setup-pstack SKILL.md skillA

setup-pstack from backnotprop/pstack is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add backnotprop/pstack/setup-pstack@git:20261028.23ef874

Pins git:20261028.23ef874 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
backnotprop/pstack
Path
skills/setup-pstack/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
12
Latest version
git:20261028.23ef874, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 19, 2026
Size
7,377 bytes
Repository stars
3,337
License
MIT

Configure which models pstack uses per role and at what reasoning budget. Detects your available models and writes an always-applied rule that overrides the skill defaults. Use for /setup-pstack, "configure pstack models", "pstack budget", or changing pstack's model choices.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Setup pstack

Write pstack's model settings, one model per role:

- **Cursor:** `~/.cursor/rules/pstack-models.mdc`, an always-applied rule.
- **Claude Code:** `~/.claude/rules/pstack-models.md`. Claude Code loads every file in `~/.claude/rules/` into each new session.
- **Every other harness** (Codex, Pi, OpenCode, and others): `~/.agents/pstack-models.md`. These harnesses don't load it on their own, so pstack skills read this file when they pick a model.

"The settings file" below means the file for your harness. In Claude Code, if that file is missing, read `~/.agents/pstack-models.md` instead, where older versions of this skill wrote it.

## Steps

### 1. Detect available models

Enumerate the model slugs you can pass to a subagent in this session (Cursor `Task`, Claude Code `Agent`, OpenCode `task`, Codex `spawn_agent`). That is the dependable source. If your harness also has a command that lists the user's models, prefer it for completeness (for example `opencode models` or `pi --list-models`). If you cannot detect any, ask the user to paste the slugs they have access to. Never write a real slug you have not confirmed is available. The aliases `inherit-parent` and `auto`…
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add backnotprop/pstack/setup-pstack@sha256:dc00eb38d9451182

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.23ef874, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 6 days.

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7377 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
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Source

GitHub

backnotprop/pstack · 3,337 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_s3wncdjp6a3tkw32
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=backnotprop/pstack/setup-pstack
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/dc00eb38d9451182982a296e845dc673ff453803327cb33a2815c5d7ccc74a6c

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