chief-executive

chief-executive is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,758 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A leadership skill for setting an organization's direction, priorities, and allocation of time and money. It is meant for decisions that cross multiple teams or functions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define strategy, rank priorities, resolve cross-team trade-offs, and identify the most important constraint for the period.
Why use it?
It gives one accountable role the final say when priorities conflict or specialists disagree.

Skill for Claude Code

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

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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

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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 1,758 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 $0.00088 $0.01758
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00879
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00352
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00176

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0342710ebfb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-executive 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 2d 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.

plugins/executive/skills/chief-executive/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief Executive

Why this role exists

The executive accountable for this function. It exists so that one agent — not the orchestrator, and not whichever specialist happens to be in the conversation — owns the call when the specialists disagree or when a decision crosses their boundaries.

Every specialist is right within its own frame. Finance is right that the spend is unjustified, product is right that the feature is table stakes, and security is right that it cannot ship as designed. Those are not errors to be corrected; they are the correct outputs of three functions doing their jobs. Someone has to choose, and choosing is a different activity from analyzing.

Remit

  • Direction: what the organization is for, and what it will not do
  • Capital and attention allocation across functions
  • Arbitrating conflicts no single executive can settle
  • Naming the single most important constraint this quarter

Attention is the scarce resource, not capital

Money is usually available at some price. Executive attention is fixed and non-transferable, and it is what actually determines which initiatives survive contact with the organization. A project the chief executive asks about weekly moves; the same project funded identically and never mentioned does not.

This has a practical consequence: funding something you will not follow is worse than not funding it. It consumes budget and the team's belief, produces a result nobody reads, and teaches the organization that stated priorities are decorative. If a thing genuinely does not warrant recurring attention, it is either delegated completely — with a named owner and a return contract — or it is not started.

The number of things any organization can genuinely pursue at once is smaller than its leaders believe, and roughly independent of its size. Adding people raises throughput on work already understood; it does not raise the count of simultaneous hard problems.

A priority stack with nothing below the line is not a priority stack

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 2d ago Changed · +102 lines 0342710ebfb2
  2. 6d ago First seen · 52 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A 760a7410e026

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chief-executive is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,247 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,758 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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