feat: C-Suite expansion — 8 new executive advisory roles (2→10) (#264)
* feat: C-Suite expansion — 8 new executive advisory roles
Add COO, CPO, CMO, CFO, CRO, CISO, CHRO advisors and Executive Mentor.
Expands C-level advisory from 2 to 10 roles with 74 total files.
Each role includes:
- SKILL.md (lean, <5KB, ~1200 tokens for context efficiency)
- Reference docs (loaded on demand, not at startup)
- Python analysis scripts (stdlib only, runnable CLI)
Executive Mentor features /em: slash commands (challenge, board-prep,
hard-call, stress-test, postmortem) with devil's advocate agent.
21 Python tools, 24 reference frameworks, 28,379 total lines.
All SKILL.md files combined: ~17K tokens (8.5% of 200K context window).
Badge: 88 → 116 skills
* feat: C-Suite orchestration layer + 18 complementary skills
ORCHESTRATION (new):
- cs-onboard: Founder interview → company-context.md
- chief-of-staff: Routing, synthesis, inter-agent orchestration
- board-meeting: 6-phase multi-agent deliberation protocol
- decision-logger: Two-layer memory (raw transcripts + approved decisions)
- agent-protocol: Inter-agent invocation with loop prevention
- context-engine: Company context loading + anonymization
CROSS-CUTTING CAPABILITIES (new):
- board-deck-builder: Board/investor update assembly
- scenario-war-room: Cascading multi-variable what-if modeling
- competitive-intel: Systematic competitor tracking + battlecards
- org-health-diagnostic: Cross-functional health scoring (8 dimensions)
- ma-playbook: M&A strategy (acquiring + being acquired)
- intl-expansion: International market entry frameworks
CULTURE & COLLABORATION (new):
- culture-architect: Values → behaviors, culture code, health assessment
- company-os: EOS/Scaling Up operating system selection + implementation
- founder-coach: Founder development, delegation, blind spots
- strategic-alignment: Strategy cascade, silo detection, alignment scoring
- change-management: ADKAR-based change rollout framework
- internal-narrative: One story across employees/investors/customers
UPGRADES TO EXISTING ROLES:
- All 10 roles get reasoning technique directives
- All 10 roles get company-context.md integration
- All 10 roles get board meeting isolation rules
- CEO gets stage-adaptive temporal horizons (seed→C)
Key design decisions:
- Two-layer memory prevents hallucinated consensus from rejected ideas
- Phase 2 isolation: agents think independently before cross-examination
- Executive Mentor (The Critic) sees all perspectives, others don't
- 25 Python tools total (stdlib only, no dependencies)
52 new files, 10 modified, 10,862 new lines.
Total C-suite ecosystem: 134 files, 39,131 lines.
* fix: connect all dots — Chief of Staff routes to all 28 skills
- Added complementary skills registry to routing-matrix.md
- Chief of Staff SKILL.md now lists all 28 skills in ecosystem
- Added integration tables to scenario-war-room and competitive-intel
- Badge: 116 → 134 skills
- README: C-Level Advisory count 10 → 28
Quality audit passed:
✅ All 10 roles: company-context, reasoning, isolation, invocation
✅ All 6 phases in board meeting
✅ Two-layer memory with DO_NOT_RESURFACE
✅ Loop prevention (no self-invoke, max depth 2, no circular)
✅ All /em: commands present
✅ All complementary skills cross-reference roles
✅ Chief of Staff routes to every skill in ecosystem
* refactor: CEO + CTO advisors upgraded to C-suite parity
Both roles now match the structural standard of all new roles:
- CEO: 11.7KB → 6.8KB SKILL.md (heavy content stays in references)
- CTO: 10KB → 7.2KB SKILL.md (heavy content stays in references)
Added to both:
- Integration table (who they work with and when)
- Key diagnostic questions
- Structured metrics dashboard table
- Consistent section ordering (Keywords → Quick Start → Responsibilities → Questions → Metrics → Red Flags → Integration → Reasoning → Context)
CEO additions:
- Stage-adaptive temporal horizons (seed=3m/6m/12m → B+=1y/3y/5y)
- Cross-references to culture-architect and board-deck-builder
CTO additions:
- Key Questions section (7 diagnostic questions)
- Structured metrics table (DORA + debt + team + architecture + cost)
- Cross-references to all peer roles
All 10 roles now pass structural parity: ✅ Keywords ✅ QuickStart ✅ Questions ✅ Metrics ✅ RedFlags ✅ Integration
* feat: add proactive triggers + output artifacts to all 10 roles
Every C-suite role now specifies:
- Proactive Triggers: 'surface these without being asked' — context-driven
early warnings that make advisors proactive, not reactive
- Output Artifacts: concrete deliverables per request type (what you ask →
what you get)
CEO: runway alerts, board prep triggers, strategy review nudges
CTO: deploy frequency monitoring, tech debt thresholds, bus factor flags
COO: blocker detection, scaling threshold warnings, cadence gaps
CPO: retention curve monitoring, portfolio dog detection, research gaps
CMO: CAC trend monitoring, positioning gaps, budget staleness
CFO: runway forecasting, burn multiple alerts, scenario planning gaps
CRO: NRR monitoring, pipeline coverage, pricing review triggers
CISO: audit overdue alerts, compliance gaps, vendor risk
CHRO: retention risk, comp band gaps, org scaling thresholds
Executive Mentor: board prep triggers, groupthink detection, hard call surfacing
This transforms the C-suite from reactive advisors into proactive partners.
* feat: User Communication Standard — structured output for all roles
Defines 3 output formats in agent-protocol/SKILL.md:
1. Standard Output: Bottom Line → What → Why → How to Act → Risks → Your Decision
2. Proactive Alert: What I Noticed → Why It Matters → Action → Urgency (🔴🟡⚪)
3. Board Meeting: Decision Required → Perspectives → Agree/Disagree → Critic → Action Items
10 non-negotiable rules:
- Bottom line first, always
- Results and decisions only (no process narration)
- What + Why + How for every finding
- Actions have owners and deadlines ('we should consider' is banned)
- Decisions framed as options with trade-offs
- Founder is the highest authority — roles recommend, founder decides
- Risks are concrete (if X → Y, costs $Z)
- Max 5 bullets per section
- No jargon without explanation
- Silence over fabricated updates
All 10 roles reference this standard.
Chief of Staff enforces it as a quality gate.
Board meeting Phase 4 uses the Board Meeting Output format.
* feat: Internal Quality Loop — verification before delivery
No role presents to the founder without passing verification:
Step 1: Self-Verification (every role, every time)
- Source attribution: where did each data point come from?
- Assumption audit: [VERIFIED] vs [ASSUMED] tags on every finding
- Confidence scoring: 🟢 high / 🟡 medium / 🔴 low per finding
- Contradiction check against company-context + decision log
- 'So what?' test: every finding needs a business consequence
Step 2: Peer Verification (cross-functional)
- Financial claims → CFO validates math
- Revenue projections → CRO validates pipeline backing
- Technical feasibility → CTO validates
- People/hiring impact → CHRO validates
- Skip for single-domain, low-stakes questions
Step 3: Critic Pre-Screen (high-stakes only)
- Irreversible decisions, >20% runway impact, strategy changes
- Executive Mentor finds weakest point before founder sees it
- Suspicious consensus triggers mandatory pre-screen
Step 4: Course Correction (after founder feedback)
- Approve → log + assign actions
- Modify → re-verify changed parts
- Reject → DO_NOT_RESURFACE + learn why
- 30/60/90 day post-decision review
Board meeting contributions now require self-verified format with
confidence tags and source attribution on every finding.
* fix: resolve PR review issues 1, 4, and minor observation
Issue 1: c-level-advisor/CLAUDE.md — completely rewritten
- Was: 2 skills (CEO, CTO only), dated Nov 2025
- Now: full 28-skill ecosystem map with architecture diagram,
all roles/orchestration/cross-cutting/culture skills listed,
design decisions, integration with other domains
Issue 4: Root CLAUDE.md — updated all stale counts
- 87 → 134 skills across all 3 references
- C-Level: 2 → 33 (10 roles + 5 mentor commands + 18 complementary)
- Tool count: 160+ → 185+
- Reference count: 200+ → 250+
Minor observation: Documented plugin.json convention
- Explained in c-level-advisor/CLAUDE.md that only executive-mentor
has plugin.json because only it has slash commands (/em: namespace)
- Other skills are invoked by name through Chief of Staff or directly
Also fixed: README.md 88+ → 134 in two places (first line + skills section)
* fix: update all plugin/index registrations for 28-skill C-suite
1. c-level-advisor/.claude-plugin/plugin.json — v2.0.0
- Was: 2 skills, generic description
- Now: all 28 skills listed with descriptions, all 25 scripts,
namespace 'cs', full ecosystem description
2. .codex/skills-index.json — added 18 complementary skills
- Was: 10 roles only
- Now: 28 total c-level entries (10 roles + 6 orchestration +
6 cross-cutting + 6 culture)
- Each with full description for skill discovery
3. .claude-plugin/marketplace.json — updated c-level-skills entry
- Was: generic 2-skill description
- Now: v2.0.0, full 28-skill ecosystem description,
skills_count: 28, scripts_count: 25
* feat: add root SKILL.md for c-level-advisor ClawHub package
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Co-authored-by: Leo <leo@openclaw.ai>
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