An open directory tracking spec-driven development frameworks and real-world projects over time, to evaluate how effective different approaches are in practice.https://sddobservatory.com/enhttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/agentic-context-engine/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/agentic-context-engine/Kayba's open-source Python framework for agents that learn from experience, distilling strategies from session traces into a persistent skillbook. Its OpenClaw integration and optional MCP server were both built through Spec Kit.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/arcreel/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/arcreel/Open-source AI video workspace powered by AI agents — novel to character, scene, and prop design to script, storyboard, and video, with cross-shot consistency — built almost entirely through Superpowers plan/design-doc pairs.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/banana-slides/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/banana-slides/An AI-native slide-deck generator built on nano banana pro, aiming at "Vibe PPT" — decks from a sentence, an outline, or per-page descriptions, with template images and smart material parsing. Runs its larger feature efforts through Superpowers design specs and implementation plans.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/desktop-cc-gui/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/desktop-cc-gui/An open-source desktop client (Tauri 2 + React 19 + Rust) that wraps Claude Code, Codex CLI and other AI coding tools in a GUI — running the heaviest OpenSpec workspace we track, with hundreds of archived change folders and strict validation gates.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/evalai/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/evalai/Cloud-CV's open platform for evaluating and comparing AI algorithms at scale — a decade-old Django codebase that used superpowers specs and plans to build its Yutori-driven benchmark scouting and outreach subsystem.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/folo/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/folo/AI RSS reader (TypeScript) that drove one substantial feature — its over-the-air update service apps/ota — from design spec to shipped implementation through a superpowers spec-and-plan cycle over three days in April 2026.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/growi/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/growi/Team collaboration wiki (est. 2017) running feature development through Kiro-style spec folders — one folder per feature with spec.json, requirements.md, design.md, and tasks.md, plus a full steering set.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/logitune/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/logitune/A Linux configuration app for Logitech devices (an Options+ clone) that has routed nearly every feature and bug fix through paired Superpowers design specs and implementation plans since its first week.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/miosub/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/miosub/One-stop automated subtitle generator covering downloading, transcription, translation, and hardcoding end to end — a TypeScript/React/Electron app built on Google Gemini and Whisper.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/mos/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/mos/macOS scroll-smoothing utility (est. 2017, Swift) that adopted the Superpowers spec/plan workflow in March 2026 for feature work such as Logitech HID++ integration and custom shortcut bindings.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/schematic/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/schematic/A database management UI for Spring Boot (Java) that retrofitted the AI Unified Process artifact set — vision.md, requirements.md, entity_model.md, and fourteen use-case specs — onto a codebase started in 2022.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/sesh/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/sesh/A smart tmux session manager written in Go, routing its recent feature work through the superpowers plan/spec workflow — paired design docs and implementation plans land in-repo with the code.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/sokuji/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/sokuji/Live speech translation for meetings — an Electron desktop app and Chrome extension mixing on-device AI models with cloud providers — where features ship through dated Superpowers plan and design-spec documents.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/the-edge-agent/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/the-edge-agent/Neurosymbolic AI agent framework (LLM + Prolog reasoning, Python and Rust) running BMAD's story and QA-gate workflow at real scale — hundreds of story files and QA artifacts — while skipping the PRD and architecture documents.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/understand-anything/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/understand-anything/Code-comprehension tool (TypeScript) that turns any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph, with superpowers design specs and implementation plans spanning nearly its whole life.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/uniclipboard/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/uniclipboard/Local-first, end-to-end-encrypted clipboard sync tool in Rust whose .planning/ tree is a heavily used working GSD instance — five completed milestone cycles with per-phase plan, progress, and findings docs.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/wukongim/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/wukongim/"More than just IM" — a distributed instant-messaging platform in Go whose v3 rewrite (multi-raft runtime, cluster storage, gateway) is driven through a large corpus of superpowers design specs and implementation plans.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/yserver/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/yserver/A modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust, developed spec-first from day one — every feature phase flows through dated design docs, implementation plans, and findings under docs/superpowers/.Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/agent-os/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/agent-os/Standards-first system that extracts your codebase's real conventions and injects them into agent context to shape better specs.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/ai-unified-process/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/ai-unified-process/Requirements-centric SDD that adapts the Unified Process for AI: use cases owned by requirements engineers, with code, tests, and docs regenerated around them.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/augment-cosmos/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/augment-cosmos/Augment Code's commercial "Unified Agents Platform": a reviewed spec as the human checkpoint for fleets of agents — Experts with persistent memory and durable Sessions, orchestrated org-wide on Augment's Context Engine.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/bmad-method/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/bmad-method/Agile AI development framework that simulates a full team of specialized agent personas across a four-phase lifecycle, scaling its ceremony to project complexity.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/cc-sdd/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/cc-sdd/Kiro-style spec harness installed as Agent Skills into eight coding agents from one npx command, now centered on long-running autonomous implementation with per-task independent review.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/drydock/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/drydock/A complete SDLC for specifications, grounded in Agile and Test-Driven Development.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/spec-kit/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/spec-kit/Open-source toolkit from GitHub that scaffolds a phase-gated, spec-first workflow into any of 40+ AI coding agents.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/grill-me-skills/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/grill-me-skills/Matt Pocock's composable family of agent skills built around "grilling" — a relentless one-question-at-a-time interview that aligns human and agent before code is written — chaining into spec, tickets, and TDD implementation.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/gsd/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/gsd/Context-engineering-first SDD loop — fresh-context subagents, persistent state artifacts, and phase-gated milestones — continued by the community OpenGSD org after the original repo was archived.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/kiro/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/kiro/AWS's agentic IDE where specs are a native feature: requirements, design, and task artifacts with approval gates, living in .kiro/ inside the repo.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/musubi/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/musubi/Maximalist open-source SDD: EARS-format requirements, a nine-article constitution, CLI-enforced requirements-to-test traceability, and delta specs, installed into seven coding agents from one npx command.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/openspec/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/openspec/Change-folder-based SDD for AI coding assistants — fluid, iterative, and explicitly built for brownfield codebases, not just greenfield.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/superpowers/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/superpowers/Skill-based agent discipline with hard gates: a mandatory brainstorm → spec → plan pipeline with human approval before any code, then per-task subagent execution under strict test-driven development.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/tessl/https://sddobservatory.com/frameworks/tessl/Commercial "spec-as-source" platform from Snyk founder Guy Podjarny: a .spec.md framework, a versioned registry of evaluated agent context, and MCP integration into any coding agent.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/akka-net/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/akka-net/The canonical actor-model implementation for .NET — a major, long-running OSS project routing its modernization work through OpenSpec change folders.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/debrief/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/debrief/Long-running open-source maritime analysis workbench (active since the 1990s) using Spec Kit to drive a documentation and migration effort.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/openspec/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/openspec/The OpenSpec CLI and toolkit itself, developed with its own change-folder workflow — "OpenSpec is built with OpenSpec".Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://sddobservatory.com/projects/spirit-of-kiro/https://sddobservatory.com/projects/spirit-of-kiro/A game built with and powered by generative AI by the Kiro team — Kiro's own public showcase project.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT