gstack AGENTS.md

A set of instructions for AI coding agents working with gstack, a collection of specialist software-development skills. It explains the available skills and how they fit into planning, coding, testing, and releasing software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose skills for product planning, architecture reviews, design checks, implementation, quality assurance, debugging, documentation, release, and deployment.
Why use it?
It gives an agent a shared workflow instead of leaving it to guess which review or development step is needed.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

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 instructions/garrytan/gstack/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/garrytan/gstack

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,962 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,962 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.01962 $0.01962
Opus 5 $0.00981 $0.00981
Sonnet 5 $0.00392 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00196 $0.00196

Measured yesterday against content hash d5f1261f5332, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

gstack AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| `/careful` | Warn before destructive commands (rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force-push). |
AGENTS.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gstack — AI Engineering Workflow

gstack is a collection of SKILL.md files that give AI agents structured roles for software development. Each skill is a specialist: CEO reviewer, eng manager, designer, QA lead, release engineer, debugger, and more.

Available skills

Skills live in .agents/skills/ (or ~/.claude/skills/gstack/ on Claude Code). Invoke them by name (e.g., /office-hours).

Plan-mode reviews

Skill What it does
/office-hours Start here. Reframes your product idea before you write code.
/plan-ceo-review CEO-level review: find the 10-star product in the request.
/plan-eng-review Lock architecture, data flow, edge cases, and tests.
/plan-design-review Rate each design dimension 0-10, explain what a 10 looks like.
/plan-devex-review DX-mode review: TTHW, magical moments, friction points, persona traces.
/plan-tune Self-tune AskUserQuestion sensitivity per question.
/autoplan One command runs CEO → design → DX → eng review (eng always last).
/design-consultation Build a complete design system from scratch.
/spec Turn vague intent into a precise, executable spec in five phases. Files a GitHub issue, optionally spawns a Claude Code agent in a fresh worktree, and lets /ship close the source issue on merge.

Implementation + review

Skill What it does
/review Pre-landing PR review. Finds bugs that pass CI but break in prod.
/codex Second opinion via OpenAI Codex. Review, challenge, or consult modes.
/investigate Systematic root-cause debugging. No fixes without investigation.
/design-review Live-site visual audit + fix loop with atomic commits.
/design-shotgun Generate multiple AI design variants, comparison board, iterate.
/design-html Generate production-quality Pretext-native HTML/CSS.
/devex-review Live developer experience audit (TTHW measured against the real flow).
/qa Open a real browser, find bugs, fix them, re-verify.
/qa-only Same methodology as /qa but report only — no code changes.
/scrape Pull data from a web page. First call prototypes; codified call runs in ~200ms.
/skillify Codify the most recent successful /scrape flow into a permanent browser-skill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 138 lines · 1,962 tokens per session scan C d5f1261f5332

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gstack AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository garrytan/gstack (130,427 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,962 tokens to every session, about $0.0098 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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