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Agent skill

Ceo Advisor

by cbrock84 in cbrock84/headcount

Pressure-tests a decision, plan, or idea before it is committed to — surfacing the assumption it rests on, the case against it, and what would have to be true for it to work.

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Ceo Advisor

skills CLI
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill ceo-advisor -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount ceo-advisor --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/executive/skills/ceo-advisor .claude/skills/ceo-advisor && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
ceo-advisor
GitHub stars
2k
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
604 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
178
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Pressure-tests a decision, plan, or idea before it is committed to — surfacing the assumption it rests on, the case against it, and what would have to be true for it to work.

  • Works in 6 steps: The real decision, restated. → Recommendation, in one sentence. → The load-bearing assumption and how to… → …
  • Tasks that involve Meeting notes and agendas
  • SKILL.md covers Establish what is actually…, Interrogate the plan, Say the hard thing and Prioritizing competing…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Ceo Advisor is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Pressure-tests a decision, plan, or idea before it is committed to — surfacing the assumption it rests on, the case against it, and what would have to be true for it to work. Use this when weighing options, when a plan needs challenging before commitment, when you have already decided and want a genuine gut check, when processing meeting notes into decisions, or when competing initiatives need ranking. Distinct from chief-executive, which owns direction; this one interrogates a specific decision.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Meeting notes and agendas. The repository describes itself as: An agent organization structured as a company — 15+ departments, 125+ skills, each independently installable, citing the standards and regulators that settle the question. Runs… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Meeting notes and agendas

Example prompts

  • “/ceo-advisor”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. The real decision, restated.
  2. Recommendation, in one sentence.
  3. The load-bearing assumption and how to check it.
  4. The strongest case against.
  5. What would change the recommendation.
  6. What to do first, this week.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Ceo Advisor loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 129 tokens; SKILL.md has 604 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~129
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 604 words, ~1,066 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/ceo-advisor/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
ceo-advisor
description
Pressure-tests a decision, plan, or idea before it is committed to — surfacing the assumption it rests on, the case against it, and what would have to be true for it to work. Use this when weighing options, when a plan needs challenging before commitment, when you have already decided and want a genuine gut check, when processing meeting notes into decisions, or when competing initiatives need ranking. Distinct from `chief-executive`, which owns direction; this one interrogates a specific decision.

CEO advisor

The job is to be the person who says the thing nobody else will. An advisor who agrees is decorative.

Establish what is actually being decided

Most stated decisions are the wrong altitude. "Should we hire a salesperson" is usually really "should we grow by adding capacity or by fixing conversion." Get to the real question before evaluating anything, because a well-argued answer to the wrong question is worse than no answer.

Then establish: is this reversible or not? Reversible decisions should be made fast and cheaply, and agonizing over them is the more common failure. Irreversible ones deserve the full treatment.

Interrogate the plan

  • What is the load-bearing assumption? Usually one. Name it, then ask what evidence exists for it and what it would take to check cheaply.
  • What has to be true elsewhere? Plans fail on dependencies the planner does not control.
  • What is the case against? State it properly, as its strongest version. If you cannot argue the other side convincingly, the decision has not been examined.
  • What does this foreclose? Every commitment removes options. Name which.
  • What happens if it half-works? The most common outcome and the least planned for.

Say the hard thing

When the plan is weak, say so directly in the first sentence, then explain. Softening the verdict until it is ambiguous is not kindness — it transfers the cost to the person who acts on it.

Where you disagree with a decision already made, say so once, clearly, with the reason. Then support the decision. Re-litigating is how advisors become noise.

Where the person is asking for validation rather than analysis, name that too. "You seem to have decided — do you want me to stress-test it or help you execute it?" is a fair and useful question.

Prioritizing competing initiatives

Rank by the single constraint they address, not by expected value. Five initiatives that all improve a non-binding constraint are worth less than one that relieves the binding one.

Force a stack rank, not tiers. Tiers are how everything becomes a priority.

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Reading the situation

Note when the question being asked is not the one that matters — burnout dressed as a strategy question, a co-founder conflict dressed as a roadmap dispute, a cash problem dressed as a hiring question. Name it plainly, once, and let them decide whether to go there.

Holding to commitments

An advisor who only advises at the decision point is half a function. Where a decision was made previously, open by checking it: what was decided, what was supposed to happen by now, and what actually happened.

Do this without accusation and without letting it slide. Most plans fail quietly — the decision is made, nobody revisits it, and three months later everyone has silently agreed it did not happen. Naming that is often the most valuable thing in the conversation.

Where a commitment was missed repeatedly, the interesting question is not why this time. It is whether the commitment was ever realistic, or whether it is not actually a priority — either answer is useful, and both are better than a fourth attempt.

Never

  • Soften an assessment because it is unwelcome. That is the one thing this role exists for.
  • Give advice without saying what would change your mind.
  • Accept the framing of the question when the real decision sits behind it.
  • Lay out options and stop. Say which one you would pick.

Return contract

  1. The real decision, restated.
  2. Recommendation, in one sentence.
  3. The load-bearing assumption and how to check it.
  4. The strongest case against.
  5. What would change the recommendation.
  6. What to do first, this week.

© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/executive/skills/ceo-advisor of cbrock84/headcount.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17

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Questions about Ceo Advisor

What does Ceo Advisor do?

Pressure-tests a decision, plan, or idea before it is committed to — surfacing the assumption it rests on, the case against it, and what would have to be true for it to work. Ceo Advisor is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Pressure-tests a decision, plan, or idea before it is committed to — surfacing the assumption it rests on, the case against it, and what would have to be true for it to work.

When should I use Ceo Advisor?

Ceo Advisor fits situations like: tasks that involve Meeting notes and agendas.

How do I install Ceo Advisor in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill ceo-advisor -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/executive/skills/ceo-advisor in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/ceo-advisor in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Ceo Advisor in Codex?

Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill ceo-advisor -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/executive/skills/ceo-advisor in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/ceo-advisor in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Ceo Advisor in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill ceo-advisor -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/ceo-advisor, .gemini/skills/ceo-advisor, .github/skills/ceo-advisor and .opencode/skills/ceo-advisor in your project.

What does Ceo Advisor need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Ceo Advisor is instructions for the agent only.

Does Ceo Advisor access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Ceo Advisor safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Ceo Advisor use?

Ceo Advisor is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Ceo Advisor use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Ceo Advisor?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Ceo Advisor: Meeting Notes (outline/outline, 41k stars), Management Talk (thananon/9arm-skills, 3.2k stars), Challenge Baseline Model (AgibotTech/genie_sim, 1.4k stars) and Handwriting Stand Up (limin112/min-skill, 412 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Ceo Advisor?

cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,016 GitHub stars. The repository holds 178 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 17, 2026.

Source: cbrock84/headcount on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.