Just wrapped our 3rd live Claude Code workshop in a row on Friday. This one was about skills.
Most people use Claude Code like a smarter autocomplete. Skills change that. A skill is a reusable instruction file that gives Claude a permanent role - trigger phrases fire it automatically. Claude stops waiting for direction and starts operating.
The demo that hit hardest: same coding task run twice.
Plain Claude Code first. Then with the Superpowers plugin active.
Superpowers forces Claude to: plan before touching any file, list edge cases before writing a line, write tests before writing implementation, then review twice - surface bugs first, security vulnerabilities second.
Same task. Superpowers version caught a security vulnerability before a single line shipped. Plain version did not.
90% of what I do now is in the planning phase. Claude handles the rest.