A strategic AI planning agent that reviews, challenges, and upgrades your technical implementation plans from an executive perspective.
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1. ClawHub CLI
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npx clawhub@latest install clawlite-ceo-review
2. Manual Installation
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~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
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Help me install clawlite-ceo-review using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is ClawLite CEO Review?
ClawLite CEO Review is a sophisticated strategic layer for AI coding agents, designed to act as a high-level executive reviewer for technical implementation plans. It moves beyond simple task execution to ensure that every project follows a clear strategic direction, whether you are aiming for a massive expansion or a lean MVP approach. By integrating this skill into Openclaw Skills, developers can catch architectural flaws and hidden risks before writing a single line of code.
This skill transforms the AI from a simple coder into a technical partner. It emphasizes failure visibility, observability, and explicit decision-making, ensuring that every code change is intentional, well-tested, and strategically sound. It is built to prevent the 'rubber-stamping' of mediocre plans, pushing the developer and the agent toward excellence through rigorous auditing.
ClawLite CEO Review Use Cases
- Validating high-level project premises before starting complex refactors or new features.
- Mapping failure modes and silent errors in mission-critical data flows to ensure system resilience.
- Creating Minimal Viable Product (MVP) versions of bloated feature requests to speed up delivery.
- Visualizing complex logic and state machines through mandatory architectural diagrams.
- Auditing existing codebases for technical debt, TODOs, and architectural inconsistencies.
How ClawLite CEO Review Works
- Conducts a Pre-Audit by scanning git history, diff stats, and project-specific documentation like CLAUDE.md or architectural design files.
- Challenges the core scope and premises of the user's request to ensure the right problem is being solved.
- Presents multiple implementation strategies (Alternative A, B, and C) with varying effort and risk ratings.
- Prompts the user to select a strategic mode: Expansion, Selective Expansion, Hold Scope, or Scope Reduction.
- Executes a deep-dive review focusing on failure visibility, specific error naming, and 'shadow path' data analysis.
- Generates a comprehensive CEO Review Report featuring ASCII diagrams and a final project status (e.g., DONE or BLOCKED).
ClawLite CEO Review Setup
To use this skill within your Openclaw Skills environment, ensure your agent has access to the repository context and git CLI. You can initialize the context audit with the following commands:
# Audit recent changes and technical debt
git log --oneline -30
grep -r "TODO|FIXME|HACK" -l --exclude-dir=node_modules . | head -20
# Check for existing design documentation
ls .context/*design* 2>/dev/null
Once the context is established, invoke the skill to review any proposed implementation plan.
ClawLite CEO Review Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill utilizes a structured reporting format to organize strategic data and metadata:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Mode | The selected posture: EXPANSION, SELECTIVE, HOLD, or REDUCTION |
| Premise Challenge | Analysis of whether the plan addresses the core business pain point |
| Error Mapping | Detailed taxonomy of specific exceptions and user-facing feedback |
| Data Flow Paths | Visualization of happy paths plus nil, empty, and upstream error paths |
| Observability | Required logging, metrics, and runbook updates for the new feature |
| Final Status | Categorization as DONE, DONE_WITH_CONCERNS, BLOCKED, or NEEDS_CONTEXT |
ClawLite CEO Review Advanced Features
- Multi-mode strategic alignment allowing for visionary expansion or surgical scope reduction.
- Automated shadow path analysis for all data flows to ensure zero silent failures.
- Mandatory ASCII architectural visualization for state machines and processing pipelines.
- Integrated system auditing that utilizes git logs and file patterns to find hidden technical debt.
- Security-first threat modeling integrated directly into the plan review process.
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