chief-of-staff

chief-of-staff is a skill for Codex from bestagentkits/agency-skills. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,672 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of chief-of-staff, MIT.

A coordinating advisor for company leaders. It sends a founder’s question to the relevant executive role or brings several roles together for a complex decision, then combines their answers and records decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to route strategy questions, coordinate leadership reviews, run board-style discussions, synthesize advice, and track decisions.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide which advisor should handle each question and keeps multi-person decisions organized. It also prevents circular handoffs between advisors.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to route strategy questions, coordinate leadership reviews, run board-style discussions, synthesize advice, and track decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bestagentkits/agency-skills/chief-of-staff
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Codex.

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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 1,672 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 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01672
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00836
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00334
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00167

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1a0f50192017, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 9d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to chief-of-staff — 11 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/claude-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

3 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. 9d ago First seen · 190 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 1a0f50192017

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chief-of-staff is a skill published in the GitHub repository bestagentkits/agency-skills (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,672 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to chief-of-staff, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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