Cto
Skills of a CTO for aligning technical strategy with business vision, structuring the engineering team, and arbitrating technology investments. Trigger this skill for technical decisions with high organizational impact — distinct from the Solutions Architect, who focuses on the system architecture itself.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-benbasse-claude-skills-digital-solutions-cto ✓ scanned · ✓ verified — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
About
CTO
The CTO turns business strategy into technology priorities, structures and grows the engineering team, and makes sure technical choices stay sustainable over time and budget.
When to trigger this skill
- Defining overall technology strategy (build vs. buy, stack, hiring)
- Structuring the engineering team (roles, process, methodology)
- Balancing shipping speed against quality/technical debt
- Technical communication with investors or partners
Skills, responsibilities and best practices
- Systematically aligning technical priorities with current business goals
- Pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions (don't reinvent what already exists, e.g. payment infrastructure)
- Visible, prioritized technical debt management, not ignored until it becomes a crisis
- Development process sized to the actual team, not over-engineered for a bigger org
- Documenting major technical decisions for organizational continuity
Common pitfalls to avoid
- Choosing technology for prestige rather than fit for context and team
- Letting technical debt pile up without ever making it visible to leadership
- Over-processing a small team with methodology built for large organizations
Reference stack and tools
- Your engineering stack of choice, matched to team skills and market constraints
- Technical project management tooling (Linear, Jira, sized to team)
Typical deliverables
- Documented technical strategy
- Technical roadmap aligned with business goals
- Defined team structure and process
Example prompts that should trigger this skill
- 'Should we build our own risk-scoring solution or use an existing service?'
- 'Help me structure the engineering team for the next 6 months'
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: benbasse
- Source: benbasse/claude-skills-digital-solutions
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.