Install
Three steps: install the stack, configure your repo, hire the team.
1. Install the stack
Section titled “1. Install the stack”npx skills add <cpo-stack repo>This installs the CPO skills — the layer that runs the loop. It does not install the team; that comes in step 3.
2. Configure your repo
Section titled “2. Configure your repo”Run cpo-setup in your repo. It asks you the real decisions — tracker
(Linear or GitHub Issues), board states, owner, verify commands — and
writes:
.cpo-stack/config.yaml— your board factsdocs/agents/issue-tracker.md— your tracker’s verbs
Every skill reads these before acting. No skill hardcodes a board fact.
3. Hire the team
Section titled “3. Hire the team”Setup discovers existing providers and installs the selections you authorize.
Choose one engineering lead in runtime.engineering_lead. Pstack uses
/poteto-mode; CE uses its own engineering workflow. Other engineering skills
are optional companions.
| Seat | Library | Install |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering lead | pstack | On Cursor, /add-plugin pstack, then /setup-pstack. Other hosts use a working provider installation or adapter. See the pstack README. |
| Alternative engineering lead | Compound Engineering | Use its documented installer for the active host and approved scope. |
| Optional companions | mattpocock/skills | npx skills add mattpocock/skills |
| Research | A Smart Bear (planned for 1.1) | download from skills.asmartbear.com |
| Research | last30days | /plugin marketplace add mvanhorn/last30days-skill then /plugin install last30days@last30days-skill |
| Research | Anthropic PM plugin | claude plugin marketplace add anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins then claude plugin install product-management@knowledge-work-plugins |
| Design | Impeccable (candidate) | npx impeccable install |
| Design | Claude Design (candidate) | built into Claude Code — /design |
Pstack commands must resolve from the same selected installation. Setup verifies that the active host loads its model configuration. A Cursor rule does not establish that another host consumes it. Optional seats can remain empty; missing requirements of the selected engineering lead hold engineering readiness.
Check the install
Section titled “Check the install”Run cpo-standup to check tracker connectivity. That does not prove engineering
readiness. Setup separately checks provider discovery, required dependencies,
model access, and a bounded read-only smoke task. It records the evidence and
remaining gaps in FACTORY.md.