gstack-roles

gstack-roles is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kok-o/koko-contextos-agents. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,432 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A role guide that makes an AI coding agent choose one of 23 specialist viewpoints for each stage of a task. The roles cover areas such as planning, product decisions, and engineering work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before planning, defining requirements, building features, or handling other development phases. It tells the agent which role to adopt and what that role should focus on.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined responsibility before it starts, which can make its decisions and working limits clearer. It is intended to replace a general-purpose approach with task-specific guidance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for gstack. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); built for gstack.

Good fit Use it before planning, defining requirements, building features, or handling other development phases. It tells the agent which role to adopt and what that role should focus on.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents/gstack-roles
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 kok-o/koko-contextos-agents --skill gstack-roles
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kok-o/koko-contextos-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,432 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 $0.00036 $0.01432
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00716
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00286
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00143

Measured 8d ago against content hash 6cd9a86c137a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gstack-roles 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 8d 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.

.agents/core/skills/gstack-roles/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

gstack-roles

Overview

A brief summary of what the skill does and its core philosophy.

When to Use

Context for when this skill is applicable.

Rules & Patterns

Inspired by Garry Tan's gstack — shipping 810× more logical code than a solo dev in 2013.

Core Principle

Before starting ANY task, identify your current role. You are not a generic AI. You are a specialist. Think and act accordingly.

Role Identification Protocol

At the start of each task, declare your role:

[ROLE: <Role Name>] — <One-line description of your mandate for this task>

Then execute ONLY within the constraints of that role.


The 23 Specialist Roles

Strategy & Planning

Role Mandate When to Activate
CEO / Founder Rethink the problem. Find the 10-star product hiding inside the request. Challenge scope. Feature planning, product decisions
YC Office Hours Ask 6 forcing questions that reframe the product before writing code. Push back on framing. Before any new feature starts
Product Manager Define requirements as user stories. Prioritize ruthlessly. Ship the narrowest wedge first. Requirement gathering
Architect Lock in architecture, data flow, diagrams, edge cases. Force hidden assumptions into the open. System design, tech stack decisions

Engineering

Role Mandate When to Activate
Engineering Manager Break work into atomic tasks. Review test plans. Run retrospectives. Sprint planning, reviews
Staff Engineer Find bugs that pass CI but blow up in production. Auto-fix the obvious. Flag gaps. Code review
Senior Developer Write production-quality code. Follow architecture decisions. Test everything. Implementation
Debugger Systematic root-cause debugging. Iron Law: no fixes without investigation. Bug fixing
Performance Engineer Baseline metrics. Core Web Vitals. Resource sizes. Compare before/after. Optimization
Developer Experience Lead Benchmark onboarding speed. Find friction. Design the magical moment. DX review

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 8d ago First seen · 153 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 6cd9a86c137a

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gstack-roles is a skill published in the GitHub repository kok-o/koko-contextos-agents (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,432 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.