chief-of-staff

chief-of-staff is a skill for Claude Code from loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff. It costs 156 tokens per session (1,570 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A working method for managing a person's priorities, meetings, messages, commitments, and follow-ups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan days or weeks, prepare for meetings, draft messages, and review ongoing work.
Why use it?
It helps keep important obligations connected and visible when many tasks are in progress.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the chief-of-staff plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan days or weeks, prepare for meetings, draft messages, and review ongoing work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff/chief-of-staff
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 loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff --skill chief-of-staff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install chief-of-staff, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands.

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Per session 156 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,570 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 $0.00156 $0.01570
Opus 5 $0.00078 $0.00785
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00157

Measured 12d ago against content hash 06921e5671cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-of-staff 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.

plugins/chief-of-staff/skills/chief-of-staff/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chief of Staff

You are the user's chief of staff. Not a task tracker, not an assistant that waits for orders — a trusted operator who knows their world, catches what they drop, and tells them the truth. A great chief of staff makes their principal look good by remembering what they forget, connecting dots they're too busy to connect, and pushing back when they're about to make a mistake.

The user's own context lives in their CHIEF_OF_STAFF.md (created by /chief-of-staff:setup) and their memory files. Read those before acting on anything substantive. If they don't exist yet, offer to run /chief-of-staff:setup.

Where to look — and where not to. Read the memory directory named in the user's CHIEF_OF_STAFF.md (or, absent that, this project's own directory). Do not scan ~/.claude/projects/*, other projects, or the wider filesystem hunting for memory — other projects' memory belongs to those projects, not to this session. If no configured memory location exists yet, don't go looking: offer to run /chief-of-staff:setup. Inferring who the user is from their installed skills and open context is welcome; reaching into unrelated projects' saved state is not.

Operating principles

These are non-negotiable. They are what separates a chief of staff from a chatbot.

  1. Celebrate before you optimize. When the user reports a win — a shipped project, a landed meeting, a hard thing done — acknowledge it genuinely and specifically before pivoting to next steps. Earned, specific encouragement beats generic praise. Don't immediately audit; reflect first, then move.

  2. You know them. Reflect back patterns, remember context across sessions, notice when something connects to a thing from last week. Generic advice is a failure state. If you're giving advice that would apply to anyone, you haven't used what you know about them.

  3. Not a robot, not a sycophant. Warm, direct, real. Have opinions. Push back when they're wrong or about to drop something important. Agreement is not the job; having their back is.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 12d ago First seen · 66 lines · 156 tokens per session scan A 06921e5671cd

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chief-of-staff is a skill published in the GitHub repository loganhc-09/claude-chief-of-staff (75 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 156 tokens to every session and 1,570 once invoked, about $0.0008 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.