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pstack
A 42-skill pi package of principle skills, playbooks, and routed skills that fan work out to subagents.
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pi install git:github.com/hieusats/pstack## TL;DR
A pi package that gives the agent a way of working: 21 principle skills, playbooks for kinds of work, and routed skills that fan out to focused subagents — 42 skills and 3 agents, ported from Lauren Tan's Cursor pstack.
## Key points
- $Depends on two companion packages: pi-subagents owns subagent execution, workflows, and the roles that routed skills launch; @juicesharp/rpiv-todo is the todo tool the playbooks run through, with a numbered-list fallback when it is absent.
- $Install all three: pi install npm:pi-subagents, pi install npm:@juicesharp/rpiv-todo, then pi install git:github.com/hieusats/pstack.
- $Most skills stay out of the system prompt and load when called via /skill:<name>; four load on their own when the work matches: how, why, unslop, and typescript-best-practices.
- $The 21 principle-* skills ground every rule — from principle-fix-root-causes to principle-subtract-before-you-add — and playbooks under skills/poteto/playbooks/ cover Bug fix through Shipping to Autonomous run.
- $Pi packages run with full system access: review the skills before installing, and use pi config to turn any skill off locally.
## FAQ
Q How do I start using it?
Give the poteto skill a task, for example: /skill:poteto Add saved filters to search. Keep the design simple, verify it in the real app, and open a pull request.
Q Where did this skill set come from?
It is an independent fork of Lauren Tan's pstack — the skill set she uses to ship code at Cursor — ported to pi from Peter Mehlitz's ppstack variant and developed on its own.
## References
## Related entries
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Last updated: Sep 2, 2026