qstack-ste

qstack-ste is a skill for Codex from hani-q/qstack. It costs 168 tokens per session (1,170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A rewriting rule for converting the previous assistant answer into Simplified Technical English, a controlled style for clear technical instructions. It keeps the original facts, audience, and approximate length.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite a previous answer at a chosen strictness level, with stricter levels applying more sentence and word rules.
Why use it?
It reduces unclear wording and inconsistent instructions without changing the answer's meaning or scope.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to rewrite a previous answer at a chosen strictness level, with stricter levels applying more sentence and word rules.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hani-q/qstack/qstack-ste
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 hani-q/qstack --skill qstack-ste
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hani-q/qstack

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 168 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,170 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 $0.00168 $0.01170
Opus 5.5 $0.00067 $0.00468
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00034 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00117

Measured 26d ago against content hash 34a0a95f8fc4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qstack-ste 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 26d 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-ste/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/qstack-ste

Rewrite the immediately previous assistant answer in Simplified Technical English. Keep every fact, decision, warning, and next action. Keep the same reader and roughly the same length. Output only the rewrite.

This skill changes wording only. /qstack-be-concise changes length, /qstack-explain-for changes the reader, /qstack-unslop removes AI writing patterns. Chain them when more than one is wanted.

Read the level

The argument is a whole number from 1 to 100. It snaps to a tier. No argument means 80.

Argument Tier What it applies
1 to 60 light The core rules below
61 to 90 standard Core rules plus the sentence rules: 20 words for an instruction, 25 for a description, one instruction per sentence, present tense for descriptions, no -ing verb forms
91 to 100 full Standard plus the word rules: only words from the STE dictionary and technical names, one approved meaning per word, no synonyms for the same thing

The full rule lists for each tier are in references/rules.md. Read that file before the first rewrite in a session.

Core rules, every tier

  1. The first sentence is the answer: yes or no, done or not done, ready or not ready, or the number asked for. The reason comes after it.
  2. Active voice, and the actor is named: "I pushed it", "You merge it", not "It remains unmerged".
  3. One name per thing, and the user's name for it when they gave one. Card numbers, spec sections, commit hashes, and symbol names are left out unless the reader needs them to act. A needed one is explained in plain words the first time.
  4. A noun cluster has at most three words: "the check that rejects rc versions", not "the root version validator".
  5. Something the reader must do is a command, one per sentence, condition first: "If the review scores 5/5, merge PR 144." If nothing is needed from the reader, one line says so.
  6. One topic per paragraph, at most six sentences per paragraph. Status from other work is not appended to an answer.
  7. List numbers stay as they were in the previous answer. A dropped item is marked dropped, not renumbered.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 26d ago First seen · 92 lines · 168 tokens per session scan A 34a0a95f8fc4

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qstack-ste is a skill published in the GitHub repository hani-q/qstack (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 168 tokens to every session and 1,170 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-10-03.

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