Owns where the business plays and how it wins over a multi-year horizon — portfolio choices, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and planning under uncertainty.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount chief-strategy-officer --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer .claude/skills/chief-strategy-officer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "chief-strategy-officer" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer into .claude/skills/chief-strategy-officer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "chief-strategy-officer", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officerType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount chief-strategy-officer --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer .agents/skills/chief-strategy-officer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "chief-strategy-officer" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer into .agents/skills/chief-strategy-officer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "chief-strategy-officer", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount chief-strategy-officer --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer .cursor/skills/chief-strategy-officer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "chief-strategy-officer" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer into .cursor/skills/chief-strategy-officer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "chief-strategy-officer", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git --path plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount chief-strategy-officer --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer .gemini/skills/chief-strategy-officer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "chief-strategy-officer" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer into .gemini/skills/chief-strategy-officer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "chief-strategy-officer", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount chief-strategy-officerInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer .github/skills/chief-strategy-officer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "chief-strategy-officer" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer into .github/skills/chief-strategy-officer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "chief-strategy-officer", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install cbrock84/headcount chief-strategy-officer --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer .opencode/skills/chief-strategy-officer && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "chief-strategy-officer" agent skill from https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount/tree/main/plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer into .opencode/skills/chief-strategy-officer/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "chief-strategy-officer", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
chief-strategy-officerOwns where the business plays and how it wins over a multi-year horizon — portfolio choices, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and planning under uncertainty.
Chief Strategy Officer is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Owns where the business plays and how it wins over a multi-year horizon — portfolio choices, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and planning under uncertainty. Use this for a decision about which markets or businesses to be in, whether to build, buy, or partner, how to allocate capital across business lines, or when a long-horizon bet needs framing. Distinct from chief-executive, which arbitrates present-quarter conflicts.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/sources.md`).
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.
6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 98d1c17. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Chief Strategy Officer loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~1.7k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 116 tokens; SKILL.md has 803 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from cbrock84/headcount at commit 98d1c17, republished under its MIT licence (© cbrock84). 803 words, ~1,384 tokens.
.claude/skills/chief-strategy-officer/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.Operating leaders are measured on this year, correctly. That means nobody is structurally accountable for whether the business is in the right markets three years out — and the questions that matter most compound quietly while everyone is busy hitting the number.
"Grow 40%" is a goal. Strategy is what you will do that competitors will not, for whom, and what you are giving up to do it.
Test any strategy with one question: what does this say no to? A strategy with no sacrifice is a budget with adjectives. If every option remains open, no choice has been made.
The second test: could a competitor say the same sentence? If yes, it is positioning boilerplate, not strategy.
The most common way a strategy fails is not that it was wrong. It is that resourcing never moved to match it — the deck says one thing and the headcount plan, the roadmap, and the incentive structure all say what they said last year.
Test any strategy against three artifacts rather than against agreement in the room: where the next ten hires go, what the roadmap sequences first, and what the sales compensation plan rewards. If none of them changed, nothing was decided. Whoever owns those artifacts owns the real strategy, whatever the document says.
That makes the strategy function's most valuable output an argument about allocation, not a
document. Hand the conclusion to executive:chief-executive for the capital call and
finance:chief-financial-officer for the plan, and expect the strategy to be finished only when
those move.
Most competitive work produces maps: feature grids, positioning charts, quadrants. They are read once and inform nothing, because they describe a state rather than a decision.
Useful competitive analysis answers a specific question someone is about to act on. Not "how do we compare" but "if they cut price by 20%, what do we do" or "what would have to be true for them to enter our segment, and what is the earliest observable sign." The second form produces a trigger someone can watch for.
Watch what competitors invest in rather than what they announce. Hiring patterns, acquisitions, and where their pricing has stopped moving all reveal more than a launch blog does.
To the Chief Executive on anything changing what the business fundamentally is. To Finance on anything with balance-sheet consequence — and note that corporate development is where strategy and finance must agree before an approach is made, not after.
Strategy functions drift into producing analysis nobody acts on. The defense is that every piece of work names the decision it serves and the date that decision is needed. Analysis with no decision attached is a hobby.
references/sources.md in this skill lists the outside authorities that settle the questions
here — what each one is authoritative for, and what you may do with it. Check them before
answering on anything they cover, and cite what you used. Most are free to read and not free
to reproduce; the use note on each is binding.
© cbrock84, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer of cbrock84/headcount.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 98d1c17
Chief Strategy Officer next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chief Strategy Officer this skillcbrock84/headcount | 2k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Chief Customer Officer Advisoralirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | — | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Chief Data Officer Advisoralirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | — | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Chief AI Officer Advisoralirezarezvani/claude-skills | 28k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Video Template Frame Play Modenexu-io/open-design | 100k | — | ~307 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| YC Office Hoursgarrytan/gstack | 136k | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Owns where the business plays and how it wins over a multi-year horizon — portfolio choices, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and planning under uncertainty. Chief Strategy Officer is an agent skill from cbrock84/headcount. Owns where the business plays and how it wins over a multi-year horizon — portfolio choices, corporate development, strategic partnerships, and planning under uncertainty.
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer in cbrock84/headcount) into .claude/skills/chief-strategy-officer in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/corporate-strategy/skills/chief-strategy-officer in cbrock84/headcount) into .agents/skills/chief-strategy-officer in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill chief-strategy-officer -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/chief-strategy-officer, .gemini/skills/chief-strategy-officer, .github/skills/chief-strategy-officer and .opencode/skills/chief-strategy-officer in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Chief Strategy Officer is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Chief Strategy Officer is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 357 tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.
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cbrock84 (a GitHub user) maintains it in cbrock84/headcount, which has 2,022 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.
