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gstack: Garry Tan's Claude Code toolkit

Twenty-three opinionated skills that cover planning, design, review, QA and shipping — the same setup Garry Tan uses with Claude Code.

In short: Twenty-three opinionated skills that cover planning, design, review, QA and shipping — the same setup Garry Tan uses with Claude Code. It is a free skill for people who use Claude Code or Codex and want help with coding agent skills.

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Agent / toolAccess / costLink
Claude CodePaid Claude plan or APIclaude.com/claude-code
CodexChatGPT plan or APIopenai.com/codex
GitHub repoOpen source · ★ 136.6kgarrytan/gstack
gstack: Garry Tan's Claude Code toolkit

Image: from the GitHub README, shown with credit.

Image from the garrytan/gstack README

Images from the project README on GitHub.

Try it in 60 seconds

git clone --single-branch --depth 1 https://github.com/garrytan/gstack.git ~/gstack

Install command copied from the project README. Check the README for the latest version.

What it does

Twenty-three opinionated skills that cover planning, design, review, QA and shipping — the same setup Garry Tan uses with Claude Code.

When I heard Karpathy say this, I wanted to find out how. How does one person ship like a team of twenty? Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw — 247K GitHub stars — essentially solo with AI agents. The revolution is here. A…

Short excerpt from the README of garrytan/gstack. Read the full README on GitHub.

Inside the repo

Quick startInstall — about 30 secondsStep 1: Install on your machineStep 2: Team mode — auto-update for shared repos (OpenClawNative OpenClaw Skills (via ClawHub)Other AI AgentsSee it workThe sprintQA without a webpageWhich review should I use?Power tools

Step by step

  1. Open the GitHub repo and read the README.
  2. Run the install command below in your terminal (or copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/ for Claude Code, ~/.codex/skills/ for Codex).
  3. Restart your agent so it picks up the skill.
  4. Ask your agent to use it on a small test task first.

Watch out for

Needs a local install (clone + setup). Read the setup docs before piping anything into your shell.

Docs, demos & materials

Sources & credit

All credit to the original authors. We rewrite in our own words and link back. Something wrong? Report it.

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