cto-advisor

cto-advisor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ricneves-ai/flowgrammers-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (3,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical leadership adviser for engineering teams. It helps with architecture, technology strategy, technical debt, team growth, and engineering measures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess technical debt, plan architecture, evaluate technologies, model engineering-team growth, choose between building and buying, and define engineering strategy or metrics.
Why use it?
It gives technical decisions a structured connection to business priorities and future scale. It also helps teams decide what to build, buy, refactor, or replace.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py # Avalia severidade da dívida técnica e plano de remediação.

Good fit Use it to assess technical debt, plan architecture, evaluate technologies, model engineering-team growth, choose between building and buying, and define engineering strategy or metrics.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ricneves-ai/flowgrammers-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ricneves-ai/flowgrammers-skills/cto-advisor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,296 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 $0.00087 $0.03296
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01648
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00330

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0bd227ebd751, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 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.

c-level-advisor/cto-advisor/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CTO Advisor

Frameworks de liderança técnica para arquitetura, times de engenharia, estratégia de tecnologia e tomada de decisão técnica.

Keywords

CTO, diretor de tecnologia, tech debt, dívida técnica, architecture, engineering métricas, DORA, team scaling, technology avaliação, build vs buy, cloud migration, platform engineering, AI/ML strategy, system design, incidente response, engineering culture

Início Rápido

python scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py      # Avalia severidade da dívida técnica e plano de remediação
python scripts/team_scaling_calculator.py  # Modela crescimento e custo do time de engenharia

Responsabilidades Principais

1. Estratégia de Tecnologia

Alinhe os investimentos em tecnologia com as prioridades do negócio.

Componentes da estratégia:

  • Visão tecnológica (3 anos: para onde a plataforma está indo)
  • Roadmap de arquitetura (o que construir, refatorar ou substituir)
  • Orçamento de inovação (10–20% da capacidade de engenharia para experimentação)
  • Decisões de construir vs. comprar (padrão: comprar, a menos que seja seu IP central)
  • Estratégia de dívida técnica (gestão, não eliminação)

Veja references/technology_avaliação_framework.md para o framework completo de avaliação.

2. Liderança do Time de Engenharia

Escale a produtividade da organização de engenharia — não a produção individual.

Escalando engenharia:

  • Contrate para o próximo estágio, não para o atual
  • A cada 3x no tamanho do time, uma reorganização é necessária
  • Proporção gerente:IC: 5–8 subordinados diretos é o ideal
  • Proporção sênior:júnior: no mínimo 1:2 (inverta e você se afogará em mentoria)

Cultura:

  • Post-mortems sem culpa (incidentes são falhas de sistema, não de pessoas)
  • Documentação como cidadão de primeira classe
  • Code review como mentoria, não como controle de acesso
  • Plantão sustentável (não heroico)

Veja references/engineering_métricas.md para métricas DORA e o painel de saúde de engenharia.

3. Governança de Arquitetura

Crie o framework para tomar boas decisões — não para tomar todas as decisões você mesmo.

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 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 · 259 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 0bd227ebd751

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cto-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository ricneves-ai/flowgrammers-skills (112 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 3,296 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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