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It's a cli wrapper. Don't know how you could say it wasn't. edit: GSD is a cli wrapper, Superpowers not so much. Both are over-engineered for an easy problem

It's a cli wrapper. Don't know how you could say it wasn't. edit: GSD is a cli wrapper, Superpowers not so much. Both are over-engineered for an easy problem IMHO.

ramoz 6mo ago
Both are dramatically over-engineered. & That's okay. I find them to be products of an industry reconciling how to really work with AI as well as optimize workflows around it. Similar to Gastown et al. Otherwise, if you can own your own thinking, orchestrating, and steering of agents, you're in a more mature place.
- hatmanstack 6mo ago
  I think that's fair, if they were created today I'm sure the creators would make different decisions, a penalty of getting there first.
- mycall 6mo ago
  I also see it as fleeting as right when you have it figured out, a new model will work differently and may/may not need all their engineering layers.
hermanzegerman 6mo ago
No it's not. It's using Skills and Agents and runs always inside of Claude Code, Gemini CLI etc...
- swingboy 6mo ago
  GSD delegates a lot of the deterministic work to a JavaScript CLI. That might be what the poster is talking about.
  - gtirloni 6mo ago
    That's definitely not a CLI wrapper. But people are calling Claude Code (clearly a TUI) a CLI so :shrug: GSD is a collection of skills, commands, MCPs(?), helper scripts, etc that you use inside Claude Code (and others). If anything, Claude Code is the wrapper around those things and not the other way around. Re: helper scripts. Anyone doing extensive work in any AI-assisted platform has experienced the situation where the agent wants to update 10k files individually and it takes ages. CC is often smart enought to code a quick Python script for those changes and the GSD helper scripts help in the same way. It's just trying to save tokens. Hardly a wrapper around Claude Code.

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It's a cli wrapper. Don't know how you could say it wasn't. edit: GSD is a cli wrapper, Superpowers not so much. Both are over-engineered for an easy problem

by hatmanstack 6mo ago

It's a cli wrapper. Don't know how you could say it wasn't. edit: GSD is a cli wrapper, Superpowers not so much. Both are over-engineered for an easy problem IMHO.

ramoz 6mo ago
Both are dramatically over-engineered. & That's okay. I find them to be products of an industry reconciling how to really work with AI as well as optimize workflows around it. Similar to Gastown et al. Otherwise, if you can own your own thinking, orchestrating, and steering of agents, you're in a more mature place.
- hatmanstack 6mo ago
  I think that's fair, if they were created today I'm sure the creators would make different decisions, a penalty of getting there first.
- mycall 6mo ago
  I also see it as fleeting as right when you have it figured out, a new model will work differently and may/may not need all their engineering layers.
hermanzegerman 6mo ago
No it's not. It's using Skills and Agents and runs always inside of Claude Code, Gemini CLI etc...
- swingboy 6mo ago
  GSD delegates a lot of the deterministic work to a JavaScript CLI. That might be what the poster is talking about.
  - gtirloni 6mo ago
    That's definitely not a CLI wrapper. But people are calling Claude Code (clearly a TUI) a CLI so :shrug: GSD is a collection of skills, commands, MCPs(?), helper scripts, etc that you use inside Claude Code (and others). If anything, Claude Code is the wrapper around those things and not the other way around. Re: helper scripts. Anyone doing extensive work in any AI-assisted platform has experienced the situation where the agent wants to update 10k files individually and it takes ages. CC is often smart enought to code a quick Python script for those changes and the GSD helper scripts help in the same way. It's just trying to save tokens. Hardly a wrapper around Claude Code.