Head to head · Git operations · October 2026 research run
Graphify vs Superpowers
Graphify scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Superpowers's 64.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Superpowers leads on reliability. Both do git operations.
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Which one, for what
Graphify B
Best for A person or team who wants a coding agent to query a structural map of a repository, with docs and papers folded in, before grepping.
Ahead on
- Schema & documentation, 77 against 71
- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 71
- Security & auth, 66 against 58
- Transparency & trust, 81 against 68
Also in its favour
- Runs on your own machine
- Free to start without a card
Watch for
Headless extraction sends docs to whichever cloud provider's key is set, Gemini first and Kimi in China second, unless GRAPHIFY_BACKEND is set
Best for A test-first development method for coding agents
Ahead on
- Reliability, 68 against 58
Watch for
No CI workflow in the repository; the test suites in tests/ run only on a contributor's machine
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Graphify | Superpowers | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 58 | 68 | Superpowers +10 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 77 | 71 | Graphify +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 77 | 71 | Graphify +6 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 66 | 58 | Graphify +8 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 81 | 83 | Superpowers +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 81 | 68 | Graphify +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -1 | -3 | |
| Total | B 68.9/100 | B 64.5/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Graphify | Superpowers |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | MCP server | Agent framework |
| Vendor | Graphify Labs | Prime Radiant |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | stdio, Streamable HTTP | |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 since 0.9.25 of 22 July 2026. Contributions made before then remain available under MIT, with the original text kept in LICENSE-MIT and referenced from NOTICE | MIT (Copyright (c) 2025 Jesse Vincent) |
| Tools exposed | 10 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 309k stars |
Verdicts
Graphify
Graphify parses code locally with tree-sitter, ships near-daily releases with a dated changelog, and keeps its ten MCP tools read-only and compact. The optional model step picks a cloud provider from whichever API key is set, and community naming can fall back to the claude CLI, so GRAPHIFY_BACKEND=none is needed to keep everything on the machine.
Superpowers
Fifteen MIT-licensed skills that make a coding agent design, plan, test first and review before it finishes, with five releases in 90 days and dated release notes. It has no CI workflow or security policy, its bootstrap insists a skill be invoked before any reply, and its optional visual companion loads a logo from Prime Radiant's site unless disabled.
Before you call either
Graphify
- Install
graphifyywith two y's; othergraphify*packages on PyPI are not the project's - Set
GRAPHIFY_BACKEND=noneor use--code-onlywhen no source or doc text may leave the machine - Pass an absolute path to graph.json in the MCP config, and run
graph_statsfirst to check the graph loaded - Set
GRAPHIFY_API_KEYbefore binding the HTTP server to 0.0.0.0; it only warns when no key is set - Run 0.9.70 or later before indexing an untrusted repository, because earlier versions carry the Fortran file-read advisory
Superpowers
- Install it once per coding agent; each harness has its own install command, and the README says a second harness needs a second install.
- Expect brainstorming to start before any code on a build request. Say so plainly if your human partner wants a quick change done without a design document.
- Name a model on every subagent dispatch, as the skill asks; an unnamed subagent inherits the session's most expensive model.
- Set SUPERPOWERS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 before using the visual companion if no request may leave the machine.
- Keep
.superpowers/sdd/out ofgit clean -fdx; it holds the progress ledger a resumed run reads.
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Graphify or Superpowers?
Graphify scores 68.9 (B) on agent readiness against Superpowers's 64.5 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Superpowers leads on reliability.
Can an agent call Graphify and Superpowers without installing anything?
Graphify runs on your own machine, with no hosted endpoint listed. No hosted endpoint is listed for Superpowers.
Are Graphify and Superpowers open source?
Yes. Graphify is open source (Apache-2.0 since 0.9.25 of 22 July 2026. Contributions made before then remain available under MIT, with the original text kept in LICENSE-MIT and referenced from NOTICE). Superpowers is open source (MIT (Copyright (c) 2025 Jesse Vincent)).
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