gstack
Route a task to the right gstack skill (garrytan/gstack) — plan/spec/ship/review, design consultation + review, QA, iOS live-device workflows, security audit, docs, browser automation. Use when the user says "gstack", names a gstack command (/plan, /ship, /review, /spec, /qa, /cso, …), or asks which gstack skill fits a task.
Install
npx skillscat add lightheart-ventures/aish/gstack Install via the SkillsCat registry.
gstack router
gstack is Garry Tan's agent-skill suite:
54 skills that encode a full product loop — spec → plan → review → ship →
QA → docs → retro. This plugin makes them first-class in aish:
:skill search <query>fans out to the gstack catalog (offline, instant).:skill add gstack:<name>pulls that skill'sSKILL.mdfrom GitHub into~/.aish/skills/— from then on it is a normal installed aish skill.:skill add gstack:*installs the whole suite.
How to use this skill
- Identify the phase the user is in (see the map below).
- Check whether the skill is installed —
list_dir ~/.aish/skills. If it is,read_fileitsSKILL.mdand follow it; that is what "using a skill" means. - If it is not installed, tell the user the exact command:
:skill add gstack:<name>— do not hand-roll a lesser version of it. - gstack SKILL.md files assume Claude Code conventions (
/slashcommands,AskUserQuestion,Bash). In aish, translate: slash command → read the
SKILL.md and execute its steps;Bash→run_program;Read/Write→read_file/write_file;AskUserQuestion→ just ask in your reply.
Intent → skill map
| You want to… | gstack skill |
|---|---|
| Turn vague intent into an executable spec | spec |
| Review a plan as CEO / eng manager / designer / DX | plan-ceo-review, plan-eng-review, plan-design-review, plan-devex-review |
| Run every plan review back-to-back, auto-decided | autoplan |
| Review a PR before landing | review |
| Merge base, test, bump, changelog, push, open PR | ship |
| Land + deploy, then watch a canary | land-and-deploy, canary |
| Systematic debugging with root-cause discipline | investigate |
| Code-quality dashboard / perf regressions | health, benchmark |
| QA a web app (fix vs report-only) | qa, qa-only |
| Design system, HTML, visual QA, variants | design-consultation, design-html, design-review, design-shotgun |
| iOS live-device QA / autonomous fixes | ios-qa, ios-fix, ios-design-review, ios-sync, ios-clean |
| Security audit | cso |
| Generate or refresh docs after shipping | document-generate, document-release |
| Browser automation / scraping with real sessions | browse, scrape, skillify, setup-browser-cookies |
| Diagrams, PDFs | diagram, make-pdf |
| Guardrails on destructive commands / edit scope | careful, freeze, unfreeze, guard |
| Weekly retro, YC-style office hours | retro, office-hours |
| Save / restore working context | context-save, context-restore |
Full, always-current list: :skill search gstack (or readplugins/gstack/catalog.json).
aish-native equivalents (prefer these when they exist)
Some gstack skills overlap aish's own bundled skills. Prefer the aish one when
the task is aish-internal, and gstack's when the user explicitly asks for gstack:
| gstack | aish equivalent |
|---|---|
review |
pr-reviewer, code-review-checklist |
cso |
security-audit |
health |
test-coverage, dependency-audit |
investigate |
incident-responder, ci-debugger |
retro |
sprint-status, sprint-snapshot |
Caveats
- gstack skills may shell out to gstack-specific tooling (
gbrain, the GStack
Browser, Aside, DebugBridge). Those steps need the upstream install —
see https://github.com/garrytan/gstack. The reasoning steps work standalone. - Imports are pinned by
AISH_GSTACK_REF(defaultmain). Set it to a tag for
reproducible installs. - gstack skills are licensed by their upstream repo, not by aish.
Categories
Install
npx skillscat add lightheart-ventures/aish/gstack Install via the SkillsCat registry.