This video is all about the one free plugin that has genuinely 10x’d how I use Claude Code: Superpowers. It’s an open-source plugin by Jesse Vincent that installs a set of “agentic skills” so Claude Code stops acting like a coder that rushes straight into implementation and starts behaving like a disciplined developer. Instead of jumping into code, it moves through clarify → design → plan → code → verify, which is exactly what you want if you care about not burning tokens on the wrong thing. I walk you through how the dispatcher skill (“using superpowers”) automatically chooses from 14 skills depending on what you’re doing—brainstorming, hyper-detailed planning with file paths, executing plans with safety stops, spinning up sub-agents, parallelizing independent tasks, and adding quality gates like TDD, systematic debugging, and verification before completion. I also show live demos where it spins up a local dashboard to help you pick between options (layouts, UI vibes, approaches) so you can correct direction before it wastes a bunch of tokens. Then I share a 12-run experiment (6 with Superpowers, 6 without) using the same prompts/model (Opus 4.6), capped at $2/run, with zero human interaction. The results were directional, not “proof,” but interesting: ~9% cost savings, ~14% fewer tokens overall, tighter variance, and noticeably better code quality on medium/complex tasks—while simple tasks can see overhead you don’t really need.