cto-advisor

cto-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (2,718 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding-agent skill named “cto-advisor,” apparently intended to advise a chief technology officer, the person responsible for an organisation’s technology direction. The supplied information does not describe its advice.

In plain words
What is it for?
It may support technology leadership decisions, but the supplied information does not identify particular tasks.
Why use it?
The available description is only a file path, so the specific decision-making problem it removes cannot be confirmed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

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

Good fit It may support technology leadership decisions, but the supplied information does not identify particular tasks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alirezarezvani/claude-skills/cto-advisor
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 · 28,607 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 cto-advisor
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.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,718 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 14 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 14 Sept 2026
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 $0.00071 $0.02718
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01087
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00544
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00272

Measured today against content hash 163188fbfa00, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cto-advisor 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/team_scaling_calculator.py, scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/cto-advisor/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CTO Advisor

Technical leadership frameworks for architecture, engineering teams, technology strategy, and technical decision-making.

Keywords

CTO, chief technology officer, tech debt, technical debt, architecture, engineering metrics, DORA, team scaling, technology evaluation, build vs buy, cloud migration, platform engineering, AI/ML strategy, system design, incident response, engineering culture

Quick Start

python scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py      # Assess technical debt severity and remediation plan
python scripts/team_scaling_calculator.py  # Model engineering team growth and cost

Core Responsibilities

1. Technology Strategy

Align technology investments with business priorities.

Strategy components:

  • Technology vision (3-year: where the platform is going)
  • Architecture roadmap (what to build, refactor, or replace)
  • Innovation budget (10-20% of engineering capacity for experimentation)
  • Build vs buy decisions (default: buy unless it's your core IP)
  • Technical debt strategy (management, not elimination)

See references/technology_evaluation_framework.md for the full evaluation framework.

2. Engineering Team Leadership

Scale the engineering org's productivity — not individual output.

Scaling engineering:

  • Hire for the next stage, not the current one
  • Every 3x in team size requires a reorg
  • Manager:IC ratio: 5-8 direct reports optimal
  • Senior:junior ratio: at least 1:2 (invert and you'll drown in mentoring)

Culture:

  • Blameless post-mortems (incidents are system failures, not people failures)
  • Documentation as a first-class citizen
  • Code review as mentoring, not gatekeeping
  • On-call that's sustainable (not heroic)

See references/engineering_metrics.md for DORA metrics and the engineering health dashboard.

3. Architecture Governance

Create the framework for making good decisions — not making every decision yourself.

Architecture Decision Records (ADRs):

  • Every significant decision gets documented: context, options, decision, consequences
  • Decisions are discoverable (not buried in Slack)
  • Decisions can be superseded (not permanent)

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. today Changed · +257 lines · +71 tokens per session 163188fbfa00
  2. 2d ago First seen · 1 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 19f05ad95178

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cto-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository alirezarezvani/claude-skills (28,607 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 2,718 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-22.

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