setup-benny

A setup guide for Benny, an automation pack that triages Slack issue reports and reproduction requests.

In plain words
What is it for?
It prepares Benny in a repository and guides configuration of its Slack, issue tracker, code repository, routing, control, model, and budget settings.
Why use it?
It helps configure the external settings and live automations Benny needs without placing secrets in plugin files or changing automations without explicit approval.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/backnotprop/pstack/setup-benny
Any agent
npx skills add backnotprop/pstack --skill setup-benny
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,943 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 $0.00039 $0.02943
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01471
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00589
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00294

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5a3cbe63360c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-benny 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 2d 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.

automations/benny/skills/setup-benny/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Set up Benny

Benny ships as a dormant automation pack inside pstack. The plugin manifest exposes only pstack's normal skill root; this file and the two operational files are not slash skills.

The human enters setup by pointing Cursor at the pack's FOR_AGENTS.md. The bootstrap flow copies the whole pack into the target repository, then reads this file directly at .cursor/automations/benny/skills/setup-benny/SKILL.md.

Benny needs external configuration and two live Cursor automations.

Do not create or update an automation until the user explicitly asks. Never put a secret value in plugin files, prompts, or committed configuration.

1. Copy the pack and enable shared pstack skills

Do this before asking for Benny configuration and before invoking the built-in /automate skill.

Ask which repository will run the automations. The source pack is the directory containing FOR_AGENTS.md. The destination is <target-repository>/.cursor/automations/benny/.

Merge the entire source pack into the destination:

  1. Create the destination when it is absent.
  2. Copy every source file to the same relative path.
  3. Preserve destination-only files. Never delete unrelated files during install or refresh.
  4. Keep user-owned configuration, feature maps, and routing maps outside the destination. Never overwrite them.
  5. When an existing source-managed file differs, inspect the diff and merge without discarding local edits. If ownership is ambiguous, stop and ask before replacing it.
  6. Verify that the destination contains FOR_AGENTS.md, this setup file, both operational files, their references, and the templates.

If this file is already being read from the target destination, treat the copy as complete and run the same verification before continuing.

Add pstack to the target repository's .cursor/settings.json. If the file or .cursor directory does not exist, create it.

Merge this entry into the existing JSON or JSONC:

{
	"plugins": {
		"pstack": { "enabled": true }
	}
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 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. 2d ago First seen · 267 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 5a3cbe63360c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-benny is a skill published in the GitHub repository backnotprop/pstack (165 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,943 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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