setup-pstack

A setup guide for choosing which provider-specific models and effort levels pstack uses for different roles. It applies to pstack, a model-routing setup used by Claude Code or Codex.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when configuring pstack models or changing the models used by Claude, Codex, or Grok routes.
Why use it?
It replaces scattered or conflicting model settings with one checked configuration that matches the current parent tool.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,589 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 $0.00065 $0.02589
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01295
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00518
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00259

Measured 2d ago against content hash 30530b2198a5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-pstack 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.

plugins/pstack/skills/setup-pstack/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup pstack

Configure one portable model sheet for the current parent harness. Read provider-dispatch.md before probing or writing anything. Its model matrix, descriptor grammar, and route table are the contract. Choose one requested effort per matrix family. Do not add a second configuration file, a runtime resolver, or a weaker-model fallback.

Claude Code writes ~/.claude/pstack-models.md and loads it from ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md with:

@~/.claude/pstack-models.md

Codex writes ~/.codex/pstack-models.md. Codex has no @ include, so mirror the sheet's exact bytes inside one bounded block in ~/.codex/AGENTS.md and retain the sheet as the editable source of truth:

<!-- pstack:models:begin -->
<exact contents of ~/.codex/pstack-models.md>
<!-- pstack:models:end -->

Steps

1. Establish the parent

Use the harness and tool surface running this skill: Claude Code or Codex. Environment markers may corroborate that top-level answer, but do not launch a child and ask it to detect where it came from. Record the parent because the same descriptor takes a different route in each harness.

2. Load current state

Read the current parent-specific sheet when it exists. Treat its values as current role-to-family assignments. Overlay its rows on the complete first-run role map in step 7. Materialize any missing documented role row from that map on the next successful write. A duplicate or unknown role row is inconsistent state; report it and resolve it before probing. A bare host-native slug from an older sheet is also invalid because it does not say which provider owns it. If the sheet is missing, use the complete first-run role map and the model matrix's Default effort cells.

3. Parse per-family efforts

Read the model matrix. Every non-alias value must match <provider>:<model>@<effort>. Map it to exactly one matrix family by (provider, model), require its effort to appear in that row's Selectable efforts cell, and collect the effort. inherit-parent and auto rows carry no family effort.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 30530b2198a5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-pstack is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlitman/open-pstack (155 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 2,589 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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