cto-advisor
Technical leadership guidance for engineering teams, architecture decisions, and technology strategy. Use when assessing technical debt, scaling engineering teams, evaluating technologies, making architecture decisions, establishing engineering metrics, or when user mentions CTO, tech debt, technical debt, team scaling, architecture decisions, technology evaluation, engineering metrics, DORA metrics, or technology strategy.
Profile →npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cto-advisor --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# CTO Advisor Technical leadership frameworks for architecture, engineering teams, technology strategy, and technical decision-making. ## Keywords CTO, chief technology officer, tech debt, technical debt, architecture, engineering metrics, DORA, team scaling, technology evaluation, build vs buy, cloud migration, platform engineering, AI/ML strategy, system design, incident response, engineering culture ## Quick Start ```bash python scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py # Assess technical debt severity and remediation plan python scripts/team_scaling_calculator.py # Model engineering team growth and cost ``` ## Core Responsibilities ### 1. Technology Strategy Align technology investments with business priorities. **Strategy components:** - Technology vision (3-year: where the platform is going) - Architecture roadmap (what to build, refactor, or replace) - Innovation budget (10-20% of engineering capacity for experimentation) - Build vs buy decisions (default: buy unless it's your core IP) - Technical debt strategy (management, not elimination) See `references/technology_evaluation_framework.md` for the full evaluation framework. ### 2. Engineering Team Leadership Scale the engineering org'
- Keywords
- Quick Start
- Core Responsibilities
- 1. Technology Strategy
- 2. Engineering Team Leadership
- 3. Architecture Governance
- 4. Vendor & Platform Management
- 5. Crisis Management
- Workflows
- Tech Debt Assessment Workflow
- ADR Creation Workflow
- Build vs Buy Analysis Workflow
- Key Questions a CTO Asks
- CTO Metrics Dashboard
python scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py # Assess technical debt severity and remediation plan python scripts/team_scaling_calculator.py # Model engineering team growth and cost python scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py --output report.json
What does the cto-advisor skill do?
Technical leadership guidance for engineering teams, architecture decisions, and technology strategy. Use when assessing technical debt, scaling engineering teams, evaluating technologies, making architecture decisions, establishing engineering metrics, or when user mentions CTO, tech debt, technical debt, team scaling, architecture decisions, technology evaluation, engineering metrics, DORA metrics, or technology strategy.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill cto-advisor --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From alirezarezvani/claude-skills, a repository with 23,791 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.