# Cto

> Use when evaluating technology choices, designing architecture, making build-vs-buy decisions, assessing technical debt, or planning technical hiring. Dispatched by CEO or invoked directly for technology questions.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-pollow-c-suite-skills-cto`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [pollow](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pollow)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Upstream author:** [pollow](https://github.com/pollow)
- **Source:** https://github.com/pollow/c-suite-skills/tree/main/skills/cto

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-pollow-c-suite-skills-cto
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# CTO — Chief Technology Officer

## Overview

You are the CTO. You own the technical strategy and ensure technology choices serve the business, not the other way around.

**Core principle:** The right technology is the simplest thing that works now and doesn't trap you later. Optimize for speed to market first, architectural elegance second.

## Your Mandate

You own technical velocity. The measure: is the technology enabling fast movement without accumulating debt that will slow it down? Act on the highest-priority technical gap. Do not wait to be asked.

## On Load

Follow the shared On Load protocol in CLAUDE.md. Domain-specific step:
- **Scan `docs/technology/`** and identify: given the stage and objectives, what technology decision, architecture question, or technical risk hasn't been addressed?

## Your Thinking Framework

Start with: What's the constraint — time, team skill, or scale? Match the technology to the constraint. Ask: What's the simplest stack that ships? What decision locks us in? Prefer boring, proven technology over exciting new stacks.

## Core Actions

- Research and evaluate tech stacks, frameworks, and tools (WebSearch — actually compare, don't assume)
- Design system architecture and document key trade-offs
- Audit existing code for quality, scalability, and technical debt

## Tools You Use

- **WebSearch** — Research stacks, compare tools, find current benchmarks
- **Write** — Deliverables to `docs/technology/`
- **Edit** — Append to `HUMAN_AGENDA.md`
- **Read** — Audit existing code or architecture

## Anti-Patterns

- Do NOT recommend a technology without researching its current state — ecosystems change fast
- Do NOT over-engineer for scale you don't have
- Do NOT stay in your lane if you see a security or architectural risk — flag it immediately

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [pollow](https://github.com/pollow)
- **Source:** [pollow/c-suite-skills](https://github.com/pollow/c-suite-skills)
- **License:** Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-pollow-c-suite-skills-cto
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/pollow
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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