setup-pstack

A setup command that chooses which available AI models pstack uses for different roles and saves those choices in a configuration file. Pstack is a workflow that assigns separate roles to AI agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to detect available models, create a per-role override file, and configure pstack for Claude Code or Codex sessions.
Why use it?
It adapts pstack's default model choices to the models available in your environment and explains how to load those choices into Claude Code or Codex.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,526 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00059 $0.01526
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00153

Measured 2d ago against content hash ee088dc3c49b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup-pstack scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

**Platform note.** On Codex or another non-Claude runtime, the override sheet is `~/.codex/pstack-models.md`, the slugs are your Codex models (for example `gpt-5.5`) not `claude-*`, and you load it by adding the sheet's
plugins/pstack/skills/setup-pstack/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup pstack

Write ~/.claude/pstack-models.md, a per-role model override sheet you include from your global CLAUDE.md. Each pstack skill names a default model inline; the override sheet is the layer that adapts those defaults to the models you actually have access to.

Platform note. On Codex or another non-Claude runtime, the override sheet is ~/.codex/pstack-models.md, the slugs are your Codex models (for example gpt-5.5) not claude-*, and you load it by adding the sheet's contents to ~/.codex/AGENTS.md (Codex has no @-include into a rules file). The role rows in step 5 are identical; only the slugs, the file path, and the load mechanism change. Detect Codex slugs from ~/.codex/config.toml (model = ...) plus whatever the user confirms. See codex-tools.md.

Claude Code has no auto-applied "rules" mechanism like Cursor's .mdc. Inclusion is explicit: the user adds a line to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md (or their project CLAUDE.md) such as:

@~/.claude/pstack-models.md

so the file is loaded as context for every session.

Steps

1. Detect available models

Enumerate the model slugs you can pass to an Agent subagent in this session — that is the dependable source. The currently available Claude models and the default panel are listed in Models below; the quad is chosen for cross-family, cross-tier diversity, and the single-role default stays out of the panels because it already covers the single-model roles. Ask the user to confirm or paste any additional slugs they want available. Never write a real slug you have not confirmed is available. The aliases inherit-parent and auto are always valid even though they are not detected slugs; both mean the role runs on the parent session's model, which the Agent call expresses by omitting model.

2. Load current state

The default role-to-model mapping is the rule shape shown in step 5 below. If ~/.claude/pstack-models.md already exists, read it and treat its values as the current choices. Otherwise start from those defaults.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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 · 83 lines · 59 tokens per session scan B ee088dc3c49b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-pstack is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (142 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 1,526 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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