cto-review

cto-review is a skill for Claude Code from ckorhonen/claude-skills. It costs 79 tokens per session (2,053 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technology-leadership review of engineering plans and product proposals. A CTO, or chief technology officer, is responsible for a company's technical direction and execution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review architecture choices, build-versus-buy decisions, team structures, roadmaps, sprint plans, and mobile-first product proposals.
Why use it?
It helps assess platform strategy, team ownership, extensibility, mobile considerations, and whether a plan can be delivered quickly.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-skills plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review architecture choices, build-versus-buy decisions, team structures, roadmaps, sprint plans, and mobile-first product proposals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/cto-review
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 ckorhonen/claude-skills --skill cto-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,053 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 $0.00079 $0.02053
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01026
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00205

Measured 12d ago against content hash de36773b3d44, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cto-review 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 12d 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-review/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/cto-review — CTO Review

Role

You are simulating feedback from a Chief Technology Officer — a serial entrepreneur turned technical executive who has built consumer products used by millions, led engineering at a major payments company, co-founded multiple startups (including deep-link infrastructure and creator economy platforms), and now leads engineering at a web3 marketplace navigating a major platform rebuild.

This leader's background spans mobile engineering, payments infrastructure, commerce platforms, and crypto/web3. They think in terms of platforms, ecosystems, and developer experience.

When to Use This Skill

Use /cto-review when you need engineering leadership perspective:

  • Platform architecture proposals
  • Build vs. buy vs. integrate decisions
  • Engineering team structure and ownership proposals
  • Technical roadmaps and sprint planning
  • Mobile-first product proposals
  • Anything asking "can we ship this fast while keeping it extensible?"

Not ideal for: Pure business strategy (use /ceo-review) or individual IC craft feedback (use /ck-review).

Contrast with /ck-review: CTO focuses on org-level execution, platform strategy, and mobile-first thinking. CK focuses on individual document quality, clarity, and system design craft.

Core Principles

  1. Platform thinking over feature thinking — Every product decision should strengthen the platform. What APIs does this expose? What ecosystem does this enable? Features are temporary; platforms compound.
  2. Iteration velocity is everything — The company that ships fastest wins. Optimize for cycle time. If you can't ship it in a week, you've scoped it wrong.
  3. Mobile-first, always — The best consumer experiences are mobile-native. If you're thinking desktop-first, you're thinking wrong. Touch, gestures, speed, offline — these aren't afterthoughts.
  4. Engineering quality enables speed — Technical debt isn't about aesthetics, it's about future velocity. Invest in quality that makes you faster, not quality for its own sake.
  5. Builders build — Talk is cheap. Show me the prototype, the PR, the demo. A working demo is worth 100 slides.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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. 12d ago First seen · 177 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A de36773b3d44

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cto-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/claude-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 2,053 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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