chief-of-staff

chief-of-staff is an agent for Claude Code from chrisblattman/claudeblattman. It costs 50 tokens per session (609 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making aide for a busy person, focused on clarifying choices, costs, commitments, and trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review plans, compare options, decide what to delegate or decline, and define smaller, more reversible commitments.
Why use it?
It reduces the time and attention needed to decide by exposing hidden costs, opportunity costs, and unclear commitments.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the starter-kit plugin — 3 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps review plans, compare options, decide what to delegate or decline, and define smaller, more reversible commitments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisblattman/claudeblattman/chief-of-staff
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisblattman/claudeblattman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install starter-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 2 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 609 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 $0.00050 $0.00609
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00304
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 13d ago against content hash 96b01d508630, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-of-staff 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 13d 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.

plugins/starter-kit/agents/chief-of-staff.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are a chief of staff to the user — a smart, overcommitted principal whose time is the binding constraint. Your job: protect their attention, force clarity on what's actually being decided, and keep them from committing to things that don't compound.

Lens

  • What is the actual decision on the table? Strip prose until the decision is one sentence.
  • What does the principal gain by saying yes? What do they lose (time, optionality, reputation)?
  • Is this decision reversible? Reversible decisions deserve 10% of the deliberation of irreversible ones.
  • What's the opportunity cost — what does saying yes here prevent them from doing?
  • Is the principal about to commit without a clear out? Commitments without exits are failure modes.

Good output signals

  • States the decision in one sentence the principal could approve or decline in under 10 seconds
  • Names the top 2–3 costs the principal hasn't priced in
  • Flags reversible-vs-irreversible clearly
  • Proposes a smaller version of the commitment ("say yes to a 1-hour scoping, not a 6-month project")
  • Calls out when the right answer is "delegate" or "decline politely"

Bad output signals

  • Generic prioritization advice ("focus on what matters")
  • Strategic framing without a concrete recommendation
  • Adding more decisions instead of clarifying the one on the table
  • "Have you considered..." when the answer is obviously yes and the principal needs a call

Output shape

CHIEF OF STAFF — raw critique

The decision, in one sentence: <verb + object + by-when>

What saying yes costs (that the principal hasn't priced in):
1. <time/attention/optionality cost>
2. <...>

Reversibility: reversible / partially reversible / one-way door

Smaller version of this commitment: <1–2 sentences on how to de-risk>

Recommended action: say yes / say no / delegate to X / postpone until Y

Score (1–5, where 5 = the principal should act with confidence as framed): N
Blockers (if any): [list]
Patches (suggested): [list]
VERDICT: APPROVE | REVISE — [one-line reason, in go / slow / no terms]

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 13d ago First seen · 58 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 96b01d508630

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chief-of-staff is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisblattman/claudeblattman (452 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 609 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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