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.
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Spec structure
- Location
docs/superpowers/- Formats
- Markdown
- Notes
- 143 Markdown files in three subdirectories:
plans/holds 72 dated implementation plans (checkbox task lists that invokesuperpowers:executing-plans),specs/holds 70 matching design docs suffixed-design.md, andrelease-notes/holds one entry. Files pair up under aYYYY-MM-DD-<topic>convention, e.g.2026-05-18-log-persistence.mdand2026-05-18-log-persistence-design.md.
Assessment drift: moderate
Spec-to-code drift
Moderate. The spec tree has been frozen since 2026-05-23 while the project ships at high tempo — four releases
(v0.19.1 through v0.22.0) landed in the eight weeks since, none adding plans or specs here. The staleness
looks like deliberate process migration rather than neglect: a May 2026 curation pass verified the docs and
deleted ten stale ones, and AGENTS.md now routes new design work through docs/adr/ (active through
2026-07-17) and spec-labelled GitHub issues, leaving docs/superpowers/ as an archive of completed work that
newer code no longer updates.
Defects and rework
Rework was routed back through the same spec workflow rather than patched ad hoc: bug fixes got their own
plan/design pairs (e.g. 2026-03-23-session-memory-leak-fix, 2026-04-02-grok-issues-fix), and plans embed
test-first checkboxes (“write failing test” steps) per task. Whether spec-driven changes regressed less than
untracked ones is not yet assessed.
Maintenance outcomes
A striking velocity case: from template initialization (2026-02-06) to a released multi-provider product
(v0.22.0 by 2026-07-15) in about five months, with roughly 70 design docs covering the buildout across 11
contributors. The specs stayed load-bearing after implementation — the living AGENTS.md architecture guide
cites individual design docs (e.g. 2026-04-13-session-actor-design.md) as the reference for subsystems. The
open question is the migration away from the tracked directory: whether ADRs plus issue-tracked specs preserve
the same spec-to-code traceability.
Timeline
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Latest spec activity
Commit #620 ("fix(logging): move log directory out of the projects root + harden migration and agent sandbox", translated) touched the log-persistence plan and spec; the tree has been static since.
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Spec tree consolidated and curated
Commit #595 ("docs: verify and clean up outdated design documents", translated) renamed 36 legacy `docs/plans/` files into `docs/superpowers/` and deleted 10 stale docs.
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`docs/superpowers/` directory created
First files on the tracked path — an Alembic best-practices plan and design doc — landed in commit #115.
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Superpowers workflow present from the first commit
The initial commit (`chore: initialize project from template`) already carried dated plans and design docs under the earlier `docs/plans/` path, the oldest dated 2026-01-21 — spec-first from day one.