poteto-help

poteto-help is a skill for Claude Code from ericlitman/open-pstack. It costs 40 tokens per session (3,850 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A help guide for pstack, a system for choosing and running skills, playbooks, and principles for a task. It explains setup, operating modes, and how to route questions to the right guide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure pstack, choose a suitable skill or guide, understand its operating mode, and prepare a prompt for a task.
Why use it?
It prevents a help question from accidentally starting a costly task and helps users find the instructions that answer their question.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the pstack plugin — 61 skills, 22 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to configure pstack, choose a suitable skill or guide, understand its operating mode, and prepare a prompt for a task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericlitman/open-pstack/poteto-help
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 ericlitman/open-pstack --skill poteto-help
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericlitman/open-pstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 61 skills, 22 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for poteto-help

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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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,850 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.
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 $0.00040 $0.03850
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.01540
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00770
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00385

Measured yesterday against content hash 5050d650d0bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

poteto-help 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 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.

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/pstack/skills/poteto-help/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Poteto help

Answer the user's question about pstack, hand them a prompt they can send, and link the file the answer came from. For a help question, don't start the work. The user asked how, and a pstack run spends real tokens, so let them send the prompt.

A message that asks for work, such as "use pstack to fix this bug", is not a help question. Read poteto-mode, do the work under it, and mention once that starting each task with /poteto-mode keeps it on.

This file maps questions to the skills and guide pages that hold the answers. Those files own the details. Read the file you route to before you quote it, and trust it when it disagrees with this map. The skill links here point into the installed plugin, which the user may not be able to open, so give the user the file's public copy: https://github.com/ericlitman/open-pstack/blob/main/plugins/pstack/ followed by its path. The guide pages are Lauren's upstream guide. They show Cursor's interface, so translate any Cursor step with this file before you pass it on.

Find out what they need

Infer the need from the message and the conversation. A named situation, such as "which skill reviews a PR?", goes straight to its section. If the need is still unclear, ask one multiple-choice question with these options, then answer only the section they pick:

  • Get set up
  • Start a task with /poteto-mode
  • Pick a skill for a situation
  • Fix a run that went wrong
  • Make pstack my own

Check the state that changes the answer, and mention it only when it does:

  • No pstack-models.md in the active harness's config home means /setup-pstack hasn't run for this user, so every role uses its default model. Resolve the config home per codex-tools.md.
  • No verify-* skill or other app harness in the project means agents have no scripted way to drive the app. Mention /create-verification-skill when the question is about proving a change works.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 Changed · +2 lines 5050d650d0bb
  2. 6d ago First seen · 154 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A e1a759b2c769

Subscribe to this mod's changes

poteto-help is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlitman/open-pstack (427 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 3,850 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-12.

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