fractional-cto: The AI CTO Co-Pilot for SaaS Engineering
93 skills, 15 commands, and 16 agents across 11 plugins. Opinionated, research-backed Claude Code plugins for building SaaS products that ship.
Designed for Claude Code and Cowork. Skills compatible with other AI assistants.
Start Here
Building a form? Skills activate automatically.
Need an API review? /api-review
Auditing code quality? /pedantic-review
Researching a topic? /research "your question"
Stress-testing a plan? /stress-test path/to/plan.md
Compressing your CLAUDE.md? /compress path/to/file.md
If this project helps you, star the repo.
Why fractional-cto?
Generic AI gives you suggestions. fractional-cto gives you standards.
Each skill encodes a proven engineering principle (naming precision, API design patterns, cloud governance) and enforces it the moment Claude detects relevant work. You get the rigor of Stripe's API design, Nielsen Norman's usability research, and production cloud architecture baked into every session. No bookshelf required.
The skills are deliberately opinionated. They don't present five options and ask you to choose. They tell you what to do, cite why, and show you the code. If you disagree, edit the skill. It's just markdown.
How It Works
Every plugin activates the moment your Claude session starts. A session hook fires, reads the plugin's skill index, and injects it into context. From that point on, Claude knows what principles exist and when to apply them.
Each plugin carries review checklists, good/bad pattern comparisons, working code examples, and a dedicated reviewer agent for deeper audits.
Installation
Claude Code / Cowork
# Step 1: Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add oborchers/fractional-cto
# Step 2: Install individual plugins
/plugin install saas-design-principles@fractional-cto
/plugin install visual-design-principles@fractional-cto
/plugin install api-design-principles@fractional-cto
/plugin install cloud-foundation-principles@fractional-cto
/plugin install pedantic-coder@fractional-cto
/plugin install python-package@fractional-cto
/plugin install deep-research@fractional-cto
/plugin install structured-brainstorming@fractional-cto
/plugin install retell@fractional-cto
/plugin install stress-test@fractional-cto
/plugin install markdown-compressor@fractional-cto
Other AI assistants (skills only)
The skills/*/SKILL.md files follow the universal skill format and work with any tool that reads it. Commands and agents are Claude-specific.
| Tool | How to use | What works |
|---|
| Gemini CLI | Copy skill folders to .gemini/skills/ | Skills only |
| OpenCode | Copy skill folders to .opencode/skills/ | Skills only |
| Cursor | Copy skill folders to .cursor/skills/ | Skills only |
| Codex CLI | Copy skill folders to .codex/skills/ | Skills only |
| Kiro | Copy skill folders to .kiro/skills/ | Skills only |
# Example: copy all skills for Gemini CLI (project-level)
for plugin in */; do
[ -d "$plugin/skills" ] && cp -r "$plugin/skills/"* .gemini/skills/ 2>/dev/null
done
Local Development
claude --plugin-dir /path/to/fractional-cto/<plugin-name>
Available Plugins
1. saas-design-principles -- Speed, navigation, forms, tables, auth, accessibility (13 skills, 1 command, 1 agent)
Research-backed SaaS design principles drawn from Linear, Stripe, Shopify Polaris, and Nielsen Norman Group research.
Skills (13):
