GStack + OpenClaw: Best Practices for AI Agent Workflows
GStack is an AI engineering workflow toolkit open-sourced by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan. OpenClaw is the AI assistant powering our company website. This article explores how to combine the two to create an efficient AI agent development and deployment workflow.
GStack + OpenClaw: Best Practices for AI Agent Workflows
Introduction
In March 2026, Garry Tan, President & CEO of Y Combinator, open-sourced his personal Claude Code configuration project called GStack on GitHub. Within a week, the project garnered over 8,000 stars, becoming a hot topic in the tech community.
In parallel, OpenClaw (nicknamed “the Lobster”) serves as the AI assistant powering our company website, and is being adopted by more and more enterprises. So, what happens when GStack meets OpenClaw?
What is GStack
GStack is a collection of SKILL.md rule files that give AI agents structured roles, transforming a general-purpose AI assistant into an on-demand team of expert specialists.
Core Philosophy
“Let one person ship like a team of twenty.” — Garry Tan
GStack defines a standardized workflow covering the entire software engineering lifecycle:
Think → Plan → Build → Review → Test → Ship → Reflect
Key Skills Overview
| Role | Command | Core Responsibility |
|---|---|---|
| CEO/Founder | /plan-ceo-review | Rethink the product, find the 10-star product hidden in requirements |
| Engineering Manager | /plan-eng-review | Lock architecture, data flow, edge cases, and test plans |
| Senior Designer | /plan-design-review | Rate design dimensions, detect AI slop |
| Staff Engineer | /review | Find bugs that pass CI but blow up in production |
| QA Lead | /qa | Real browser testing, automated regression tests |
| Security Officer | /cso | OWASP Top 10 + STRIDE threat modeling |
| Release Engineer | /ship | Sync code, run tests, push PRs, create releases |
| Browser Engineer | /browse | Real Chromium browser, ~100ms per command |
GStack includes 28 specialized skills, all under MIT license, completely free.
GStack in Numbers
According to Garry Tan’s shared data:
- Last 60 days: Generated 600,000+ lines of production code (35% tests)
- Daily output: 10,000-20,000 lines of code, part-time
- One week of
/retro: 140,751 lines added, 362 commits, ~115k net LOC
“I don’t think I’ve typed like a line of code probably since December.” — Andrej Karpathy, March 2026
What is OpenClaw
OpenClaw (“the Lobster”) is an open-source AI agent framework with over 247,000 GitHub stars, widely adopted for enterprise AI application development.
As the AI editor assistant for Xi’an Boao Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (西安铂傲智能科技有限公司), OpenClaw handles:
- Content creation: Writing news articles and blog posts based on latest information
- Website maintenance: Updating and publishing website content
- Information retrieval: Searching the web for latest news and information
- Multilingual support: Simultaneous Chinese and English content publishing
OpenClaw supports the SKILL.md standard, which means it can natively integrate with GStack’s skill ecosystem.
GStack + OpenClaw: The Synergy
Why They Work Together
GStack’s official README states clearly:
“gstack works on any agent that supports the SKILL.md standard. Skills live in
.agents/skills/and are discovered automatically.”
OpenClaw fully supports the SKILL.md standard, making the combination highly effective:
| Dimension | OpenClaw Only | GStack + OpenClaw |
|---|---|---|
| Workflow | Flexible general assistant | Structured professional team process |
| Code Review | Basic review | Multi-dimensional deep review (CEO/Eng/Design) |
| Testing | Manual triggering | Automated QA + regression testing |
| Deployment | Manual operations | One-click Ship + Land & Deploy |
| Browser Interaction | Basic functionality | Real browser automation |
Combined Workflow Example
User presents a requirement
↓
/office-hours (Product requirement clarification)
↓
/plan-ceo-review (CEO perspective review)
↓
/plan-eng-review (Engineering architecture design)
↓
/review (Code review)
↓
/qa (Automated testing)
↓
/ship → /land-and-deploy (Automated deployment)
↓
/retro (Retrospective)
Boao’s AI Practice
As a company focused on AI application implementation, Xi’an Boao Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (西安铂傲) is committed to transforming cutting-edge AI technologies into enterprise-ready solutions.
During our technical evaluation and validation phase, we conducted in-depth research on the GStack approach and explored applying its core philosophy to optimize our content production workflow. By combining OpenClaw with GStack’s structured workflow, we are discovering an efficient content creation model that we plan to progressively roll out in customer service scenarios.
The core philosophy of this approach: Let one person achieve what would normally require an entire team.
Getting Started
Install GStack (for OpenClaw)
# Clone GStack to OpenClaw workspace
git clone https://github.com/garrytan/gstack.git ~/.openclaw/skills/gstack
cd ~/.openclaw/skills/gstack && ./setup --host auto
Quick Start
- Run
/office-hours— Describe what you want to build - Run
/plan-ceo-review— Let AI review your idea from a CEO’s perspective - Run
/review— Get deep code review - Run
/qa— Automatically test your application
Conclusion
The combination of GStack and OpenClaw represents a new paradigm in AI-assisted development: not replacing humans, but amplifying human capabilities.
As Garry Tan put it: “The revolution is here. A single builder with the right tooling can move faster than a traditional team.”
Xi’an Boao will continue exploring and applying these cutting-edge technologies to provide superior services for our enterprise users.
Resources
- GStack GitHub: https://github.com/garrytan/gstack
- OpenClaw GitHub: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
- Boao Website: www.boaoai.cn