overdrive

Overdrive

Overdrive is a complete, plug-and-play system for upgrading AI coding agents with specialist skills, smarter routing, local project memory, and safer install/update behavior.

It works across Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, Cursor, and shared .agents roots. The current manifest contains 137 unique skills for web/app development, frontend polish, animation, SEO, product work, research, launch prep, security review, browser validation, prompt improvement, codebase intelligence, and local workflow state.

Overdrive is not just another skill pack. It is the operating layer around the skills:

• Managed skills teach agents how to handle specific kinds of work.
• skill-router chooses the right skills for the current request instead of loading the whole catalog.
• ovd-workflow stores small local project state in .overdrive/ so agents can remember active work, decisions, constraints, preferences, routes, and handoffs.
• Global instructions make agents plan when needed, stay objective, keep diffs small, use Context7 for current docs, watch context budget, and verify work.
• Installer safety keeps sources pinned, avoids destructive overwrites by default, supports dry-runs, and uninstalls only managed files.

The goal is practical: better agent output with less repeated prompting, without turning every session into a giant context dump.

I built this as my own daily AI coding-agent setup and am releasing it free for the community. If you build something with it, tag me on X @editor_stefan, send feedback on Reddit at u/StefanDumitru, or open an issue/PR. If you want to buy me a coffee, you can do so here :)

Quick Start

Preview first. This prints the install plan without changing files:

npx -y github:radustefandumitru/overdrive -- --dry-run

Install globally:

npx -y github:radustefandumitru/overdrive

Or install from a clone:

git clone https://github.com/radustefandumitru/overdrive.git
cd overdrive
./install.sh --dry-run
./install.sh

Restart or reload your coding agent after install so it re-indexes the skill folders.

The npm package name is overdrive-cli. The CLI exposes these commands:

overdrive --help
ovd --help
overdrive-cli --help
agentic-supercharge --help   # legacy compatibility alias

What Changes After Install

You keep prompting normally. For non-trivial work, the global instructions ask the agent to do a lightweight router check. The router can then load the smallest useful skill sequence.

You ask	The router might use
"Review this for security holes before I deploy."	security-review
"Make this drawer feel smooth and natural."	fluid-animations + emil-animation-polish
"Find and fix problems in my React app."	react-doctor
"Make this prompt sharper before I send it to another AI."	prompt-master
"Make this paragraph sound less AI-written but keep the facts."	humanizer
"Extract the design language from this public website."	design-extract
"Watch this screen recording and tell me where the UI breaks."	claude-video
"Virtualize 100k variable-height text rows without layout thrash."	pretext
"SEO-audit my site before launch."	jack-seo-launch-audit
"Design a premium landing page and verify it in-browser."	design-taste-frontend + impeccable + playwright-cli

You can also name a skill directly:

Use prompt-master to tighten this launch prompt before I send it.
Use graphify to map how this codebase fits together before editing.
Use liquid-glass-web for this navigation component.

Explicit user-named skills win for that part of the task.

System Overview

Overdrive has four main runtime layers:

Layer	What it does
Managed skills	Installs curated SKILL.md folders into selected agent roots. Each managed skill has an .overdrive.json marker.
Skill router	Reads the task and picks relevant skills in a stable, deterministic ordering. Complex work can use more than three skills when justified, preferably in phases.
ovd-workflow	Creates local .overdrive/ project state for project memory, checkpoints, route traces, preferences, research notes, file hashes, usage summaries, and knowledge-vault indexing.
Global guide	Adds managed instruction blocks that keep agents cautious, objective, surgical, docs-aware, and verification-oriented.

Skills answer how should the agent do this kind of task?

skill-router answers which specialist guidance is relevant now?

ovd-workflow answers what is already happening in this project?

Skill Library