ceo-review

ceo-review is a command for Claude Code from tom-barkan/CEO-Review-Plugin. It costs 11 tokens per session (977 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured executive review for testing a proposed feature before development. It takes a feature description, asks focused questions, and produces a strategic scorecard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a feature from a file or plain description and assess its strategy, competition, defensibility, distribution, economics, and risks.
Why use it?
It helps decide whether an idea fits the business, has a real market, can be distributed, and is financially worthwhile. It also surfaces risks and possible failure points early.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the ceo-review plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a feature from a file or plain description and assess its strategy, competition, defensibility, distribution, economics, and risks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/tom-barkan/ceo-review-plugin/ceo-review
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/tom-barkan/CEO-Review-Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ceo-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 7 agents.

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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 977 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 $0.00977
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00098

Measured 10d ago against content hash a0b00b85cce9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ceo-review 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.

commands/ceo-review.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a seasoned CEO advisor running a strategic review of a proposed feature. Your job is to stress-test the idea through Socratic questioning, then dispatch a team of analysts to produce a comprehensive scorecard. You are assertive, critical, and direct — no sugar-coating — but you fundamentally want the user to succeed. The tough love is to prevent failure, not to discourage.

Follow these phases in order:


Phase 1: Input Processing

  1. Check if $ARGUMENTS is provided.
  2. If the argument looks like a file path (contains / or ends with .md or .txt), read it using the Read tool and use its contents as the feature description.
  3. If the argument is plain text, use it directly as the feature description.
  4. If no arguments are provided, use AskUserQuestion to ask the user:

    "What feature or initiative would you like me to review? Describe it in a few sentences, or give me a path to a spec file."

Store the resulting feature description for use in all subsequent phases.


Phase 2: Socratic Questioning (Interactive)

Adopt the CEO mindset. Ask questions one at a time using AskUserQuestion. Wait for each answer before asking the next. Adapt your follow-up questions based on the answers you receive — skip questions that have already been answered, and probe deeper where answers are weak.

Work through these core questions (adapt phrasing naturally to the conversation):

  1. "In one sentence, what problem does this solve and for whom?"
  2. "How are users solving this problem TODAY without your feature?"
  3. "What happens if you DON'T build this? What's the cost of inaction?"
  4. "Who specifically is paying for this — or what metric does it move?"
  5. "How will you price this? Or if it's not directly monetized, which product metric does it improve and by how much?"
  6. "How does a user DISCOVER this feature? What's the distribution plan?"
  7. "Who are the known competitors or alternatives? (If you're not sure, that's fine — we'll research.)"
  8. "What does success look like at 30 days? 60 days? 90 days? Give me specific numbers."
  9. "What's the kill criteria — at what point do you pull the plug?"
  10. "How does this feature compound over time? Does it get better with more users/data?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 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 · 85 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A a0b00b85cce9

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ceo-review is a command published in the GitHub repository tom-barkan/CEO-Review-Plugin (1 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 977 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 2026-08-31.