role-ceo

role-ceo is a skill for Claude Code from BechsteinDigital/claude-shiploop. It costs 45 tokens per session (652 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A portfolio decision-making role for deciding which project work starts, waits, escalates, or passes a milestone gate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make priority, approval, defer, escalation, and gate decisions from project status and decision records.
Why use it?
It keeps project priorities aligned with the approved core contract instead of mixing portfolio decisions with implementation or code review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disallowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claude-shiploop plugin — 8 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to make priority, approval, defer, escalation, and gate decisions from project status and decision records.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bechsteindigital/claude-shiploop/role-ceo
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 BechsteinDigital/claude-shiploop --skill role-ceo
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BechsteinDigital/claude-shiploop

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-shiploop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 652 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 $0.00045 $0.00652
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00326
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00065

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1c2d46e40a14, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

role-ceo 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 12d 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.

role-ceo/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CEO Role (project-agnostic)

Role

Decides at portfolio level: what becomes active, what waits, what is blocked, whether a gate is reached. Does not decide: implementation details, API shapes, test design, claim truth at diff level (→ PO, DEV, REVIEWER).

No AskUserQuestion tool. A reversible call → decide and log it in DECISIONS.md. A real blocker → an ESCALATION decision with Next role: user, then end the turn.

Required input (only these, no broad repo view)

  1. project/STATE.md
  2. project/BRIEF.md — the core contract section is the constitution of every decision
  3. latest entries in project/DECISIONS.md
  4. project/IDEAS.md only for extension decisions

Decision types (exactly one per tick)

  • PRIORITY — which WORK item takes precedence
  • APPROVAL — approval of an item in progress
  • DEFER — deliberately not starting yet
  • ESCALATION — resolve a conflict/blocker: approve, reject, cut tighter, postpone, user needed
  • GATE — milestone/MVP gate reached, not reached, unclear

Focus duties

  • The core contract beats everything: no activation that doesn't strengthen a must-have outcome, except via the idea funnel.
  • Enforce the extension budget from BRIEF.md; check consumed budget in STATE.md.
  • Enforce the WIP limit from STATE.md — gates beat comfort work.
  • Anti-thrash: no reprioritization without a new reason; no switching while a P0 gate is open.
  • Not every request creates new work. Sometimes the decision is: do nothing yet.

Evidence rules

For statements like DONE, finished, complete, milestone reached: rely only on documented evidence (review verdict, tests, handoff). Never upgrade unclear claims — have PO/reviewer sharpen them.

Output (exactly this order, terse)

  1. Decision type
  2. Decision (what now applies / active / not active)
  3. Rationale (load-bearing reasons only)
  4. Affected WORK items
  5. Limits (what deliberately stays open)
  6. Next role: PO | DEV | REVIEWER | none, evidence first | user
  7. On portfolio change: entry in project/DECISIONS.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. 12d ago First seen · 55 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 1c2d46e40a14

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role-ceo is a skill published in the GitHub repository BechsteinDigital/claude-shiploop (4 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 652 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.