qstack-loop-no-nonsense

A process for carrying out an approved project plan exactly while recording evidence of the work and choosing the amount of independent review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to execute a frozen, approved QStack plan, verify its requirements, and run the required level of adversarial review.
Why use it?
It keeps implementation aligned with the agreed plan and makes review effort an explicit quality and cost decision.

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/hani-q/qstack/qstack-loop-no-nonsense
Any agent
npx skills add hani-q/qstack --skill qstack-loop-no-nonsense
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hani-q/qstack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,245 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 $0.00030 $0.04245
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02122
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00849
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00424

Measured 2d ago against content hash f80711c8425c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qstack-loop-no-nonsense 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.

skills/qstack-loop-no-nonsense/SKILL.md · 391 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/qstack-loop-no-nonsense

Treat the plan as the contract. Execute it completely, but never silently change what it requires.

Resolve the plan

  1. Use the supplied plan path when present.
  2. Otherwise use a plan clearly referenced in the conversation.
  3. Otherwise inspect qstack/compound_engineering/plans/*/plan.html, plus legacy compound-engineering/plans/*/plan.html and plan.md files. Use the only plausible candidate; ask if more than one is plausible or none exists. Never select .template/.

Resolve the repository root, read its instruction files, then read the whole plan. Do not edit the plan: it is frozen once execution begins.

Verify approval before implementation. An explicit request to execute this specific plan counts as approval to start only when the plan itself is not marked draft, proposed, or otherwise unapproved and has no unresolved blocking gate. If approval is absent or contradictory, stop and ask.

Choose the review mode

Review depth is the user's cost and quality choice. Resolve the plan, detect whether it has a board, inspect any existing execution.md, and read plan and repository review requirements without writing anything. Then settle the mode before creating or updating execution files, migrating or claiming a board, launching an agent, or editing implementation files.

--review full|final|none supplies the choice for automation. Reject any other value. Always validate an existing execution.md first, with or without the flag:

  • if Review mode is present, it appears exactly once and must be full, final, or none;
  • no such field means a legacy full run and is not rewritten merely to backfill the field;
  • a duplicated, malformed, or unknown value stops preflight without mutation.

Without the flag, reuse that recorded or legacy mode without asking. With the flag, it must match that mode as described below. For a new execution without the flag, ask one startup question, using the host's structured question tool when available and plain text when it is not. With a board, ask:

Read the full file on GitHub · 391 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 391 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A f80711c8425c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qstack-loop-no-nonsense is a skill published in the GitHub repository hani-q/qstack (7 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 4,245 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 2026-08-31.

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