perhaps one of the most durable parts of pstack are its engineering principles: very concise skills (~10-20 loc) that distill down good practices into its core.

as models get smarter, i expect most of pstack skills to compress into short principles or workflows (a generic list of steps) and that i will be able to delete a few of them.

how it works is that /poteto-mode contains a short index of available principles and tells agents "In your reply, name each principle that shaped a decision and the specific choice it changed." this is why you'll often see a Principles Named or Used section at the end of the agent's response

many of these principles were extracted from my sessions correcting agents since the start of this year. some are inspired by problems i see people talk about, like Attack the Premise, inspired by @VictorTaelin's post https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/2096273196412498057

you can also use the principles as skills if you want greater control, by invoking /principle-<name>

https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/docs/guide/08-principles.md