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gstack

Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 15 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA

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The Lens

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Oct 2026

gstack is Garry Tan's Claude Code setup, open sourced by the Y Combinator CEO: 23 specialist slash commands that act like a virtual team (a CEO who rethinks the product, an eng manager who locks architecture, a designer, a reviewer, a QA lead who opens a real browser, a security officer and a release engineer), plus power tools like /office-hours, /review and /ship. All Markdown, MIT licensed.

It's built for Claude Code, with experimental ports to Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Factory, Kiro and Copilot CLI where its safety hooks are advisory rather than enforced. Install clones it into ~/.claude/skills/gstack and runs a setup script that needs Bun, and it keeps state in ~/.gstack too. Browser QA drives the Aside browser on macOS and falls back to its own Chromium.

Solo founders and small teams who want an opinionated, ready-made workflow get the most here, free. Larger teams with their own conventions will mostly mine it for ideas. Telemetry stays off unless you opt in.

The catch: it moves fast with no tagged releases, so your setup changes under you every time you pull. The optional GBrain setup can ask for a Supabase access token to create a project for you, so read what you're granting. And it's one person's taste, opinionated by design.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

fully free

Free: Everything. MIT licensed, no hosted version, no paid tier.

Self-hosted: Clones into ~/.claude/skills/gstack. Requires Claude Code, Git and Bun v1.0+ (plus Node.js on Windows). Keeps global state in ~/.gstack. Browser QA uses the Aside browser on macOS 15+ when present, otherwise a bundled Chromium.

Paid: None. Costs are your Claude Code usage, plus optional third parties: a Codex CLI login for cross-model outside reviews, and Supabase if you set up GBrain.

Completely free under MIT. You pay for the Claude Code usage it drives.

What to do by team size

Solo
free
Small team
free; agree on which commands the team uses
Medium team
free; fork and pin rather than pulling daily
Large team
free to mine for ideas; most will adapt it to house conventions
Self-hosting ops:trivial

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