iha2 / superlite

superlite 
 Hand an agent a spec. Come back to finished, tested work. 
 An autonomous, feather-light build workflow for Claude Code.
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## What it is
superlite plans a build, splits it into tasks that can run side by side, hands each task to the cheapest agent that can do it well, checks the seams, and reviews the result. You decide **who orchestrates**: you, or the AI.
- **Autonomous.** Describe the project, pick the AI orchestrator, and walk away. Decisions it has to make are recorded as rulings, not asked as questions.
- **Fast.** Up to 18 agents at once, a plan written for parallelism, and mechanical work on Haiku.
### Not a rival to superpowers
superlite is **not a competitor** to superpowers. superpowers is a careful, collaborative workflow that keeps a human close to every step, and it is excellent at that. superlite starts from its ideas (the plugin layout, the session-start hook, the lifecycle skills, with credit) and tunes them for a different job: **autonomous development, at speed**. If you want to steer each step, use superpowers. If you want to hand over a spec and come back to working code, use superlite. Pick one per session.
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## It is fast
Same machine, same task: build a Python site generator and a spreadsheet engine from one spec (`sitegen` + `minisheet`, 177 hidden tests), headless on Opus.
| What we measured | superpowers | superlite |
|---|---|---|
| Wall-clock to a finished build | 33.6 min (stock, 3 runs: 21.2 / 31.9 / 47.6) 23.5 min (orchestrated, 3 runs) | **16.1 min** |
| Faster than superpowers | | **52%** vs stock, **31%** vs orchestrated |
| Fastest-to-slowest spread, 3 runs | 26.4 min | **9.1 min** |
| Agents working at once | 3 to 4 | **up to 18** |
| Hidden tests passed | 177 / 177 | 177 / 177 (a tie, at higher speed) |
| Earlier 9-module benchmark (1 run each) | 34.4 min | **8.8 min** |
| superlite against its own first version | 26.9 min | **16.1 min** (40% faster) |
And it is not tied to one language. A TypeScript site generator went from spec to 132 / 132 hidden tests in **8.5 minutes**.
 The 16.1 min figure is one run of the current build. The superpowers figures, the spread row (3 runs of each, on an earlier superlite build) and the 9-module row (the first version, 1 run each) come from earlier runs on the same machine, so treat the gaps as indications, not a statistical proof. superlite can cost more than superpowers and scores lower on the extra robustness probes (4 of 7 against about 5.7 of 7). Details, runs and caveats: bench/ and the Benchmark section below. 
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## Pick how to use it
| Situation | Say something like | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| **MVP, a new project** | "Build me a static site generator from this spec" | One batch of questions, a plan, then parallel tasks on Sonnet and Haiku, package reviews and one fresh final review |
| **A feature on existing code** | "Add CSV export with column widths to the existing app" | The same flow, with seam checks between the new and the existing cod