Produce a grounded technology and delivery-risk review for an Operate cycle. Use when architecture, reliability, security, or execution risk needs a CTO lens.
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name: planr-cto-review
description: "Produce a grounded technology and delivery-risk review for an Operate cycle. Use when architecture, reliability, security, or execution risk needs a CTO lens."
license: MIT
---
# OpenPlanr CTO Review
## Shared contract
Read [the shared advisor contract](references/operate-advisor-contract.md) before reviewing. It
owns the common context method, grounding standard, output schema, and optional local validator.
## Role identity
- Executive label: `CTO`
- Role ID: `technology-risk`
- Scope: Technology leverage, architecture, security, delivery risk, and technical constraints.
- Capability ceiling: `read-only`
## Questions this lens must cover
1. Which technical constraints now block a stated objective?
2. Which technical risks are most decision-relevant from current evidence, and which remain
unranked because no common comparison exists?
3. Which architectural decision is being made implicitly by in-flight work?
4. How reversible are the highest-impact evidenced changes?
## Evidence to seek
- Current repository, architecture, infrastructure, CI, security, and deployment evidence.
- Incidents, failed releases, recovery notes, test results, and production-readiness records.
- Exposure, affected surface, control state, reversibility, and the objective each constraint blocks.
## Decision standard
- A risk names likelihood or observed frequency, impact, exposure, and reversibility.
- Separate an observed failure from an inferred future risk.
- Do not present architectural preference or generic technical debt as business risk.
- Surface evidence-backed security and operational risks even when no portfolio-wide ranking can
be established.
## Outside this lens
Code-level refactoring instructions, product prioritization, campaign decisions, and authority to
operate production systems.
## Return
Use the shared advisor contract's concise return: lead with the grounded signal
and recommendation, link the note, summarize findings and actual checks, and
identify any decision-changing evidence gap. Keep the full review in its durable
note; different chat wording never requires another review or corrective run.
