Repository
garrytan/gstack agent skills
- skills
- 57
- GitHub stars
- 136k
GitHub description: “Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA”
- Stars
- 135,572 (20,123 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Mar 2026
Install all skills
npx skills add garrytan/gstackAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in garrytan/gstack, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Router for the gstack skill suite. (gstack) | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 2 | Investigates bugs, errors and stack traces in phases and requires a root-cause hypothesis to be confirmed before any fix is written. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 3 | Builds a weekly engineering retrospective from git history: commit counts, per-person contributions, work patterns and code quality numbers over a chosen window. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 4 | Drives a real browser through Aside so the agent can open a page, read it, click through a flow, take screenshots and check console errors. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~8.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 5 | Launches a visible AI-controlled Chromium window with a sidebar extension, so you can watch each agent action in a live activity feed and chat panel. | garrytan/ | 136k | 1 repo | ~4.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 6 | Tests a SwiftUI app on a real iPhone connected by USB, reading the Swift source and then looping through screenshot, analysis and action to find bugs. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~10k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 7 | Sends one prompt to Claude, GPT through the Codex CLI and Gemini, then tabulates response time, token use and cost, with an optional judged quality score. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 8 | Checks each shell command for destructive patterns such as recursive deletes, force pushes and dropped tables, and asks before letting them run. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~931 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 9 | Runs an evidence-first security audit of a codebase through gstack's trusted launcher, with static findings by default and isolated reproduction when enabled. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 10 | Turns an English description or Mermaid source into a diagram set: the source, an editable .excalidraw file and rendered SVG and PNG images. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~4.1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 11 | Locks file edits for the session to one directory by blocking Edit and Write calls anywhere else, useful when debugging or scoping a change. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 12 | Reviews a plan or proposal the way a demanding CEO would, in one of four scope modes, and flags failure modes and gaps without touching any code. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 13 | Runs a YC-style office hours session that pressure-tests a product idea before any code and ends in a design document instead of an implementation. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 14 | 14.Guard Mode Switches on full safety by combining warnings before destructive commands with a block on edits outside one directory you choose, for work on production or live systems. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~919 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 15 | Renders a markdown file into a finished PDF with margins, page numbers, a cover page, running headers, a clickable table of contents and an optional DRAFT watermark. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 16 | Tests a site or service for bugs, fixes what it finds with one atomic commit per fix, and reports fix evidence and a ship-readiness summary at one of three depths. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 17 | Opens a picker where you choose which cookie domains to copy from your real Chromium browser into the headless browse session, so QA can reach logged-in pages. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 18 | Runs the gstack CEO, design, engineering and DX review skills on a plan file in sequence and makes borderline taste decisions automatically using six stated decision principles. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~16k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 19 | Establishes page load, Core Web Vitals and resource-size baselines, then compares before and after on every pull request to track performance trends over time. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~7.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 20 | Calls the OpenAI Codex CLI from your agent in three modes: a pass or fail review of your diff, an adversarial attempt to break it, and open consultation. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 21 | Reloads the most recent saved working state so you can continue a task after a break, a new session or a switch between workspaces. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~10k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 22 | Learns about your product, studies the landscape and writes a DESIGN.md with a full design system covering type, color, layout, spacing and motion. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 23 | Produces several AI-generated design variants for a UI idea, opens a comparison board, collects your structured feedback and iterates from there. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 24 | Tests a product's developer experience live in a browser: follows the docs and getting-started flow, times it, captures errors and produces a scorecard. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~19k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 25 | Writes missing documentation from scratch for a feature, a module or a whole project, organized as tutorial, how-to, reference and explanation pages. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 26 | Scrapes the Hacker News front page and returns the top 30 stories as JSON with rank, title, link, points and comment count. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~355 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 27 | Debugs in four phases (investigate, analyze, hypothesize, implement) under one rule: no fix is made until the root cause is found. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~12k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 28 | Strips the DebugBridge Swift package and its debug-only hooks from an iOS app, including StateServer, DebugOverlay and generated state accessors. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~7.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 29 | Regenerates the iOS debug bridge from the newest gstack templates, refreshing StateServer, DebugOverlay, Package.swift and typed state accessors. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~7.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 30 | Read-only dashboard of the ship queue: which VERSION slots open PRs hold, which sibling workspaces have work about to ship, and the next slot to claim. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~8.2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 31 | Lets another AI agent drive your browser: one command creates a setup key and prints connection instructions for the remote agent. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~10k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 32 | Reviews a plan for a developer-facing product by profiling developer personas, benchmarking rivals and scoring friction, in expansion, polish or triage mode. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~17k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 33 | Shows which questions gstack skills ask you, lets you set per-question preferences and compares your declared style with what your behavior suggests. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 34 | Tests a browser app, API, CLI, job, worker or webhook and writes a structured bug report with repro steps, without changing any code. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 35 | Produces a weekly engineering retrospective from commit history, work patterns and code quality metrics, with trend tracking and per-person breakdowns. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~18k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 36 | Extracts data from a web page through the Aside browser, using your real signed-in sessions, and returns one JSON document without changing anything. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~6.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 37 | 37.Deploy Setup Detects where an app deploys, its production URL and health checks, then saves the deploy configuration in CLAUDE.md for /land-and-deploy. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 38 | 38.gbrain Setup Installs the gbrain CLI, initializes a local PGLite or Supabase brain, registers it over MCP and records a per-remote trust policy for your agent. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 39 | Takes finished code to a pull request: merges the base branch, runs tests, reviews the diff, bumps VERSION, updates the CHANGELOG, commits, pushes and opens the PR. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~20k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 40 | Turns your latest successful /scrape run into a permanent browser skill with a script, a test and a fixture, so repeat scrapes run in about 200 ms. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~11k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 41 | 41.Spec Writer Converts a vague idea into a precise, executable spec in five phases, files it as an issue and can start an agent on it in a fresh worktree. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~14k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 42 | 42.gbrain Sync Re-indexes a repository into gbrain and refreshes the agent search guidance in CLAUDE.md, safe to run again whenever search results look stale. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~15k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 43 | 43.Test Audit Find low-value or duplicate tests and the test-only code they keep alive. (gstack) | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~9.6k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 44 | Clears the edit boundary that /freeze set, so the agent can modify every directory again without ending the session. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~436 | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 45 | Find worthwhile shared-code extractions in recent work. An agent skill from garrytan/gstack. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 46 | Watches a live app after a deploy for console errors, performance regressions and page failures, comparing periodic screenshots against pre-deploy baselines. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~13k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 47 | 47.Context Save Captures git state, decisions made and remaining work so that a later session can resume the task without losing context. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~9.7k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 48 | Audits project docs against what shipped, updating README, ARCHITECTURE, CONTRIBUTING and CLAUDE.md, tidying the changelog and listing documentation debt in the PR. | garrytan/ | 136k | — | ~9.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in garrytan/gstack?
Gstack Skill Router from garrytan/gstack ranks first of the 57 skills in garrytan/gstack listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 136k GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 4k tokens and it has informational notes only in the automated safety check. Next come Root Cause Debugging and Weekly Engineering Retro.
Are the skills in garrytan/gstack official?
None yet. All 57 skills in garrytan/gstack listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How do I install all skills from garrytan/gstack?
Run npx skills add garrytan/gstack in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.