What problem does it solve?
During brainstorming and planning sessions, technical implications and architecture risks are often overlooked or scattered across reviews, leading to unforeseen scope, security, or scalability issues. The cto skill consolidates cross-cutting technical assessment, identifies affected components, and surfaces architecture decisions so teams can make informed planning choices.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Cross-cutting Technical Assessment: Identify technical risks, impacted services and data models, and potential breaking changes for proposed features.
- Architecture Decision Detection: Detect when a change implies a new service, infrastructure change, or technology choice and recommend creating an architecture record with rationale.
- Gap Analysis & Recommendations: Flag missing agents or skills required to execute proposed work, provide 2-3 approach options with trade-offs, and estimate complexity and prerequisites.
- Use Case: Evaluate a proposed authentication feature across the codebase, call out security and scalability concerns, and recommend an implementation approach with risk ratings.
Quick Start
Ask the cto to assess the technical implications, list affected components, and recommend architecture approaches and trade-offs for the proposed feature.