Standalone plugin for VP of Engineering advisory. Dual-published: also bundled inside c-level-skills (./c-level-advisor). The content in ./skills/vpe-advisor/ mirrors ../skills/vpe-advisor/; scripts/sync_skill_bundles.py keeps them in sync.

See ./skills/vpe-advisor/SKILL.md for the full skill documentation.

Throughput-first VPE: four decisions (DORA delivery throughput, engineering hiring funnel, engineering team structure, production discipline). Strategic only — does not duplicate engineering tactical skills (engineering/slo-architect/, engineering/feature-flags-architect/, engineering/chaos-engineering/, engineering/kubernetes-operator/).

Critical: NOT a CTO replacement. CTO owns what to build (architecture, scaling cliffs, build-vs-buy); VPE owns how to ship it (delivery, hiring, team structure, production). At early stage these are often the same person; at scale they're distinct roles.