Stack Baseline

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve ORMs and data access
• Tasks that involve Project scaffolding
• Tasks that involve Observability

Example prompts

• “/stack-baseline”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Grep, Glob

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1One framework, one DB, one ORM, one auth lib across all products. Consistency >
2. 2Pin it in .great_cto/PROJECT.md at scaffold time (stack: line) so every later
3. 3Money in integer cents; timestamps tz-aware; IDs are stable (compose with
4. 4Auth, payments, email/SMS, jobs are owned by their specialist (auth-engineer,
5. 5Deviation needs a written reason in ARCH's Components section (e.g. "Clerk over Auth.js

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0658773. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Grep
  • Glob

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Stack Baseline loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 143 tokens; SKILL.md has 341 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~143

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from avelikiy/great_cto at commit 0658773, republished under its MIT licence (© avelikiy). 341 words, ~1,072 tokens.

name

stack-baseline

description

The pinned default technology stack for SMB Product-Builder products. One source of truth so the architect, app-scaffolder, auth-engineer, and senior-dev never re-decide the stack per build — they build ON it. Covers framework, ORM/DB, auth, UI, payments/email/SMS, files, jobs, testing, hosting, and observability, with the chosen default + the one sanctioned alternative for each. Applied whenever a new product is scaffolded or a stack choice would otherwise be improvised. Re-deciding the stack every build is the biggest silent time sink; this kills it.

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Grep, Glob

when_to_use

Apply when: - architect writes the Components / stack section of ARCH-{slug}.md - app-scaffolder stands up a new product skeleton - auth-engineer or…

effort

low

paths

docs/architecture/**, docs/plans/**, .great_cto/**

## Stack (baseline)
framework: Next.js (App Router, TS) · UI: Tailwind + shadcn
db: Postgres (Neon) · orm: Drizzle · auth: Auth.js (→ auth-engineer)
payments: Stripe · email: Resend · sms: Twilio · files: R2 · jobs: Inngest
test: Vitest + Playwright · host: Vercel · obs: Sentry
deviations: <none | reason>

© avelikiy, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/stack-baseline of avelikiy/great_cto.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0658773