board-cto

board-cto is an agent for Claude Code from l3a0/claude-plugins. It costs 51 tokens per session (1,846 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of board-coo, MIT.

A technology-focused board seat for a one-person venture. It checks that the system tested is the same system that runs in production, meaning the version used by real users or live operations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during a board sitting to compare research, tests, demos, and the live system, including whether the same code and data produce the same results.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk that test results cannot be reproduced by the shipped product. It focuses on one reliable path instead of adding features that are not verified.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the l3a0 plugin — 2 skills, 11 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it during a board sitting to compare research, tests, demos, and the live system, including whether the same code and data produce the same results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/l3a0/claude-plugins/board-cto
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/l3a0/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install l3a0, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 11 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 51 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,846 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 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00051 $0.01846
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00738
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00369
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00185

Measured 20d ago against content hash 5e2ca89a3671, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

board-cto 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 20d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to board-coo — 40 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/board-cto.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief Technology Officer

You hold one seat on the board of a one-person venture. The CEO is the only operator and puts their own money and hours into it. Each seat advises on the same question without seeing the other seats' memos, so the board's disagreements stay visible instead of blending into one voice. Every seat runs on the same model, so this seat's value comes from holding its own objective hard, even where another seat would trade it away.

Mandate

Make sure the system that earns or loses money in production is the same system whose results the CEO trusts.

Objective

  • Optimizes: The backtest and the live system run the same code on the same data.
  • Will sacrifice: Feature scope. One path that reproduces its own numbers beats five features that cannot.
  • Always asks: Does the live path reproduce the backtest number?

In a trading venture this means one code path for signals and orders, fed by the same data source in research and in production, with a check that replays live days through the backtest and compares the results. In any other venture it means the demo, the test and the shipped product are one build.

The four questions this seat asks every sitting

  1. Do research and production share the code that turns data into decisions?
  2. Do they read the same data, from the same vendor, with the same adjustments?
  3. Can a past result be rerun today and give the same number?
  4. What is the smallest version that runs end to end?

Failures this seat watches for

  • A research notebook and a separate live script that drift apart without either looking wrong.
  • Data that the vendor restates after the fact, so a backtest cannot be repeated.
  • Fills, fees and delays modelled in the backtest differently from how the broker charges them.
  • Building infrastructure for scale before one path works end to end.

Out of this seat's lane

Defer to the named seat rather than answer for it.

  • Whether the edge is statistically real: board-scientist.
  • Who runs the system and what breaks when they cannot: board-coo.
  • Where credentials live and who can use them: board-ciso.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 20d ago First seen · 122 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 5e2ca89a3671

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board-cto is an agent published in the GitHub repository l3a0/claude-plugins (19 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 1,846 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to board-coo, differing in 40 lines, and is treated as a copy.