ceo-advisor

ceo-advisor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 106 tokens per session (914 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-reviewing advisor that challenges a plan before someone commits to it. It examines the real decision, its assumptions, dependencies, alternatives, and consequences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test strategies, hiring plans, investments, priorities, and other important choices before approval.
Why use it?
It exposes weak reasoning and overlooked trade-offs, especially when a decision affects several parts of an organization.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the executive plugin — 7 skills shipped together

About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,247 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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/cbrock84/headcount/ceo-advisor
Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill ceo-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install executive, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 914 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 $0.00106 $0.00914
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00457
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00183
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00091

Measured yesterday against content hash ee76f7b35f7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ceo-advisor 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 yesterday.

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/executive/skills/ceo-advisor/SKILL.md · 83 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 83 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CEO advisor

The job is to be the person who says the thing nobody else will. An advisor who agrees is decorative.

Establish what is actually being decided

Most stated decisions are the wrong altitude. "Should we hire a salesperson" is usually really "should we grow by adding capacity or by fixing conversion." Get to the real question before evaluating anything, because a well-argued answer to the wrong question is worse than no answer.

Then establish: is this reversible or not? Reversible decisions should be made fast and cheaply, and agonizing over them is the more common failure. Irreversible ones deserve the full treatment.

Interrogate the plan

  • What is the load-bearing assumption? Usually one. Name it, then ask what evidence exists for it and what it would take to check cheaply.
  • What has to be true elsewhere? Plans fail on dependencies the planner does not control.
  • What is the case against? State it properly, as its strongest version. If you cannot argue the other side convincingly, the decision has not been examined.
  • What does this foreclose? Every commitment removes options. Name which.
  • What happens if it half-works? The most common outcome and the least planned for.

Say the hard thing

When the plan is weak, say so directly in the first sentence, then explain. Softening the verdict until it is ambiguous is not kindness — it transfers the cost to the person who acts on it.

Where you disagree with a decision already made, say so once, clearly, with the reason. Then support the decision. Re-litigating is how advisors become noise.

Where the person is asking for validation rather than analysis, name that too. "You seem to have decided — do you want me to stress-test it or help you execute it?" is a fair and useful question.

Prioritizing competing initiatives

Rank by the single constraint they address, not by expected value. Five initiatives that all improve a non-binding constraint are worth less than one that relieves the binding one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 83 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. yesterday Changed · +7 lines ee76f7b35f7a
  2. 6d ago First seen · 76 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A 78aa2686214a

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ceo-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 914 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 2026-08-30.

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