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superpowers-zh vs sno-station-skills
superpowers-zh has 8,363 GitHub stars, 774 forks, 12 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. sno-station-skills has 560 stars, 382 forks, 0 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. superpowers-zh leads on adoption by 1,393% (8,363 vs 560 stars). superpowers-zh is written in JavaScript under MIT; sno-station-skills is written in Shell under Apache-2.0. superpowers-zh has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, sno-station-skills 68%. superpowers-zh was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 3 topic tags (agent-skills, claude-code, code-review), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| superpowers-zh | sno-station-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 8.4K | ★ 560 |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | JavaScript | Shell |
| Last push | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-20 |
| Forks | ⑂ 774 | ⑂ 382 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick superpowers-zh if
- You weight community size — 8.4K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick sno-station-skills if
- You want the sno-station-skills feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Shell
- You evaluated both and sno-station-skills fits your workflow better
About superpowers-zh
superpowers zh（AI 编程超能力 · 中文增强版） 🌐 简体中文 繁體中文 English (upstream) 🦸 superpowers（250k+ ⭐）完整汉化 + 4 个中国原创 skills — 让 Claude Code / Copilot CLI / Hermes Agent / Cursor / Windsurf / Kiro / Gemini CLI / Qoder 等 26 款 AI 编程工具 真正会干活。从头脑风暴到代码审查，从 TDD 到调试，每个 skill 都是经过实战验证的工作方法论。 Chinese community edition of superpowers — 20 skills across 26 AI coding tools, including full translations and China specific development skills. 📖 免费配套学习 → 从零学会 AI 编程（182 节）＋ 从零构建 AI 智能体（40 节）：两门免费实操课 + 实战社区，superpowers 装好后配上方法论效率翻倍（站上共 13 门课、648 节， 全部 ¥0 ——另有 AI 绘画 / 写小说 / 漫剧 / 量化 / DeepSeek / 深度专注 等） 🌍 Also available in English · 日本語 ·…
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About sno-station-skills
Sno Station Skills — The working habits of a real team, installed into your AI agents. One AI agent is a brilliant new hire with no colleagues. It reviews its own work, so it misses what it cannot see. It stops dead when its quota runs out, at 3 a.m., halfway through your build. It says "done" when the tests are green and nothing actually happened. It builds three layers of machinery you never asked for. And tomorrow it makes the same mistake it made today, because nobody told it otherwise. Sno Station Skills fixes the team, not the model. These are the skills Sno Station installs into the agents you already…
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Frequently asked questions
Is superpowers-zh or sno-station-skills more popular?
superpowers-zh has 8,363 GitHub stars and sno-station-skills has 560. superpowers-zh has the larger community by that measure.
Are superpowers-zh and sno-station-skills free?
Both are open source. superpowers-zh is licensed under MIT and sno-station-skills under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between superpowers-zh and sno-station-skills?
superpowers-zh is written in JavaScript and sno-station-skills in Shell. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, superpowers-zh or sno-station-skills?
Choose superpowers-zh if you want the larger community (8,363 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose sno-station-skills if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.