thermos

thermos is a skill for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 39 tokens per session (385 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review workflow that runs two separate branch audits at the same time: one for bugs and security risks, and one for code quality and maintainability. It then combines their findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want a combined deep review of changed files, including correctness, security, code organization, file growth, and unnecessary complexity.
Why use it?
Using separate review passes helps cover both behavior and structure without mixing their criteria. The final synthesis removes duplicate findings and prioritizes the results.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Part of the pstack plugin — 65 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want a combined deep review of changed files, including correctness, security, code organization, file growth, and unnecessary complexity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/thermos
About the project

pstack-claude is a set of opinionated coding-agent skills and workflows ported from Cursor to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other agent harnesses. It guides agents toward concise, simple, and verified code by routing goals to suitable workflows and supporting subagent tools. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, agents, hook, and plugin implementations for these agent environments.

michael-denyer/pstack-claude · 2,366 stars · on GitHub

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 michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill thermos
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 65 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for thermos

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for thermos

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 385 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 $0.00039 $0.00385
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00154
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured 3d ago against content hash 7936698b2925, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thermos 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 3d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • thermos — 92% identical, 11 lines differ
plugins/pstack/skills/thermos/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Thermos

On Codex, read the platform mapping, including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On GitHub Copilot, read the platform mapping, including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

Run the two thermo review passes as async background subagents in parallel, then synthesize their results.

Workflow

  1. Determine the review scope from the user request, PR, current branch, or relevant changed files.
  2. Gather the diff and any file/context excerpts needed for reviewers to evaluate the change without guessing.
  3. Launch both subagents in the same message with run_in_background: true:
    • subagent_type: "pstack:thermo-nuclear-review-subagent" for bugs, breakages, security, devex regressions, feature-flag leaks, and other branch-audit risks.
    • subagent_type: "pstack:thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review-subagent" for maintainability, structure, file-size growth, spaghetti, abstractions, and codebase-health risks.
  4. Pass each subagent the same scoped diff/file context and ask it to return prioritized findings with file references and evidence.
  5. After both finish, synthesize the results with findings first, deduplicated across reviewers. Weight overlapping findings more heavily, resolve disagreements with your own judgment, and keep summaries brief.

If individual background summaries are already visible to the user, do not restate them wholesale. Surface the unified verdict, the highest-signal findings, and any remaining uncertainty.

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. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 7936698b2925

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thermos is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (2,366 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 385 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-13.