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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.

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The canonical home for this skill is cto-advisor in alirezarezvani/claude-skills

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Quality

Content

85%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The content is highly actionable with clear, validated workflows and concrete examples, but its progressive-disclosure structure is undermined by references to bundle files that are not present in the skill.

Suggestions

Add the missing referenced files (references/technology_evaluation_framework.md, references/engineering_metrics.md, references/architecture_decision_records.md and the scripts/*.py tools) to the bundle, or remove the inline references.

Trim aphoristic one-liners and the 'Key Questions a CTO Asks' / 'Red Flags' lists to tighten the token budget without losing the actionable content.

Make the dangling reference paths concrete by either inlining the essential content or confirming the files exist before citing them.

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Conciseness

Largely efficient with dense tables and actionable lists, but some sections lean on aphoristic padding ('Every vendor is a dependency. Every dependency is a risk.') and discursive 'Key Questions' / Red Flags lists that could be trimmed.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides executable commands ('python scripts/tech_debt_analyzer.py --output report.json'), concrete prioritization formulas, example inventory tables, and an ADR template covering the common cases.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Multi-step workflows (Tech Debt Assessment, ADR Creation) are clearly sequenced with explicit validation checklists and error-recovery feedback ('Validate before presenting to stakeholders', ADR validation checkpoint).

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

The body signals one-level-deep references to three references/*.md files and scripts/*.py, but those bundle files do not exist in the skill directory, so the navigation is broken rather than usable.

3 / 5

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Description

95%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, well-structured description that explicitly pairs concrete capabilities with a comprehensive 'Use when' trigger clause. It is highly specific, complete, and distinct from neighboring skills.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete capability areas ('assessing technical debt, scaling engineering teams, evaluating technologies, making architecture decisions, establishing engineering metrics'), though 'Technical leadership guidance' is slightly abstract rather than a concrete action verb.

4 / 5

Completeness

Clearly answers 'what' (technical leadership guidance for teams, architecture, strategy) and an explicit 'Use when...' clause enumerating concrete trigger phrases.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Comprehensive natural trigger coverage with synonyms ('CTO, tech debt, technical debt, team scaling, architecture decisions, technology evaluation, engineering metrics, DORA metrics, technology strategy') that users would plausibly say.

5 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a distinct CTO-leadership niche with specific triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills, minimizing conflict risk.

5 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 10 missing

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Repository
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