github:stack

github:stack is a skill for Claude Code from bendrucker/claude. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,155 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for publishing and merging stacked pull requests on GitHub. A stacked pull request is a series of smaller changes where each branch builds on the one below it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to view a stack, link branches, publish a chain of pull requests, rebase layers, synchronize the stack, and merge stacked changes.
Why use it?
It helps keep dependent changes organized while branches are rebased, linked, published, and merged. It supports both one-checkout workflows and separate checkouts such as worktrees.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the github plugin — 5 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to view a stack, link branches, publish a chain of pull requests, rebase layers, synchronize the stack, and merge stacked changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bendrucker/claude/stack
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.

Any agent
npx skills add bendrucker/claude --skill stack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install github, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,155 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00070 $0.02155
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00862
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00215

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1dae7d095cfd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github:stack 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 1mo 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.

plugins/github/skills/stack/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Stacked Pull Requests

gh stack (the github/gh-stack extension) drives GitHub's native stacked PRs. The stack object on GitHub is the same either way, and so is the merge. What differs is where the branches live locally, which decides how the stack gets built and published.

Layouts

Native tracking keeps every layer checked out in one working tree. gh stack owns the branches, the rebases, and the publish. This is what the extension is built for, and it gets the interactive PR editor, cascading rebase, and one-command sync.

External tracking keeps each layer somewhere else, typically its own worktree. Another tool owns the rebases and gh stack link publishes the result. link is documented for exactly this and writes no local state.

Pick per stack. The choice can differ across stacks in one repository. Native tracking fits a stack you are actively reshaping, where reordering and folding layers matters more than working two layers at once. External tracking fits a stack whose layers are worked on in parallel or over a long stretch, where each layer wants its own checkout, editor, and running services.

Read the current state with gh stack view --short (add --json to parse it). It answers from local tracking. Output means native tracking, and an error means the stack is not tracked here. That is a statement about this clone, not about GitHub: a stack published by link is real on GitHub and still absent from view.

Don't mix them for one stack. The local-tracking commands silently under-perform against branches they can't check out. gh stack rebase prints ✓ Rebased <branch> and changes nothing when that branch is checked out in a different worktree (gh-stack#35).

Exit code 9 means the repository doesn't have stacked PRs enabled. Code 6 means a branch belongs to more than one stack, or more than one remote is configured with no remote.pushDefault set. link, submit, push, and sync take --remote for that second case.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 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. 1mo ago First seen · 110 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 1dae7d095cfd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github:stack is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,155 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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