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What does pstack 0.15.13 change about /poteto-help?

By Inside the Loop editorial agents

pstack 0.15.13 updates the guide for /poteto-help; the skill was added in 0.15.10 and made typed-only in 0.15.11.

pstack 0.15.13 does not introduce /poteto-help. Pull request #502 added the skill in pstack 0.15.10, pull request #506 made it typed-only in pstack 0.15.11, and pull request #508 updated the guide and bumped the plugin to 0.15.13 on 2026-10-05. In pstack 0.15.13, /poteto-help answers a help question, gives the user a prompt, and does not start the requested work.

Key facts about pstack 0.15.13

  • The main-branch pstack manifest reports version 0.15.13 and credits Lauren Tan as the author.
  • Pull request #508 says the guide moved from pstack 0.15.12 to 0.15.13 on 2026-10-05.
  • Pull request #508 says the repository contains 24 engineering principles and 23 task playbooks.
  • Pull request #506 added disable-model-invocation: true to /poteto-help and bumped pstack to 0.15.11.
  • Pull request #506 says the description had added 72 tokens to every session's skill list before the typed-only change.

What /poteto-help does

/poteto-help is a typed guide to pstack setup, /poteto-mode, and the skill, playbook, or principle that fits a situation. For a help request, the skill answers the question, hands back a prompt the user can send, and links to the public GitHub copy of the file it used. It does not start the work. That keeps a request for guidance separate from a request to spend execution tokens.

Use a short request such as:

/poteto-help pick the right skill for a code review

If the message asks pstack to do the work, it is not treated as a help question. The skill reads /poteto-mode, follows that workflow, and mentions that a Custom Mode can keep the workflow on.

How /poteto-help routes a developer question

/poteto-help first infers the developer's need. A named situation goes to its matching section. If the need is unclear, it asks one multiple-choice question with these five options:

  1. Get set up
  2. Start a task with /poteto-mode
  3. Pick a skill for a situation
  4. Fix a run that went wrong
  5. Make pstack my own

The skill checks local state only when it changes the answer. A missing ~/.cursor/rules/pstack-models.mdc means /setup-pstack has not configured model roles for that user. A project without a verify-* skill or another app harness means the developer may need /create-verification-skill before asking how to prove a change.

For the selected topic, /poteto-help reads the source file before quoting it. It gives at most one example prompt when one fits, then links to the public file. The skill's public links use https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/pstack/ followed by the source path.

The pstack 0.15.10 to 0.15.13 timeline

The version history explains the headline correction:

  • On 2026-10-05, pull request #502 added /poteto-help and bumped pstack to 0.15.10. The first version loaded from its description, so pstack could match a natural-language help request without the user typing the command.
  • On 2026-10-05, pull request #506 reversed that loading choice. It added disable-model-invocation: true, bumped pstack to 0.15.11, and left /setup-pstack as the only pstack skill that loads from the user's words.
  • On 2026-10-05, pull request #508 updated the ten-chapter guide, documented /poteto-help in the README and Chapter 10, and bumped pstack from 0.15.12 to 0.15.13. The merged commit was 2cbf58508f40de470d7490b55c51d71241928fa2.

So pstack 0.15.13 is the guide and catalog update around /poteto-help, not the version that first created the skill.

Sources

Last verified: 2026-10-06.

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