Agent skill · software engineering · cursor
setup-pstack
Configure which models pstack uses per role and at what reasoning budget. Detects your available models and writes an always-applied rule that overrides the skill defaults. Use for /setup-pstack, "configure pstack models", "pstack budget", or changing pstack's model choices.
Why this skill is useful
Adds an executable script that configures model choices for pstack, enabling tailored AI behavior per role.
What it needs
Requires cursor installed locally. About 3k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 2,555 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Setup pstack Write ~/.cursor/rules/pstack-models.mdc, an always-applied rule that sets pstack's model per role. Steps 1. Detect available models Enumerate the model slugs you can pass to a Task subagent in this session. That is the dependable source. If Cursor also exposes a models API or CLI that lists the user's entitled models, prefer it for completeness. If you cannot detect any, ask the user to paste the slugs they have access to. Never write a real slug you have not confirmed is available. The aliases inherit-parent and auto are always valid even though they are not detected slugs. 2. Load current state The default role-to-model mapping is the rule shape shown in step 5 below. If ~/.cursor/rules/pstack-models.mdc already exists, read it and treat its # budget line and its role values as the current choices. Otherwise start from those defaults. A line whose role is not in step 5, such as how critics, is from a retired role. Drop it. 3. Budget, map, and confirm (a) Ask for a budget. Prefer AskQuestion over free text. Offer these four options with these exact labels, and name the current budget when the rule records one. With no rule, say that large matches the skill defaults. unlimited — max reasoning large — xhigh reasoning medium — high reasoning small — medium reasoning (b) Apply it. Build the working table from the skill defaults, and on a re-run keep any role you changed by family, list, or alias (inherit-parent, auto). unlimited, large, medium, and small set the effort token of every real slug, panel entries included, to max, xhigh, high, or medium. The effort token is the last token, or the one before a trailing fast, on the ladder max > xhigh > high > medium > low. If the result is not a detected slug, use the same family's detected slug with the highest effort at or below the target, else mark the role as needing a choice. inherit-parent and auto do not change. So unlimited turns claude-opus-5-5-xhigh into claude-opus-5-5-max. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills cursor/setup-pstack