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pstack for Claude Code

A Claude Code port of pstack 0.15.25, the agent engineering skills poteto built for Cursor. This repo tracks upstream and rewrites the Cursor-only parts. Upstream's own README, with the tour of every skill and playbook, is UPSTREAM-README.md. Its install and model sections describe Cursor.

Install

As a plugin, inside Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add alexhatzo/pstack-4-claude
/plugin install pstack@pstack-4-claude

To update, open /plugin, go to Marketplaces, pick pstack-4-claude and choose Update marketplace. Turning on auto-update for it there keeps it current.

Or as a plain clone, which Claude Code loads in place as the pstack@skills-dir plugin:

git clone https://github.com/alexhatzo/pstack-4-claude ~/.claude/skills/pstack

The ported branch is rebuilt on every upstream sync, so update a clone with a reset, not a pull:

git -C ~/.claude/skills/pstack fetch origin && git -C ~/.claude/skills/pstack reset --hard origin/ported

Use one install, not both: they register the same pstack:<name> skills.

Start

Start a new Claude Code session. Every skill is namespaced pstack:<name>. Run /pstack:setup-pstack to pick models, then start any task that needs rigor with /pstack:poteto-mode. /pstack:poteto-help answers questions about the rest.

What the port changes

  • Subagents use the Agent tool. Read-only spawns use subagent_type: Explore, and spawns that write or need MCP tools use general-purpose.
  • Cursor model slugs become opus for judgment, prose, and the hardest work, and sonnet for fast code. Reasoning levels and the /setup-pstack budget become the Agent tool's effort parameter.
  • ~/.cursor paths become ~/.claude. The model rule lives at ~/.claude/rules/pstack-models.md, and transcripts live under ~/.claude/projects/.
  • cursor-team-kit skills map to Claude Code. /deslop becomes /simplify, and control-ui and control-cli become the Browser pane tools, the run skill, and the iOS Simulator tool.
  • Cloud agents become local subagents in their own worktrees, Bugbot becomes CodeRabbit, and create-skill becomes skill-creator.
  • docs/ and automations/ are verbatim upstream and still describe Cursor.

How it stays in sync

The upstream branch holds verbatim snapshots of cursor/plugins. ported is upstream plus one commit made by port-from-cursor.py. sync-upstream.sh repeats both when upstream moves.

License

MIT, same as upstream. pstack is by Lauren Tan (poteto). See LICENSE.