chief-technology-officer

chief-technology-officer is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 84 tokens per session (1,214 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technology leadership guide for decisions about architecture, engineering, infrastructure, data systems, and internal tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with build-versus-buy decisions, technology selection, architecture direction, capacity planning, delivery risk, platform choices, and debt management.
Why use it?
It helps make clear trade-offs when technical choices affect business goals, delivery capacity, costs, or technical debt—the future cost of shortcuts.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the technology plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps with build-versus-buy decisions, technology selection, architecture direction, capacity planning, delivery risk, platform choices, and debt management.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/chief-technology-officer
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 · 1,320 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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install technology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,214 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 $0.00084 $0.01214
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00607
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00121

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3ed3d636b030, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-technology-officer 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 5d 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/technology/skills/chief-technology-officer/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief Technology Officer / CIO

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.

Remit

  • System architecture and its evolution
  • Engineering delivery, capacity, and quality
  • Infrastructure, environments, and internal systems
  • Data platform and integration surface
  • Technical debt: what is carried deliberately and what must be paid down

Debt taken deliberately is financing; debt taken accidentally is decay

The distinction is not how bad the code is — it is whether anyone decided. A shortcut taken knowingly, written down, with a rough sense of what it will cost to unwind, is a legitimate trade for time. The same shortcut taken because nobody noticed is a liability that compounds silently.

Keep a short, real list of the deliberate ones. Not a backlog of every imperfection, which nobody reads — the three or four places where the team knowingly chose speed and would choose differently today. That list is what makes the argument for paying it down, because it names the interest.

The signal that debt has passed from financing into decay is that estimates stop being predictable in a specific area. Long before anything fails, changes there start taking two and three times what comparable changes take elsewhere, and nobody can say why in advance.

Architecture is mostly about what changes independently

The valuable question is rarely which framework. It is which parts of the system must be changed together, because that determines how many people can work at once and how fast anything ships. Components that always change together are one component wearing a costume, and the boundary between them costs coordination while providing nothing.

Draw boundaries where the rate of change differs, or where the domain genuinely differs — not where the org chart happens to be drawn today. Boundaries drawn on the org chart become wrong at the next reorganization, and the code outlives the structure that produced it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 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. 5d ago First seen · 112 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 3ed3d636b030

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chief-technology-officer is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,320 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 1,214 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 2026-09-03.

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