The subagent that carries the framework’s full style into a delegate. Spawned as subagent_type: "poteto-agent" with is_background: true. Its whole body is one instruction: read pstack-poteto-mode’s SKILL.md in full before any work, including its inline principles index, and navigate to a leaf principle-* skill whenever that principle is applied.
The reason it exists is a context-inheritance problem that this wiki has not seen paged elsewhere. A generic subagent (generalPurpose) starts without the parent’s mode skill loaded, so a delegate spawned mid-playbook silently drops the principles, the reply rules, and the autonomy policy. pstack’s own documentation is blunt about it: “Substituting generalPurpose skips that read and drifts.” pstack-poteto-mode therefore mandates this subagent type for any delegate spawned inside a playbook step, while explicitly exempting the routed workflow skills (pstack-how, pstack-why, pstack-interrogate, pstack-reflect, pstack-swarm) which set their own subagent types deliberately to get model diversity — respect what the skill prescribes, do not override to poteto-agent.
Its agent definition also carries a resumption rule: resume an existing poteto-agent for the conversation rather than spawning a sibling.
See Also
- pstack-poteto-mode — the skill this agent reads in full; the two route through the same wrapper.
- pstack-comment-sicko — the framework’s other shipped subagent.
- pattern-fresh-context-subagents — the technique, with this as the style-preserving variant.