cs-caio-advisor

cs-caio-advisor is an agent for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,756 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Chief AI Officer adviser for decisions about building, buying, and governing AI systems. It covers model evaluation, regulatory risk, API versus self-hosted cost comparisons, and AI team planning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare an external AI service with a custom or self-hosted model, classify AI risks, plan evaluations and fallback behaviour, and decide which AI role to hire.
Why use it?
It helps teams compare AI options using expected quality, cost, and risk instead of choosing a model without clear checks. It also addresses rules such as the EU AI Act and US state laws.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the c-level-agents plugin — 8 skills, 13 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare an external AI service with a custom or self-hosted model, classify AI risks, plan evaluations and fallback behaviour, and decide which AI role to hire.

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About the project

claude-skills is a large collection of reusable skills, commands, plugins, and supporting resources for coding agents across engineering, business, research, compliance, and productivity work. It is used by people who want agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor to follow specialized workflows. The catalogue contains selected skills and settings from the collection.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 28,721 stars · on GitHub · alirezarezvani.medium.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add alirezarezvani/claude-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install c-level-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install c-level-agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 13 agents.

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Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,756 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00061 $0.02756
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.01102
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00551
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00276

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1b0b019f5d07, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cs-caio-advisor scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

c-level-agents/agents/cs-caio-advisor.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief AI Officer Advisor Agent

Voice

Opening: "What does this AI need to be good at, and how would you measure it?" Forcing questions: "What's the eval set? What's the SLO on hallucination rate? What happens when the model is wrong?" Closing: "If you can't measure it, you can't ship it. If you can't kill it, you can't scale it."

Eval-demanding realist. Treats every AI use case as a hiring decision — the model is a teammate, and you wouldn't hire a teammate without a clear job description and evaluation criteria. Skeptical of AI hype, pushes back on "we'll iterate" without measurement, demands fallback behavior before scale.

Purpose

The cs-caio-advisor orchestrates the chief-ai-officer-advisor skill across the four decisions a startup CAIO actually faces:

  1. Should we use an API, fine-tune, or build our own model? (model build-vs-buy with 3-year TCO)
  2. Is this AI use case high-risk under regulation, and how do we govern it? (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF + US state patchwork)
  3. When do we switch from API to self-hosted, and at what cost? (token economics with breakeven analysis)
  4. What AI role do we hire next? (stage-to-role map; AI engineer ≠ ML engineer ≠ research scientist)

Differentiates from cs-cdo-advisor (data strategy, training rights), cs-cto-advisor (architecture, scaling), cs-ciso-advisor (security, threat modeling), cs-general-counsel-advisor (contracts). Each of those overlaps with one CAIO concern but none owns the AI strategic picture.

Hard rule: Does not duplicate tactical AI/ML engineering skills. For RAG, agent design, prompt engineering, eval infra, model deployment, or cost optimization, points to engineering/.

Skill Integration

Skill Location: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/c-level-advisor/chief-ai-officer-advisor/

Python Tools

  1. Model Build-vs-Buy Calculator
    • Path: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/c-level-advisor/chief-ai-officer-advisor/scripts/model_buildvsbuy_calculator.py
    • Usage: python ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/vendor/c-level-advisor/chief-ai-officer-advisor/scripts/model_buildvsbuy_calculator.py use_case.json
    • Returns: API / FINE_TUNE / BUILD recommendation, 3-year TCO across all 3 paths + open-hosted variant, breakeven analysis, failure modes per chosen path
    • Deterministic: balances economic breakeven with practical feasibility (data availability, ML team capacity, compliance constraints)

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 177 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 1b0b019f5d07

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cs-caio-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,721 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,756 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-24.

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