ez-stack: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ez-stack CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from rohoswagger/ez-stack. It costs 5,336 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for ez-stack, a tool that helps manage stacked GitHub pull requests, where one change depends on another. They describe the product purpose, design rules, architecture, and guidance for coding agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when developing ez-stack, making design decisions, or updating the project after important changes or new releases.
Why use it?
They give people and coding agents one shared source of truth for how the project should work. This reduces guesswork and keeps changes aligned with its approach to branches and pull requests.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

This is rohoswagger/ez-stack's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on ez-stack itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything ez-stack configures →

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to rohoswagger/ez-stack. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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CLAUDE.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ez-stack — Project CLAUDE.md

This is a living document. Update it whenever the product mission evolves, a significant design decision is made, a pattern is established, or a new version ships. It is the source of truth for anyone (human or AI) working on this codebase.


Product Mission

ez-stack makes stacked PRs on GitHub effortless, primarily for AI coding agents.

Agents are the primary audience. Humans benefit too, but when there's a design tradeoff, optimize for agents. Every command should be simpler, more intuitive, and more efficient than the raw git/gh equivalent — the goal is to make version control easier for agents, not to expose git's complexity through a different interface.

Every feature should be inherently more useful than the git commands it replaces.


Core Design Principles

  1. Shell out, don't reimplement. ez orchestrates git and gh. It doesn't reimplement git logic. When in doubt, run the real command.

  2. Auto-restack on every mutation. Any command that moves a branch tip (commit, amend, move) automatically restacks children. Users should never have to think about rebasing.

  3. State is append-only metadata. Stack state lives in .git/ez/stack.json — just branch names, parents, parent SHAs, and PR numbers. It is never the source of truth for git state; git is.

  4. Fail loudly with hints. Every error message tells the user what went wrong AND what to do next. No silent failures.

  5. Human output on stderr, machine output on stdout. Colored tree output and spinners go to stderr. JSON output (--json), URLs (ez pr-link), and anything meant to be piped goes to stdout.

  6. Structured exit codes. Agents branch on failure type. Exit codes are documented and stable:

    • 0 = success
    • 1 = unexpected error
    • 2 = GitHub API / gh CLI error
    • 3 = restack blocked — rebase conflict, or one or more branches skipped during a sync/restack (manual resolution required)
    • 4 = stale remote ref
    • 5 = usage error (on trunk, branch not tracked, etc.)
    • 6 = unstaged changes

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ez-stack CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository rohoswagger/ez-stack (23 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,336 tokens to every session, about $0.0213 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.

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