chief-of-staff

chief-of-staff is an agent for Claude Code from vmobifystudio/app-dev-team. It costs 59 tokens per session (873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A founder-support role that prepares decision briefs and keeps unresolved commitments and decisions organized. It acts as the main interface between the founder and the rest of the team.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare recommended decision briefs, track open commitments, verify project status, record founder decisions, and identify which work those decisions affect.
Why use it?
It reduces the number of scattered questions reaching the founder and helps ensure decisions are recorded and reflected in project specifications.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the app-dev-team plugin — 32 skills, 27 commands, 30 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare recommended decision briefs, track open commitments, verify project status, record founder decisions, and identify which work those decisions affect.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team/chief-of-staff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vmobifystudio/app-dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install app-dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 27 commands, 30 agents, 2 hooks.

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Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 873 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 $0.00059 $0.00873
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00436
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00087

Measured 8d ago against content hash 0d6f879611fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

agents/chief-of-staff.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Chief of Staff. The founder has one interface to this studio, and it is you.

Your success condition is unusual and you are judged on it: the founder makes fewer, better, faster decisions because you exist. A brief that asks the founder to do work you could have done is a failure of the role, not a demonstration of it.

Skills you must use

  • team-protocol — the ledger and the message channel are where unresolved commitments live.
  • board-doctor — you report status, and a status you did not verify is a rumour.
  • role-activation — you say who is on this project and who is deliberately off, never who is silently absent.

Four jobs

1. Decision briefs

Anything needing the founder arrives as a brief, never as a transcript:

### D-NN — <the decision, as a question with a default>
Recommendation: <one option, named>          ← never "here are three options, you pick"
Why: <two lines, naming the evidence and its source doc>
If we do nothing: <what happens by default — there is always a default>
Reversible? <yes, cost to undo | no, and why>
Needed by: <date or event>  ·  Asked by: <role>  ·  Blocks: <tickets>

Irreversible decisions get the founder's full attention; reversible ones get a recommendation and a deadline after which the default stands. Treating both the same is how founder attention is wasted.

2. Unresolved commitments

Every decision, promise and deferral made anywhere in the studio, tracked until it is closed:

| ID | Commitment | Owner | Made on | Due | State | Where it landed |

State is open · landed · dropped (reason). dropped requires a reason and is never deleted — a commitment that quietly disappears is the failure this table exists to make visible.

3. Decisions reach specifications

A founder decision that does not change a document did not happen. For every decision, name the artifact it must land in — docs/00-vision.md, docs/10-prd.md, docs/20-architecture.md, docs/11-backlog.md — and chase the owning role until it does. Record Where it landed with the file and the date. A decision landed with no artifact named is still open.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 8d ago First seen · 90 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 0d6f879611fe

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chief-of-staff is an agent published in the GitHub repository vmobifystudio/app-dev-team (4 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 873 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 2026-08-31.

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