# Graphify vs Superpowers

> Graphify scores 68.9 (B) to Superpowers's 64.5 (B) for git operations. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Graphify: grade B, 68.9/100, rank #227 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/graphify.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphify.json
- Superpowers: grade B, 64.5/100, rank #408 of 1239. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/superpowers.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/superpowers.json
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## Which one, for what

### Graphify (B)

Good 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

### Superpowers (B)

Good 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 | Graphify | Superpowers | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 58 | 68 | Superpowers +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 71 | Graphify +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 71 | Graphify +6 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 66 | 58 | Graphify +8 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 83 | Superpowers +2 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 81 | 68 | Graphify +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -1 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **68.9 · B** | **64.5 · B** | |

## 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

1. Install `graphifyy` with two y's; other `graphify*` packages on PyPI are not the project's
2. Set `GRAPHIFY_BACKEND=none` or use `--code-only` when no source or doc text may leave the machine
3. Pass an absolute path to graph.json in the MCP config, and run `graph_stats` first to check the graph loaded
4. Set `GRAPHIFY_API_KEY` before binding the HTTP server to 0.0.0.0; it only warns when no key is set
5. Run 0.9.70 or later before indexing an untrusted repository, because earlier versions carry the Fortran file-read advisory

### Superpowers

1. Install it once per coding agent; each harness has its own install command, and the README says a second harness needs a second install.
2. 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.
3. Name a model on every subagent dispatch, as the skill asks; an unnamed subagent inherits the session's most expensive model.
4. Set SUPERPOWERS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 before using the visual companion if no request may leave the machine.
5. Keep `.superpowers/sdd/` out of `git 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)).


## For agents

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- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/graphify.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/superpowers.json

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