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80 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By chmonitor/chmonitor (GitHub) · data · 304 stars · scanned at commit 0414013

Use for "how does X work", code walkthroughs before changing something, and placement / ownership / layering questions ("where should this live", "which package owns this", "is this the right layer"). Explains subsystem architecture, runtime flow, onboarding mental models. Use why for motivation.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'how' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'how' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named how already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/chmonitor/chmonitor' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '04140135acfbd2adb525c7173459b584f9f3bb86' -- '.claude/skills/pstack/upstream/skills/how' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.claude/skills/pstack/upstream/skills/how' ~/.agents/skills/'how' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'how' ~/.claude/skills/'how' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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