”

RecommendsComment from 18 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.”

CriticizesComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“I am wholly opposed to `npx` being the sole installation mechanism”

MixedComment from 18 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“For me it was awesome. I needed a custom Pipeline for Preprocessing some Lab Data”

RecommendsComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“It requires a waterfall process. And, I found it difficult, and in some cases impossible, to adjust phases/plans”

CriticizesComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“Both are dramatically over-engineered.”

MixedComment 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.”

CriticizesComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“it's better at interactive brainstorming and researching the big picture with me”

RecommendsComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“Get Shit Done is best when when you're an influencer and need to create a Potemkin SaaS overnight”

CriticizesComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“Things have changed quite a bit. I hope you give GSD a try yourself.”

RecommendsComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“GSD pretty much solved these problems for me, but the down side of GSD is it takes too many turns to get something done.”

MixedComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“the actual implementation was lacklustre and not worth the effort”

MixedComment 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”

CriticizesComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“GSD consistently gets me 95% of the way there on complex tasks.”

RecommendsComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“I just discuss with GSD and few hours later features land.”

RecommendsComment 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”

RecommendsComment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System”

“It's been a game changer for me.”

RecommendsComment from 14 Mar 2026 in “1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6”

“The project lifecycle, commands, and agents aren't exactly "beginner-friendly" documented.”

MixedComment from 9 Mar 2026 in “I couldn't figure out Get-Shit-Done, so I let it Vibe Code its own guide”

“The process that Get Shit Done forces is pretty good”

RecommendsComment from 2 Mar 2026 in “Ape Coding”

“boy has it changed the context rot I used to experience and the system is just one-shotting everything I ask”

RecommendsComment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?”

“It will ask you questions, break down the project into smaller tasks”

RecommendsComment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?”

“See what this skill does in Claude Code, you want something similar”

RecommendsComment from 7 Feb 2026 in “LLMs are powerful, but enterprises are deterministic by nature”

“has been mind-blowing for larger projects and refactors”

RecommendsComment from 6 Feb 2026 in “How to effectively write quality code with AI”

“the reliability and almost absence of any error is amazing”

RecommendsComment from 6 Feb 2026 in “GPT-5.3-Codex”

“I love the focus on defining what needs to be done and the criteria for completion.”

MixedComment from 24 Jan 2026 in “Get-Shit-Done”

“I've been using that and it's excellent”

RecommendsComment from 24 Jan 2026 in “Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms”

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