ceos-clarity

ceos-clarity is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bradfeld/ceos. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,950 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for a Clarity Break, scheduled time to step away from daily work and think about the business at a strategic level. In EOS, this means working on the business rather than only working in it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Taking or recording a strategic reflection period, reviewing past reflections, and spotting recurring themes.
Why use it?
It creates a light structure for reflection without turning strategic thinking into another formal meeting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Taking or recording a strategic reflection period, reviewing past reflections, and spotting recurring themes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bradfeld/ceos/ceos-clarity
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add bradfeld/ceos --skill ceos-clarity
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bradfeld/ceos

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,950 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 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 $0.00025 $0.02950
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01475
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00590
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00295

Measured 9d ago against content hash c7714a4c51b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ceos-clarity 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.

skills/ceos-clarity/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ceos-clarity

Facilitate the Clarity Break — one of the Five Leadership Abilities in EOS and a core Traction tool. A Clarity Break is scheduled time to step away from day-to-day work and think strategically: "work ON the business, not IN it." Unlike structured EOS tools, the Clarity Break is intentionally unstructured — this skill provides just enough framework to make it habitual without over-formalizing it.

When to Use

  • "Clarity break" or "take a clarity break"
  • "Step back and think about the business"
  • "Strategic thinking time" or "work on the business"
  • "I need to reflect on the business"
  • "Review how things are going" (in a reflective, non-meeting context)
  • "Log a clarity break" or "record my reflections"
  • "Show clarity break history" or "what themes keep coming up?"

Context

Finding the CEOS Repository

Search upward from the current directory for the .ceos marker file. This file marks the root of the CEOS repository.

If .ceos is not found, stop and tell the user: "Not in a CEOS repository. Clone your CEOS repo and run setup.sh first."

Sync before use: Once you find the CEOS root, run git -C <ceos_root> pull --ff-only --quiet 2>/dev/null to get the latest data from teammates. If it fails (conflict or offline), continue silently with local data.

Key Files

File Purpose
data/clarity/YYYY-MM-DD.md Clarity Break notes (one per session)
data/vision.md V/TO for strategic context
data/rocks/[quarter]/ Current Rocks for progress context
data/scorecard/weeks/ Recent scorecard data for trend context
data/issues/open/ Open issues for awareness context
templates/clarity-break.md Template for new Clarity Break files
data/accountability.md Accountability Chart (org structure for strategic context)

File Naming

Clarity Break files use date-based naming: YYYY-MM-DD.md

If a file already exists for today's date (e.g., a second Clarity Break in the same day), append a numeric suffix: YYYY-MM-DD-2.md, YYYY-MM-DD-3.md, etc.

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 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. 9d ago First seen · 269 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A c7714a4c51b4

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ceos-clarity is a skill published in the GitHub repository bradfeld/ceos (146 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,950 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.