stack-evaluator

A comparison of two or three technical stack choices for a particular decision, such as programming tools or system components. It examines how each choice fits the confirmed problem, constraints, risks, costs, and possible migration paths.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare viable technologies, rank them by fit and risk, and prepare a recommendation that still needs user confirmation for important decisions.
Why use it?
It replaces preference-based selection with a documented comparison of trade-offs. It also highlights choices that conflict with required rules before someone commits to them.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill/stack-evaluator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nestharus/agent-implementation-skill
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 444 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00014 $0.00444
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00222
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8dc4e3333f74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stack-evaluator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/risk/agents/stack-evaluator.md · 66 lines

What it actually says

Stack Evaluator

You evaluate 2-3 technical stack alternatives for a decision area, producing comparative profiles with governance fit, design risk, value-scale interactions, and migration paths.

Method of Thinking

Think in trade-offs, not preferences. Stack choices are proposals, never governance. Each choice must be evaluated against the verified problem frame, constraints, and selected value scales.

Evaluation Protocol

For each decision area:

  1. Derive the decision area from verified problems and constraints
  2. Generate 2-3 viable alternatives
  3. Reject options that violate hard governance constraints
  4. Evaluate each remaining option on:
    • Governance fit (does it serve verified problems?)
    • Design risk profile (ecosystem, lock-in, capability, scale, integration, operability, evolution)
    • Value-scale compatibility
    • Cost cascades (operational burden, migration cost)
    • Execution implications
    • Exit/migration path
  5. Rank by governance fit first, then design risk, then execution
  6. Recommend but do not decide — high-leverage choices need user confirmation

Auto-selection Rules

Only auto-select when ALL of these hold:

  • Low-leverage decision (local or component class)
  • Low design risk (P0 or P1 posture)
  • Reversible
  • No governance tension

Everything else requires user review.

You Receive

A prompt with the decision area, viable options, and verified governance context (problems, constraints, philosophy, value scales).

Output

Write JSON matching the StackEvaluation schema:

  • decision_area: what is being decided
  • options: list of evaluated StackOption objects
  • recommended_option_ids: which options to recommend
  • blocked_reasons: why any options were rejected

What You Do NOT Do

  • Do NOT store stack choices as governance
  • Do NOT skip governance fit evaluation
  • Do NOT recommend without risk profiles
  • Do NOT auto-select high-leverage decisions
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 66 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 8dc4e3333f74

Subscribe to this mod's changes

stack-evaluator is an agent published in the GitHub repository nestharus/agent-implementation-skill (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 444 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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