What problem it solves

Coding agents need structure to be useful: a blank prompt leaves them without a role, a plan, or a review discipline, and generic output is hard to trust. Defects also slip past CI and surface only in a real browser or in production, while reviews, QA and release work stay manual. gstack answers with fixed specialist roles, a sprint-ordered skill sequence, and review and QA steps that operate on running software.

Key features

• A virtual engineering team of named specialists — Skills map to roles — CEO, Eng Manager, Senior Designer, Staff Engineer, QA Lead, Chief Security Officer, Release Engineer — each with a defined job, so the agent works from a role instead of a blank prompt.

  Source: README, review

• A sprint-ordered flow from framing to shipping — Skills run in the order a sprint runs — Think, Plan, Build, Review, Test, Ship, Reflect — and each one feeds the next, so a design doc written early is read by later steps.

  Source: README

• Review and QA against real behavior — The reviewer hunts bugs that pass CI, flags weakened tests and gate integrity, and auto-fixes the obvious ones. The QA lead drives a real browser or exercises APIs, CLIs, jobs and webhooks, reproducing bugs and writing failing regressions before re-verifying the fix.

  Source: README, qa

• Team mode for shared repositories — Team mode bootstraps a repo so teammates get gstack automatically, with no vendored files, no version drift and no manual upgrades. A silent, throttled auto-update check runs at the start of every session.

  Source: README, setup

• Installs across many agent harnesses — Setup can target a single host or every host it detects, with tiers from certified full installs to experimental and instruction-only ones. A status command prints one row per install, and an upgrade command refreshes every registered install.

  Source: README, hosts

Quick start

Copied verbatim from the project's README.

(cd ~/.claude/skills/gstack && ./setup --team) && ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/gstack-team-init required && git add .claude/ CLAUDE.md && git commit -m "require gstack for AI-assisted work"

You:    I want to build a daily briefing app for my calendar.
You:    /office-hours
Claude: [asks about the pain — specific examples, not hypotheticals]

You:    Multiple Google calendars, events with stale info, wrong locations.
        Prep takes forever and the results aren't good enough...

Claude: I'm going to push back on the framing. You said "daily briefing
        app." But what you actually described is a personal chief of
        staff AI.
        [extracts 5 capabilities you didn't realize you were describing]
        [challenges 4 premises — you agree, disagree, or adjust]
        [generates 3 implementation approaches with effort estimates]
        RECOMMENDATION: Ship the narrowest wedge tomorrow, learn from
        real usage. The full vision is a 3-month project — start with
        the daily briefing that actually works.
        [writes design doc → feeds into downstream skills automatically]

You:    /plan-ceo-review
        [reads the design doc, challenges scope, runs 10-section review]

You:    /plan-eng-review
        [ASCII diagrams for data flow, state machines, error paths]
        [test matrix, failure modes, security concerns]

You:    Approve plan. Exit plan mode.
        [writes 2,400 lines across 11 files. ~8 minutes.]

You:    /review
        [AUTO-FIXED] 2 issues. [ASK] Race condition → you approve fix.

You:    /qa https://staging.myapp.com
        [opens real browser, clicks through flows, finds and fixes a bug]

You:    /ship
        Tests: 42 → 51 (+9 new). PR: github.com/you/app/pull/42

Who it may suit

Inference: this may suit founders and technical CEOs who still want to ship, first-time Claude Code users who want structured roles instead of a blank prompt, and tech leads or staff engineers who want rigorous review, QA, and release automation on every PR.

Topics to discuss

• Which specialist roles would you add, remove or merge in a sprint like Think → Plan → Build → Review → Test → Ship → Reflect?

• How should team mode handle version drift and the trade-off between automatic updates and predictable pinned installs?

• What is the right boundary between auto-fixing issues and asking a human, especially around weakened tests and suppressed coverage?

Written by ReadmeX AI from the project's README, source and public GitHub data; it may contain mistakes.

Read the original README https://github.com/garrytan/gstack#readme

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