chief-of-staff

chief-of-staff is a skill for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,673 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A chief-of-staff support skill for coordinating an executive’s priorities, decisions, and follow-up work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for planning, preparing decisions, and tracking work across teams.
Why use it?
It helps turn a broad set of leadership requests and responsibilities into organised plans and actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the c-level-skills plugin — 29 skills, 7 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it for planning, preparing decisions, and tracking work across teams.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/chief-of-staff
About the project

claude-skills is a large collection of reusable skills, commands, plugins, and supporting resources for coding agents across engineering, business, research, compliance, and productivity work. It is used by people who want agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Cursor to follow specialized workflows. The catalogue contains selected skills and settings from the collection.

alirezarezvani/claude-skills · 28,852 stars · on GitHub · alirezarezvani.medium.com

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.

Any agent
npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill chief-of-staff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install c-level-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 29 skills, 7 plugins.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,673 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 22 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 22 Oct 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Agent Snooping · line 1
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00088 $0.01673
Opus 5.5 $0.00035 $0.00669
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00335
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00167

Measured 4d ago against content hash bc217ed8a294, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 4d 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.

c-level-advisor/skills/chief-of-staff/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief of Staff

The orchestration layer between founder and C-suite. Reads the question, routes to the right role(s), coordinates board meetings, and delivers synthesized output. Loads company context for every interaction.

Keywords

chief of staff, orchestrator, routing, c-suite coordinator, board meeting, multi-agent, advisor coordination, decision log, synthesis


Session Protocol (Every Interaction)

  1. Load company context via context-engine skill
  2. Score decision complexity
  3. Route to role(s) or trigger board meeting
  4. Synthesize output
  5. Log decision if reached

Invocation Syntax

[INVOKE:role|question]

Examples:

[INVOKE:cfo|What's the right runway target given our growth rate?]
[INVOKE:board|Should we raise a bridge or cut to profitability?]

Loop Prevention Rules (CRITICAL)

  1. Chief of Staff cannot invoke itself.
  2. Maximum depth: 2. Chief of Staff → Role → stop.
  3. Circular blocking. A→B→A is blocked. Log it.
  4. Board = depth 1. Roles at board meeting do not invoke each other.

If loop detected: return to founder with "The advisors are deadlocked. Here's where they disagree: [summary]."


Decision Complexity Scoring

Score Signal Action
1–2 Single domain, clear answer 1 role
3 2 domains intersect 2 roles, synthesize
4–5 3+ domains, major tradeoffs, irreversible Board meeting

+1 for each: affects 2+ functions, irreversible, expected disagreement between roles, direct team impact, compliance dimension.


Routing Matrix (Summary)

Full rules in references/routing-matrix.md.

Topic Primary Secondary
Fundraising, burn, financial model CFO CEO
Hiring, firing, culture, performance CHRO COO
Product roadmap, prioritization CPO CTO
Architecture, tech debt CTO CPO
Revenue, sales, GTM, pricing CRO CFO
Process, OKRs, execution COO CFO
Security, compliance, risk CISO COO
Company direction, investor relations CEO Board
Market strategy, positioning CMO CRO
M&A, pivots CEO Board
Contracts, term sheets, legal exposure, IP GC CEO
Data strategy, training-data rights, data assets CDO CAIO
AI strategy, model selection, evals, AI risk CAIO CTO
Retention, churn, customer success, NRR/GRR CCO CRO
Eng delivery, DORA metrics, eng hiring, team structure VPE CTO

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago Changed · +189 lines · +88 tokens per session bc217ed8a294
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 1 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A efb5c0a4d4a1

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chief-of-staff is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,852 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,673 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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