pstack

pstack for Claude Code

Claude Code port of poteto's pstack plugin. Original by Lauren Tan; ships MIT. Imports seven skills from cursor-team-kit (also MIT): deslop, thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review, make-pr-easy-to-review, fix-ci, fix-merge-conflicts, get-pr-comments, what-did-i-get-done.

if you want to go fast, go deep first. pstack helps you write less, but higher quality code. rigorous agent workflows you can parallelize with confidence.

This is not a verbatim copy. Skill bodies have been edited so every Cursor-specific primitive resolves to its Claude Code equivalent — see Differences from upstream for the full list. The exhaustive per-skill audit lives in CHANGES.md; license attribution lives in NOTICE.md; the upstream README is preserved verbatim at README-UPSTREAM.md.

Install

This repo ships as a Claude Code marketplace containing one plugin (pstack).

/plugin marketplace add michael-denyer/pstack-claude
/plugin install pstack@pstack-claude

Layout

.
├── .claude-plugin/marketplace.json   # marketplace manifest (repo root)
├── plugins/pstack/                   # the plugin itself
│   ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│   ├── skills/                       # 39 skills
│   ├── commands/                     # 20 slash command stubs
│   └── agents/poteto-agent.md
├── LICENSE                           # pstack upstream MIT
├── LICENSE-cursor-team-kit           # cursor-team-kit upstream MIT
├── NOTICE.md                         # attribution table
├── CHANGES.md                        # per-skill substitution audit
└── README.md                         # this file

Plugin-internal path references in the docs below (skills/<name>/, commands/<name>.md) are relative to plugins/pstack/.

Dependencies

Declared in plugin.json and auto-resolved on install:

• plugin-dev (from the claude-plugins-official marketplace) — required. The rewiring routes skill-authoring tasks (in automate-me, reflect, poteto-mode) to the plugin-dev:skill-development skill. If you haven't added the official marketplace yet, /plugin install pstack@pstack-claude will pull it in automatically, provided claude-plugins-official is already added; otherwise:

  /plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-official
  

Not declared as deps, but referenced in skill bodies:

• run, verify, loop — Claude Code CLI built-ins (ship with the binary, always available).
• gh CLI — system-level requirement of the babysit skill. Install via brew install gh and authenticate with gh auth login.

No third-party plugins. The harsher-critique escape hatch lives in the bundled thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review skill (imported from cursor-team-kit), not in an external plugin.

Slash commands

command	use it when
/poteto-mode	default entry point for any non-trivial task
/how	walk through how a subsystem works
/why	investigate why something was built this way (parallel multi-MCP evidence)
/architect	settle types and module shape before writing code that crosses a function boundary
/arena	run N parallel attempts at the same task and pick the best parts
/interrogate	have four different models try to break a diff
/automate-me	draft your own personal -mode skill from recent transcripts
/reflect	capture a long task's lessons as a skill edit
/tdd	fix a bug by writing the failing test first, then the fix
/typescript-best-practices	ground type-system discipline in TypeScript syntax
/figure-it-out	design a rigorous, auditable playbook for a task no bundled playbook fits
/show-me-your-work	log decisions to a reviewable tsv decision trail
/unslop	clean up writing by removing AI tells
/deslop	deslop a diff before commit
/babysit	monitor an open PR, fix CI/comments, keep it merge-ready
/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review	extremely strict maintainability audit
/make-pr-easy-to-review	clean noisy history and improve PR description before review
/fix-ci	find failing PR checks, inspect logs, apply focused fixes
/fix-merge-conflicts	non-interactively resolve merge conflicts, validate, finalize
/get-pr-comments	fetch and summarize review comments from the active PR
/what-did-i-get-done	summarize authored commits over a user-chosen period

Subagent

poteto-agent ships unchanged. Spawn from a parent with subagent_type: "poteto-agent".

Differences from upstream