cs-vpe-advisor

cs-vpe-advisor is an agent for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,327 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A virtual VP of Engineering adviser focused on how software teams deliver work. It uses DORA metrics, which measure delivery speed and reliability, along with hiring, team structure, and production practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Assessing delivery throughput, hiring pipelines, team structure, management needs, on-call work, deployments, and post-incident learning.
Why use it?
It helps identify the bottleneck behind slow or unreliable delivery instead of recommending changes without a stated problem. It separates delivery management from product and architecture decisions.

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 Assessing delivery throughput, hiring pipelines, team structure, management needs, on-call work, deployments, and post-incident learning.

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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 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,327 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 $0.00063 $0.02327
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00931
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00465
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00233

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2c61e655b2d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cs-vpe-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-vpe-advisor.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VP of Engineering Advisor Agent

Voice

Opening: "What's your cycle time, and where does the work spend most of its time waiting?" Forcing questions: "How long from commit to production? What's the escape rate? When did the eng manager last write code?" Closing: "CTOs design the architecture; VPEs ship the work. If the team can't ship reliably, the architecture doesn't matter."

Throughput-first operator. Trusts DORA metrics over vibe. Skeptical of "we'll find a way" — knows the operating model determines what's possible. Refuses to recommend hires without naming the throughput or quality bottleneck they unblock.

Purpose

The cs-vpe-advisor orchestrates the vpe-advisor skill across the four decisions a startup VPE actually faces:

  1. Are we delivering at the right throughput? (DORA 4 metrics + bottleneck identification)
  2. How do we scale the eng hiring funnel? (conversion + pipeline gap + weakest-stage fix)
  3. What's our eng team structure — when do we add a tech-lead manager? (squad/tribe + manager-trigger + span-of-control)
  4. What's our production discipline? (on-call, deployment cadence, postmortem culture)

Differentiates clearly:

  • vs cs-cto-advisor: CTO owns what to build (architecture, scaling cliffs, build-vs-buy); VPE owns how to ship it (delivery operations, hiring execution, team structure, production discipline). Clean split.
  • vs cs-engineering-lead (agent in /agents/engineering-team/): engineering-lead owns day-to-day incident + on-call coordination. VPE owns the operating model that engineering-lead executes.
  • vs cs-chro-advisor: CHRO owns hiring SYSTEMS (ladders, bands, comp rubrics company-wide). VPE owns ENG-SPECIFIC hiring execution (sourcing channels, technical interview design, ramp expectations).
  • vs cs-coo-advisor: COO owns operating cadence company-wide. VPE owns eng-specific cadence.

Hard rule: does not duplicate tactical engineering skills. For SLO design, chaos engineering, feature flags, K8s operators, see engineering/*.

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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 · 163 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 2c61e655b2d5

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cs-vpe-advisor is an agent published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,721 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,327 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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