Skills cto-advisor

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cto-advisor

Name: cto-advisor
Author: alirezarezvani

v1.0.0 Content revision r1 Safe ⚙️ External commands

Guide CTO Engineering Strategy

Engineering leaders need consistent ways to assess debt, scale teams, and choose technologies. This skill provides CTO-ready frameworks, calculators, templates, and metrics guidance for structured technical leadership decisions.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)

🥇 83 Gold

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Review the Skillstore skill "cto-advisor" from https://skillstore.io/skills/alirezarezvani-cto-advisor.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/alirezarezvani-cto-advisor/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

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Test it

Using "cto-advisor". Assess technical debt for a legacy commerce platform with weak tests and manual deployments.

Expected outcome:

Overall debt level: medium-high, with security and infrastructure as top risks.
Recommended focus: CI/CD automation, vulnerability scanning, and test coverage gates.
Suggested capacity: dedicate 25 percent of sprint capacity for two quarters.

Using "cto-advisor". Plan growth from 25 to 75 engineers over four quarters.

Expected outcome:

Hiring should emphasize engineering managers, tech leads, senior engineers, and DevOps capacity first.
Main risks are onboarding load, communication overhead, and culture dilution.
A phased structure with platform, product, infrastructure, and data teams is recommended.

Using "cto-advisor". Create an ADR for choosing Kubernetes over ECS and Nomad.

Expected outcome:

Decision context: microservices need automated deployment, scaling, and high availability.
Chosen option: Kubernetes, because of ecosystem maturity and multi-cloud portability.
Consequences: higher operational complexity, mitigated through managed Kubernetes and training.

Security Audit

Safe

v6 • 7/6/2026 Open versioned report

All static findings were adjudicated as false positives caused by Markdown fences, local file references, and leadership terminology. Reviewed scripts perform local calculations and report formatting; no subprocess, network, credential access, or prompt injection evidence was found.

Files scanned

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Lines analyzed

Review items

False positives ignored

Risk Factors

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No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.

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APA citation

alirezarezvani. (2026). cto-advisor security audit report (audit version 6) [Author version 1.0.0]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/alirezarezvani-cto-advisor/audits/6

BibTeX citation

@techreport{alirezarezvani-alirezarezvani-cto-advisor-2026,
  author = {alirezarezvani},
  title = {cto-advisor security audit report (audit version 6)},
  institution = {Skillstore},
  year = {2026},
  number = {6},
  url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/alirezarezvani-cto-advisor/audits/6},
  note = {Author version 1.0.0}
}

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message: "If you use this Skill, cite its author and this versioned security audit report."
title: "cto-advisor security audit report (audit version 6)"
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authors:
  - name: "alirezarezvani"
date-released: "2026-07-06"
url: "https://skillstore.io/skills/alirezarezvani-cto-advisor/audits/6"
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    value: "skillstore:alirezarezvani-cto-advisor:audit:6"
    description: "Skillstore immutable audit report identifier"

Compare variants

2 installable variants

Each author remains a separate installable skill. The recommended variant is ranked by Skillstore evidence.

Why this variant is first

Higher Skillstore usage

Author / source Skillstore Score Evidence Confidence Skillstore usage Updated

davila7 Recommended

davila7-cto-advisor

Skillstore Score 83

Evidence Confidence High

Skillstore usage 12

Updated

2026-08-21

alirezarezvani Current

alirezarezvani-cto-advisor

Skillstore Score 83

Evidence Confidence High

Skillstore usage 11

Updated

2026-08-21

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High

Architecture

100

Maintainability

Content

Community

Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Plan Engineering Growth

Create a hiring sequence, role mix, budget estimate, and team structure for a scaling engineering organization.

Build Metrics Governance

Select DORA, quality, delivery, and team health metrics with safeguards against metric gaming.

Document Architecture Choices

Use ADR templates to compare options, record trade-offs, and communicate decisions to stakeholders.

Try These Prompts

Assess Technical Debt

Assess our main application for technical debt. Ask me for architecture, code quality, infrastructure, security, and performance details before recommending priorities.

Create Team Scaling Plan

Create a team scaling plan from our current engineering team to our target headcount. Include role gaps, quarterly hiring, budget risks, and onboarding constraints.

Compare Technology Options

Help me evaluate three technology options for a critical platform decision. Score technical, business, and operational criteria, then summarize trade-offs.

Prepare CTO Operating Review

Prepare a CTO operating review covering technical debt, engineering metrics, architecture decisions, hiring risks, vendor strategy, and next-quarter priorities.

Best Practices

Provide current metrics, team size, business goals, and constraints before asking for recommendations.
Use the calculators as planning aids, then validate assumptions with finance, HR, and engineering leads.
Pair every architecture or vendor recommendation with an ADR and a measurable success metric.

Avoid

Do not use generic salary, velocity, or team ratio assumptions as final operating plans.
Do not optimize one metric without checking quality, reliability, and team health impacts.
Do not treat framework output as a substitute for stakeholder alignment and risk review.