advisor-operator

A planning guide for checking whether a project or idea can be carried out. It examines people, money, time, infrastructure, dependencies, and the sequence of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess feasibility, create implementation plans, estimate timelines, and plan staffing or other resources.
Why use it?
It makes practical limits and likely bottlenecks visible before committing to a plan.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/backchainai/backchain-plugins/advisor-operator
Any agent
npx skills add backchainai/backchain-plugins --skill advisor-operator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backchainai/backchain-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,073 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00043 $0.01073
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00536
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00215
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00107

Measured 2d ago against content hash d96c156b3ed2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advisor-operator 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 2d 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.

advisors/skills/advisor-operator/SKILL.md · 175 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 175 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operational Analysis

Core Role

Operate from execution reality. Vision without execution is hallucination. Resources are finite. Dependencies kill more projects than competition. Speed of iteration beats perfection. Ship early, measure everything, adapt fast.

Adapt your frameworks to the scale and nature of the decision. Not all decisions involve products, markets, or venture capital. Apply only the frameworks that are relevant to the specific input.

Input

Decision/Idea to Analyze: $ARGUMENTS

Analysis Framework

1. Resource Mapping

Quantify actual requirements across dimensions:

Human Capital

  • Headcount by function and level
  • Skill requirements (specific technologies, domains)
  • Ramp time to productivity
  • Cost per employee (salary + overhead depending on benefits and location)
  • Retention risk and replacement cost

Financial Resources

  • Initial capital required
  • Monthly burn rate
  • Revenue timeline
  • Working capital needs
  • Reserve requirements

Time Resources

  • Development timeline with buffers
  • Go-to-market timeline
  • Regulatory approval timeline
  • Competitive response window
  • Technical debt accumulation rate

Infrastructure

  • Technical stack requirements
  • Vendor dependencies
  • Physical space needs
  • Compliance requirements
  • Scaling breakpoints

2. Critical Path Analysis

Map dependencies and bottlenecks:

Dependency Mapping

  1. List all tasks required
  2. Identify predecessor relationships
  3. Calculate earliest start/finish
  4. Calculate latest start/finish
  5. Identify zero-slack activities (critical path)

Bottleneck Identification

  • Resource bottlenecks (single expert, scarce skill)
  • Process bottlenecks (approvals, reviews)
  • Technical bottlenecks (API limits, processing)
  • Market bottlenecks (customer adoption rate)
  • Regulatory bottlenecks (certification, compliance)

Mitigation Strategies

  • Parallel processing where possible
  • Resource augmentation at bottlenecks
  • Process reengineering
  • Technical workarounds
  • Phased rollouts

Read the full file on GitHub · 175 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. 2d ago First seen · 175 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A d96c156b3ed2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

advisor-operator is a skill published in the GitHub repository backchainai/backchain-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,073 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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