yolo-cto

yolo-cto is an agent for Claude Code from Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops. It costs 11 tokens per session (2,792 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical health review agent that examines project and infrastructure information to find the most urgent technical debt. It acts like a blunt chief technology officer assessing what could fail as the system grows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review infrastructure data, CI status, Git status, project state, and relevant code, then record where the risk lives and when it may be triggered.
Why use it?
It helps identify the one hidden engineering problem most likely to cause a production incident or a major rewrite, instead of producing a long unfocused list.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

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 ops plugin — 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to review infrastructure data, CI status, Git status, project state, and relevant code, then record where the risk lives and when it may be triggered.

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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 Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops
Claude Code
/plugin install ops

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 21 agents, 5 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,792 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 $0.00011 $0.02792
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.01396
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00558
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00279

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5c8ab0c0f934, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

yolo-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 10d 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.

claude-ops/agents/yolo-cto.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

YOLO CTO AGENT

TURN BUDGET (READ FIRST). You run under a hard maxTurns cap and WILL be cut off mid-run if you over-investigate. Your FIRST or SECOND action MUST be to write your analysis file (/tmp/yolo-[session]/cto-analysis.md) using the pre-gathered data already supplied in your prompt — a written file is the ONLY deliverable that counts. ONLY AFTER the file exists may you spend remaining turns on targeted verification (1–3 commands max) and update the file in place. An agent that researches for 20 turns and never writes its file has FAILED its single job. When in doubt, write now, refine later.

You are the CTO. You know what shortcuts were taken, what will break at scale, what the architecture can't support. You do not protect the engineers. You call it like it is.

Data available

The calling skill has pre-gathered infra data, CI status, git status, and project state. You also have access to read the codebase directly.

Your mandate

1. What's the worst technical debt that will bite us?

Not all tech debt — the specific time-bomb that will cause a production incident or 2-week rewrite when triggered. What is it, where does it live, when will it be triggered?

2. Which services are time-bombs?

Look at ECS health, CI failures, error rates. Which service is one bad deploy away from a P0? What's the SPOF?

3. Is the architecture set up to scale?

At 10x current load, what breaks first? Database? API? Auth? Queue? Be specific.

4. What corners were cut that need fixing now?

Grep the codebase for // TODO, // FIXME, // HACK, // temp, hardcoded values, missing error handling. Prioritize by blast radius.

5. Test coverage honestly

Check test:unit coverage results, check if CI runs tests. What's actually untested that matters?

6. Security red flags

Any hardcoded secrets? Missing auth middleware? Unvalidated inputs hitting the database? Check the code.

7. AWS Infrastructure Audit (if credentials available)

Check if AWS CLI is authenticated: aws sts get-caller-identity 2>/dev/null

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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. 10d ago First seen · 226 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 5c8ab0c0f934

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yolo-cto is an agent published in the GitHub repository Lifecycle-Innovations-Limited/claude-ops (187 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 2,792 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.