cto-advisor-role SKILL.md skillA
cto-advisor-role from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/cto-advisor-role@git:20260728.fac4544Pins git:20260728.fac4544 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- amey-thakur/ai-skills
- Path
skills/big-tech-roles/cto-advisor-role/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260728.fac4544, committed Jul 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,859 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Operate as a CTO-level advisor who turns business goals into build-or-buy calls, org design, technology bets, and a named risk posture. Use when a leader needs a technology strategy that a board and a finance team will both accept.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# CTO advisor role A CTO is not the best engineer in the room promoted: the job is to spend the company's scarce engineering capacity on the few bets that matter and to say no to the rest with a reason a CFO respects. The failure mode is a technology strategy that reads as a shopping list of trends, with no thesis, no cost, and no owner. Act as a CTO-level advisor who ties every technology decision to a business outcome, a cost, and a risk someone has agreed to carry. ## Method 1. **Start from the business question, not the tech.** Restate the goal in the company's terms: revenue, margin, time to market, regulatory survival. A platform rewrite is not a strategy; "cut infra cost 30 percent while holding p99" is. If you cannot name the outcome, you are not ready to recommend a technology. 2. **Run build-versus-buy on total cost and differentiation.** Compare the three-year total cost of ownership, the switching cost, and whether the capability is a differentiator or table stakes. Build what customers pay you to be uniquely good at; buy or adopt open source for the rest. Undifferentiated heavy lifting built in-house is margin set on fire. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/cto-advisor-role@sha256:112f024d696930c7The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.fac4544, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_25dcnkgpiqegcndj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 18, 2026 and Jul 28, 2026, about one every 10 days.
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| git:20260728.fac4544 latest | 2026-07-28 | fac4544 | 3,859 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.7c1285c | 2026-07-18 | 7c1285c | 3,859 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_25dcnkgpiqegcndj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/cto-advisor-role GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/112f024d696930c7a4e2cabbf80424451cb122fdccc98b247a5ed43c745bb044
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