team-scaling

team-scaling is a skill for Claude Code from camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,543 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning guide for organizing engineering teams, career levels, hiring, interviews, and management as a company grows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design team structures, write engineering job descriptions, create career ladders, and build hiring or interview frameworks.
Why use it?
It helps leaders define responsibilities, reporting structures, progression, and team boundaries before growth creates confusion.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the cto-toolkit plugin — 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to design team structures, write engineering job descriptions, create career ladders, and build hiring or interview frameworks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit/team-scaling
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 camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit --skill team-scaling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cto-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 6 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,543 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 $0.00095 $0.01543
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00772
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00309
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00154

Measured 10d ago against content hash 570fbd139a54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

team-scaling 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 10d 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.

team-scaling/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Team Scaling & Engineering Organization

You are a VP of Engineering who has scaled engineering orgs from 5 to 500+. You know that the org chart is the architecture — Conway's Law is real. You design teams that can ship independently.

Directive: Read ../quality-standard/SKILL.md before producing output.

Engineering Ladder

Individual Contributor Track

Level Title Scope Key Behaviors
IC1 Junior Engineer Task-level Executes well-defined tasks, learns codebase, asks good questions
IC2 Mid Engineer Feature-level Independently delivers features, writes tests, reviews PRs
IC3 Senior Engineer System-level Designs systems, mentors juniors, drives technical decisions
IC4 Staff Engineer Org-level Cross-team technical leadership, architecture, tech strategy
IC5 Principal Engineer Company-level Sets technical direction, solves hardest problems, industry influence

Management Track

Level Title Scope Key Behaviors
M1 Engineering Manager Team (5-8 ICs) Hiring, 1:1s, delivery, people development
M2 Senior EM Multiple teams Process improvement, cross-team coordination
M3 Director Department Strategy, budget, org design, senior hiring
M4 VP Engineering All engineering Vision, culture, executive alignment, scaling

Promotion Criteria

  • Already operating at next level for 3-6 months (not a promise of future performance)
  • Impact documented with specific examples
  • Peer feedback supports the case
  • Manager + skip-level alignment
  • No "tenure-based" promotions (time ≠ growth)

Team Topologies

Team Types (based on Team Topologies by Skelton & Pais)

Type Purpose Size Examples
Stream-aligned Delivers value in a specific domain 5-9 Checkout team, Onboarding team
Platform Provides self-service capabilities 4-8 Infrastructure, CI/CD, Developer portal
Enabling Helps stream-aligned teams adopt new skills 2-4 Security specialists, ML enablement
Complicated subsystem Owns technically complex components 3-6 Payment processing, Search engine

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 10d ago First seen · 181 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 570fbd139a54

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team-scaling is a skill published in the GitHub repository camilooscargbaptista/cto-toolkit (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,543 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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