nodecode-pstack
Poteto's engineering rigor stack: one router, 17 playbooks and 52 skills that tell the agent how to investigate, design, review, verify and ship a change, read one at a time so none of them rides a request until it is wanted. A Nodecode rewrite of Cloeille/pstack by Cloeille.
Get it
Tell the agent "add the pstack cell", or run nodecode add nc://pstack.
Set it up
Nothing to answer: the prose is in the cell's own folder and the cell reads it there. One setting, in the pstack section of the config (/settings, or the file):
| Key | Meaning |
|---|---|
max_chars |
How much of one playbook or skill a call returns (default 24000, minimum 200). A longer file is cut on a line and the answer names the rest. |
Use it
Ask for engineering work, and the agent loads the playbook it needs before it starts:
pstackwith no name answers the catalogue: every playbook with the line it opens with, every skill with its own description.pstack(name="feature")answers that whole file:feature,bug-fix,investigation,perf-issue,refactoring,figure-it-out,autonomous-run,eval,hillclimb,opening-a-pr,shipping,babysit,autopilot-full,autopilot-stack,orchestrate,session-pickup,authoring-a-skill.pstack(name="poteto-mode")is the router: it carries the ladder, the principles, the autonomy rules and which task goes to which playbook. It is the one to read first.pstack(name="how"),pstack(name="architect"),pstack(name="interrogate"),pstack(name="principle-prove-it-works")and the rest of the 52 skills read the same way.pstack(name="reflect/judgment-reviewer")reads a reference file a skill names, by its path underprose/skills/(a skill'sreferences/may be left out of the path).
The operator reads the same two answers from the shell: /pstack for the catalogue, /pstack feature for one file. (help :pstack) is the short version of this section, in the manual.
What is in it
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
cell.lisp |
The cell: the catalogue, the reader, the pstack tool, the /pstack command, the manual topic. |
prose/skills/ |
The original's skills/ folder, unchanged: poteto-mode/ with its 17 playbooks, the 51 other skills with their references/ and scripts/. |
The playbooks are the original's text. Where one says skill_view(name='pstack:X') or names playbooks/Y.md, that is pstack(name="X") and pstack(name="Y") here; where one says delegate_task or cronjob, that is Nodecode's delegation and the cron cell. Every served file says so above it.
License
MIT. The playbooks and skills are Copyright (c) 2026 poteto (adapted by Madeleine): see LICENSE and NOTICE.
