pstack's Playbooks, Explained as Factorio Factories

If you have played Factorio, you know that every factory has a shape. A smelter line is long and straight. A circuit factory has loops. A train station has buffers. You can tell what a factory makes just by looking at it from above. I’ve been using pstack, a plugin by poteto that turns a coding agent into something closer to a careful engineer. After a while I noticed the same thing: every pstack playbook has a shape. A bug fix has a loop back to the start. A refactoring has a gate that throws work away. A hillclimb is one big loop. So I built them as factories. What pstack is pstack is a set of skills. You don’t have to learn most of them, because one skill, /poteto-mode, runs the rest for you. You describe the task and how you’ll know it’s done. poteto-mode matches the task to one of 23 playbooks, copies the playbook’s steps into a todo list, and calls the other skills (how, architect, arena, interrogate, and so on) as each step needs them. The idea behind it is simple: AI writes a…