CTO Toolkit

Practical engineering leadership assets

Open any resource for a usable framework — original and generic, not proprietary employer material.

DORA Review Template

A structured template for reviewing deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate and MTTR.

Definition of Ready

A readiness checklist that improves planning quality before implementation begins.

Definition of Done

A completion standard covering verification, security, observability and operability.

Context Pack Specification

The machine-readable environment a repository gives to every engineer and agent before work begins.

Execution Contract

The agreement between the accountable human and whoever implements — reviewed once, at the level of strategy.

Agent Autonomy Model

Risk-tiered levels defining how much authority an AI agent receives for a specific change.

Evidence Contract

What a completed change must demonstrate before anyone is entitled to call it done. No claim without evidence.

AI Engineering Scorecard

Four measurement categories for engineering organisations where humans and agents build software together.

Implementation

Adopt the whole system

These frameworks assembled into a tool-agnostic repository scaffold you can clone — context packs, autonomy levels, evidence contracts, agent evals and the scorecard.

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