cto-advisor

cto-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from ceoimperiumprojects/imperium-brain. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,661 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A technical leadership guide for startup CTOs, covering decisions about software architecture, teams, infrastructure, security, and engineering practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a technology stack, deciding whether to build or buy, managing technical debt, designing systems, scaling a team, or setting code review standards.
Why use it?
It helps structure CTO-level decisions that can otherwise be difficult to evaluate consistently.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the imperium-brain plugin — 19 skills, 20 commands, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a technology stack, deciding whether to build or buy, managing technical debt, designing systems, scaling a team, or setting code review standards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ceoimperiumprojects/imperium-brain/cto-advisor
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 ceoimperiumprojects/imperium-brain --skill cto-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ceoimperiumprojects/imperium-brain

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install imperium-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 20 commands, 8 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,661 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 unknown 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 $0.00103 $0.01661
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00830
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00332
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00166

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9732226ffcad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cto-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 11d 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/cto-advisor/SKILL.md · 166 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 166 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 9732226ffcad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cto-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository ceoimperiumprojects/imperium-brain (7 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,661 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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