Skills cto-advisor

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cto-advisor

Name: cto-advisor
Author: davila7

v1.0.0 Content revision r1 Safe ⚙️ External commands

Guide CTO Engineering Decisions

Engineering leaders need clear frameworks for architecture, metrics, hiring, and technical debt. This skill turns CTO planning questions into structured assessments, templates, and practical next steps.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)

🥇 83 Gold

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Review the Skillstore skill "cto-advisor" from https://skillstore.io/skills/davila7-cto-advisor.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/davila7-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". We have 25 engineers and plan to reach 75 in four quarters.

Expected outcome:

A quarterly hiring timeline, role priorities, estimated budget, management layers, communication risk, and onboarding recommendations.

Using "cto-advisor". Our monolith slows delivery and lacks test coverage.

Expected outcome:

A technical debt assessment with category scores, risk level, effort estimate, and the top remediation actions.

Using "cto-advisor". We need to choose a monitoring platform.

Expected outcome:

A technology evaluation plan with weighted criteria, proof-of-concept scope, risk assessment, and decision documentation guidance.

Security Audit

Safe

v9 • 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

All static blocker findings are false positives caused by business and architecture terms in guidance text. The shell-related findings are markdown examples for bundled local Python calculators, with no network, subprocess, or secret access. No prompt injection or exfiltration intent was found.

Files scanned

2,442

Lines analyzed

Review items

False positives ignored

Risk Factors

⚙️ External commands (19)

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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.

Audited by: codex View Audit History →

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APA citation

davila7. (2026). cto-advisor security audit report (audit version 9) [Author version 1.0.0]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/davila7-cto-advisor/audits/9

BibTeX citation

@techreport{davila7-davila7-cto-advisor-2026,
  author = {davila7},
  title = {cto-advisor security audit report (audit version 9)},
  institution = {Skillstore},
  year = {2026},
  number = {9},
  url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/davila7-cto-advisor/audits/9},
  note = {Author version 1.0.0}
}

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Compare variants

2 installable variants

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Why this variant is first

Higher Skillstore usage

Author / source Skillstore Score Evidence Confidence Skillstore usage Updated

davila7 Recommended Current

davila7-cto-advisor

Skillstore Score 83

Evidence Confidence High

Skillstore usage 12

Updated

2026-08-21

alirezarezvani

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

CTO Planning Review

Prepare a quarterly engineering review covering debt, metrics, architecture choices, and staffing priorities.

Startup Scaling Plan

Estimate hiring needs, management layers, and onboarding risks before expanding an engineering team.

Architecture Governance

Create ADRs and compare technology options with consistent decision criteria.

Try These Prompts

Assess Technical Debt

Assess our technical debt. Ask for missing system details, then create a prioritized reduction plan with effort estimates.

Plan Team Scaling

Create a hiring plan for growing from 12 to 30 engineers over four quarters. Include roles, risks, and budget ranges.

Create An ADR

Draft an ADR for choosing our API gateway. Compare managed, open source, and custom options using the provided framework.

Build CTO Operating Review

Create a board-ready engineering operating review. Combine DORA metrics, team health, technical debt, staffing, risks, and next-quarter priorities.

Best Practices

Provide real team size, role mix, delivery metrics, and business constraints.
Use outputs as decision support, then validate assumptions with responsible leaders.
Record major technology choices as ADRs with clear consequences and review dates.

Avoid

Do not treat generated budgets or staffing plans as final financial approvals.
Do not optimize one metric without checking quality, reliability, and team health.
Do not use ADR templates to justify fixed decisions without evidence.