Skip the per-project Claude setup grind. One command picks your skills, writes CLAUDE.md, pins your config, and gives Claude a route-aware workflow (small tasks stay light; large ones lean on the superpowers pipeline). Workflow, not just a toolbelt.
Solo devs juggling multiple repos.
In Claude Code:
/plugin marketplace add rockyhong/super-bootstrap
/plugin install super-bootstrap@super-bootstrap
/super-bootstrap
One command per repo. Auto-routes:
- Pre-existing repo → scans stack, asks a few clarifying Qs, scaffolds
CLAUDE.md+ docs, curates skills / MCPs / hooks. - Greenfield → lean ideation Q&A seeds foundation docs with first move queued, then scaffolds the harness.
Picks are matched to your stack and labeled by trust signal (Anthropic-vetted / popular / fresh / unaudited).
flowchart TD
entry(["/super-bootstrap"])
entry --> gate{"greenfield?"}
gate -->|yes| ideate["ideation"]
gate -->|no| scan
ideate -->|writes| seeds["foundation docs"]
seeds --> scan["project scan"]
scan --> scaffold["scaffold CLAUDE.md<br/>+ skeleton docs"]
scaffold --> curate["curate skills / MCPs / hooks"]
curate --> done["harness live<br/>start building"]
Re-run any time — incremental, never overwrites your edits.
| Path | Behavior |
|---|---|
CLAUDE.md |
Layered per-section — never overwritten. Diff shown before any write. |
.claude/settings.json |
Merged — adds enabledPlugins + extraKnownMarketplaces; your other settings preserved. |
docs/, .claude/rules/ |
Seeded with new files from detected stack. User-grown content never touched on re-run. |
.env*, *.key, *credential* |
Skipped from scan entirely — never read, never written. |
Also bundles /sb-todo (active-work scanner) and /sb-commit (session-isolated, doc-sync-gated, no push) — namespaced to avoid collision with other plugins.
| Tool | Role |
|---|---|
| superpowers | Workflow pipeline (brainstorm → spec → plan → execute) baked into the CLAUDE.md |
| andrej-karpathy-skills | Source of the Coding Principles section in the scaffolded CLAUDE.md (Karpathy-derived guardrails) |
| claude-code-setup | Anthropic's plugin recommender — fast-path source if installed |
| Anthropic plugin marketplace | Anthropic-vetted skills, MCPs, hooks, subagents |
| modelcontextprotocol/registry | Official MCP discovery registry — indexes reference impls + community |
| everything-claude-code (ECC) | Component bundle (skills + agents + rules + hooks). Language-specific rules preferred over local skeletons. |
| awesome-claude-skills | Curated category index, strong on workflow / external-tools picks |
| VoltAgent/awesome-agent-skills | 1000+ skills from official dev teams (Anthropic, Vercel, Stripe, Cloudflare) + community |
| Jeffallan/claude-skills | Fullstack-skills marketplace |
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