How I combined the best of @poteto's pstack and @kunchenguid's Firstmate into a single runtime.
Instead of letting their routers fight as separate authorities, I kept Firstmate as the outer loop for fleet orchestration and injected pstack's engineering discipline directly into the workers runtime.
>Firstmate is a fleet commander (horizontal scale across Git worktrees).
>pstack is an elite micro-manager (strict engineering habits and verification).
Here is how I merged them into an optimized hybrid runtime:
* Conditional Briefs: Worker prompts load plays just-in-time. Zero bloated prompt dumps.
* Required-Read Habits: Smallest logical change, subtract code before adding, and analyze blast radius.
* Context Discipline: Only map how the system is built when the change crosses into another part of it. If you skip that, write one line saying why.
* Verification: "Done" requires real artifact proof (running live shell commands or generating local app verifiers).
* Scaffold Isolation: Worktree checks prevent role hijack across ship, scout, and supervisor agents.
I stripped out the Cursor UI dependencies for my local machine's CLI stack and skipped the expensive multi-frontier review loops.
Firstmate handles the fleet isolation. The injected runtime handles the code discipline. The goal is lean, fast and deterministic.
Just wired this up today, so I will be seeing how this works on my projects.
html artifact- https://share.onorca.dev/a/TmnEMowB96Qf
Repo links:
pstack: http://github.com/cursor/plugins/pstack
Firstmate: http://github.com/kunchenguid/firstmate