gstack-installer (retired)

Important

This project is retired and the repo is archived. Install gstack with the gstack plugin instead: /plugin marketplace add smk-labs/claude-plugins then /plugin install gstack@smk.

Two ways to install one thing was one too many. The gstack plugin is a self-contained snapshot that works out of the box; this installer's only advantage was tracking upstream, which is not worth a second repo to maintain. For the real native setup, run Garry Tan's own installer from garrytan/gstack.

Original README

gstack-installer

A one-plugin Claude Code marketplace that bootstraps gstack, Garry Tan's Claude Code setup (70+ slash-command skills: CEO/eng/design review, QA, browser automation, ship/release, security audits).

Why this exists (read first)

gstack is not a Claude Code plugin. It is a skills bundle that installs to ~/.claude/skills/gstack through its own ./setup build script. Three reasons it cannot be loaded by /plugin install directly:

• Its skills live at the repo root (review/, qa/, ship/, ...), not under skills/, which is the only place the plugin loader scans.
• Every skill hardcodes ~/.claude/skills/gstack/bin/... paths that only exist after ./setup runs.
• Its /browse and /qa engine is a compiled binary built by Bun during ./setup. Plugin install runs no build step.

So pointing a marketplace's plugin source at garrytan/gstack would install nothing usable. This marketplace instead ships a single installer plugin: you add the marketplace, install the plugin, and run one skill that performs gstack's real upstream clone + setup. No fork, no vendored copy, always current.

Install

Claude Desktop

1. Settings -> Extensions (Plugins) -> Add marketplace, paste the full GitHub URL (Desktop requires the full address, not the owner/repo shorthand): https://github.com/smk-labs/gstack-installer
2. Find gstack-installer in the marketplace list, click Install.
3. In a chat, run /gstack-installer:install-gstack (or just type "install gstack").
4. Restart Claude Desktop so the gstack skills load.

Claude Code (CLI)

/plugin marketplace add smk-labs/gstack-installer
/plugin install gstack-installer@gstack
/gstack-installer:install-gstack

Then restart Claude Code.

Test it locally before publishing

/plugin marketplace add ~/gstack-installer
/plugin install gstack-installer@gstack

What the installer skill does

1. Checks prerequisites (git, bun; node on Windows).
2. Clones gstack to ~/.claude/skills/gstack and runs ./setup (compiles browse, registers all skills). Updates in place if already installed.
3. Asks before adding the recommended gstack section to CLAUDE.md.
4. Asks before enabling team mode (auto-update for a shared repo, which commits the change).
5. Verifies the build and tells you to restart.

It never edits CLAUDE.md or commits to your repo without explicit confirmation.

Credit

gstack is built by Garry Tan and licensed MIT. This installer is an independent wrapper, also MIT. All gstack functionality, updates, and support come from the upstream repo: https://github.com/garrytan/gstack