pick-tech-stack

pick-tech-stack is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Espenandreass1/agentslice. It costs 20 tokens per session (212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision guide for choosing a project's basic software tools and services when no technology stack has been approved. It recommends one practical setup and records it only after a person approves it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a new SaaS, website, data API, or AI web app. It helps choose the main programming framework, database, hosting, and related services.
Why use it?
It avoids indecision and prevents teams from adding unnecessary tools before the direction is agreed. It also keeps the project's working context focused.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it at the start of a new SaaS, website, data API, or AI web app. It helps choose the main programming framework, database, hosting, and related services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/espenandreass1/agentslice/pick-tech-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 Espenandreass1/agentslice --skill pick-tech-stack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Espenandreass1/agentslice

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 212 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 $0.00020 $0.00212
Opus 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00085
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00021

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0b93d9815329, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pick-tech-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.

kit/.agents/skills/pick-tech-stack/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Pick Tech Stack

Read

Verify the canonical workspace and minimal preflight. Add planning context and inspect project manifests only as needed.

Guardrails

  • Do not install dependencies, create application code, or create CI files.
  • Recommend one default, not a long menu; record it only after human approval.
  • Consider the policy's sensitive areas and preserve active decisions only.

Defaults

  • Simple SaaS/dashboard: Next.js + TypeScript + managed Postgres/Auth + Vercel.
  • Static content: Astro or static Next.js + Vercel.
  • Python/data API: FastAPI + Postgres + managed hosting.
  • AI web app: Next.js + TypeScript + Postgres + selected provider SDK; add queues only when proven.

Output

Give recommendation, short trade-off, and approval needed. Update tech stack and active context after approval; no checkpoint unless a controlled handoff needs one.

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 Changed · -3 lines · -9 tokens per session 0b93d9815329
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A b1798a9429e9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pick-tech-stack is a skill published in the GitHub repository Espenandreass1/agentslice (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 212 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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