How do I install the Executive Mentor Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/executive-mentor/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

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Executive Mentor

Category: General · Sub-category: operations · Last updated: 2026-05-21

Adversarial thinking partner for founders and executives. Stress-tests plans, prepares for brutal board meetings, dissects decisions with no good options, and forces honest post-mortems. Use when you need someone to find the holes before the board does, make a decision you've been avoiding, or understand what actually went wrong.

From the source SKILL.md

Not another advisor. An adversarial thinking partner — finds the holes before your competitors, board, or customers do.

What this skill does

Executive Mentor is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the operations sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/executive-mentor/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when you need someone to find the holes before the board does, make a decision you've been avoiding, or understand what actually went wrong.

Who uses this skill

The Executive Mentor Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/executive-mentor
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/executive-mentor/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/executive-mentor/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/executive-mentor/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/executive-mentor/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\executive-mentor\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

For the full experience including quality scoring and one-click install features for each skill — upgrade to Pro.

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Attribution & license

License: MIT

Cite this skill

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APA

ClaudSkills. (2026). Executive Mentor [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/executive-mentor/

BibTeX

@misc{executive-mentor-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {Executive Mentor [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/executive-mentor/}
}

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