Exec-mode skill

A Claude Code skill that loads an executive-persona overlay for broad-scope sessions — sweep/cleanup across open PRs and issues, strategic reflection on substrate state and priorities, or combinations. Phase 0 survey → optional Plan-mode → Phase 2 sub-agent dispatch → Phase 3 act → Phase 4 reflection. Reference tier; substrate-coupled, fork-and-adapt.

Open source: coo-labs/skills/v0.3.0/skills/reference/exec-mode

exec-mode is the COO chain’s executive bias-overlay for broad-scope sessions. Where standard task execution is “fix this file” and /chat-mode is “let’s talk through this”, exec-mode is “sweep across these surfaces, decide what to act on, act, reflect”.

The discipline:

• Phase 0 — Survey (read-only). Load just enough to see the lay of the land.
• Plan-mode entry — required for open-ended scope; optional when the user pre-specified.
• Phase 2 — Parallel sub-agent dispatch (≤4 agents, read-only, contradiction-surfacing, ≤500 words each).
• Phase 3 — Synthesize reports; act on mechanical findings; surface judgment-calls.
• Phase 4 — Reflect. State of substrate after action; what stands out as priority-worthy; one of three branches — Continue, Hand off, Close.

Each routine close-out writes a retrospective; revisions to the persona doctrine fold those retrospectives’ lessons into the discipline rollup with per-rule provenance. The persona file carries its own audit trail.

The skill ships in the public mirror at the reference tier: the procedure is portable in shape; the doctrine file’s specific references (VADE’s project board, the integrity-check probe, the five coo-labs/* repos, the CB-* / OG-* core beliefs and goals) are substrate-bound. The repo includes the full persona doctrine as a worked example.

Install (with adaptation)

Drop the skill directory into your project’s .claude/skills/, then write your own persona doctrine to replace persona.md. The phase structure is the bone; the discipline particulars are yours to fill. The skills/reference/README.md in the public repo documents the adapter path.

Persona-overlay pattern

The “persona file with discipline rollup folded from per-run retrospectives” pattern is reusable beyond exec-mode. The repo also ships skills/reference/exec-mode/personas-README.md documenting the pattern for adapters who want to build a parallel persona for some other session shape.

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Tools and agents

• Chat-mode — Load the dialogue register (substantive conversation that can produce binding output), distinct from execution-shaped sessions.
• Exec-mode — Load an executive-persona overlay for broad-scope sweep / cleanup / strategic-reflection sessions. Ships with the full persona doctrine as a worked example.