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pstack-claude vs sno-station-skills
pstack-claude has 3,254 GitHub stars, 301 forks, 1 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. sno-station-skills has 560 stars, 382 forks, 0 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. pstack-claude leads on adoption by 481% (3,254 vs 560 stars). pstack-claude is written in JavaScript under MIT; sno-station-skills is written in Shell under Apache-2.0. pstack-claude has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, sno-station-skills 68%. pstack-claude was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 6 topic tags (agent-skills, agentic-ai, claude-code, claude-code-skills), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| pstack-claude | sno-station-skills | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 3.3K | ★ 560 |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | JavaScript | Shell |
| Last push | 2026-10-21 | 2026-10-20 |
| Forks | ⑂ 301 | ⑂ 382 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick pstack-claude if
- You weight community size — 3.3K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick sno-station-skills if
- You want the sno-station-skills feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Shell
- You evaluated both and sno-station-skills fits your workflow better
About pstack-claude
pstack Lauren Tan's pstack is an opinionated Cursor skill stack that improves agent outcomes. This is a port for Claude Code, Codex, Pi, GitHub Copilot and other agent harnesses. It tracks upstream and also carries named policy forks, each declared in tools/forks.json . Tell poteto mode your goal and it will invoke the correct workflow for the task. It keeps your code concise, simple and verified. For concurrency bugs and invariants that tests cannot reach, see the separate agent formal verify plugin, which adds TLA+ model checking and Lean proofs. Install Claude Code Run in Claude Code: Codex Run in your…
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About sno-station-skills
Sno Station Skills — The working habits of a real team, installed into your AI agents. One AI agent is a brilliant new hire with no colleagues. It reviews its own work, so it misses what it cannot see. It stops dead when its quota runs out, at 3 a.m., halfway through your build. It says "done" when the tests are green and nothing actually happened. It builds three layers of machinery you never asked for. And tomorrow it makes the same mistake it made today, because nobody told it otherwise. Sno Station Skills fixes the team, not the model. These are the skills Sno Station installs into the agents you already…
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Frequently asked questions
Is pstack-claude or sno-station-skills more popular?
pstack-claude has 3,254 GitHub stars and sno-station-skills has 560. pstack-claude has the larger community by that measure.
Are pstack-claude and sno-station-skills free?
Both are open source. pstack-claude is licensed under MIT and sno-station-skills under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between pstack-claude and sno-station-skills?
pstack-claude is written in JavaScript and sno-station-skills in Shell. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, pstack-claude or sno-station-skills?
Choose pstack-claude if you want the larger community (3,254 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose sno-station-skills if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.