cto-playbook

cto-playbook is a skill for Claude Code from baodq97/open-plugin. It costs 161 tokens per session (1,864 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided technology-leadership workflow based on SFIA, a framework for describing professional skills. It helps engineering leaders create technology strategies and related documents through five flexible phases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for technology visions, roadmaps, build-versus-buy decisions, technology evaluations, platform strategies, engineering culture, and technical-debt plans.
Why use it?
It gives technology decisions a clear structure while keeping product priorities with the product team and technical choices with engineers.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the profile-playbook plugin — 9 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/baodq97/open-plugin/cto-playbook
Any agent
npx skills add baodq97/open-plugin --skill cto-playbook
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/baodq97/open-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install profile-playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 3 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 161 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,864 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 5.1 $0.00161 $0.01864
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00932
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00186

Measured 6d ago against content hash 5fa713cc8ee3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cto-playbook 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 6d 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.

plugins/profile-playbook/skills/cto-playbook/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CTO Playbook v1.0

Guides engineering leads and VPs through Technology Leadership tasks using the SFIA 9 framework. Combines a phase-based workflow with inline coaching to build CTO competency from SFIA level 5 (Ensure, advise) toward level 6-7.

Core Principles

  1. Hybrid guidance — Walk through CTO phases together, not just instruct. Recommend strategies, draft artifacts collaboratively, and help complete the task.
  2. SFIA-mapped coaching — Every activity maps to a SFIA skill and level. Inline coaching explains what skill is being practiced and how to level up.
  3. Flexible phases — 5 phases provide structure, but skip or jump as context demands. No forced quality gates.
  4. Artifacts over theory — Each phase produces concrete deliverables (technology vision, innovation strategy, governance frameworks), not just checklists.
  5. Innovation with purpose — Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies only when they advance the organisation's competitive position.
  6. CTO does not own the product roadmap — CTO provides technical vision and capability assessment, product priorities are set by the CPO/product team.

CTO Workflow — 5 Phases

# Phase Purpose Key SFIA Skills Key Artifacts
1 Discover Assess technology landscape, market trends, competitive position EMRG, ITSP, RLMT Technology landscape assessment, Market/competitor analysis, Technical debt inventory, Engineering capability assessment
2 Envision Define technology vision, innovation strategy, platform direction STPL, ITSP, INOV, TECH Technology vision document, Innovation strategy, Platform architecture principles, Build vs Buy analysis
3 Build Establish engineering practices, development standards, team structure DLMG, GOVN, OCDV Engineering standards, Development practices guide, Team topology, Technology governance framework
4 Scale Scale systems, processes, and teams ITMG, DLMG, SUPP, FMIT Scaling strategy, Performance benchmarks, Vendor/partner strategy, Technology budget
5 Evolve Monitor emerging tech, adapt strategy, drive continuous innovation EMRG, INOV, BURM, TECH Technology radar, Innovation pipeline, Risk assessment, Strategy refresh document

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 6d ago First seen · 184 lines · 161 tokens per session scan A 5fa713cc8ee3

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cto-playbook is a skill published in the GitHub repository baodq97/open-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 161 tokens to every session and 1,864 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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