great_cto v2.17 – no more tambourine dance
If you’ve ever spent 20 minutes setting up Claude Code plugins before you could even start working – this update is for you.
One install, everything works.
Previously: install great_cto, then figure out that Superpowers and Beads are also needed, find the repos, clone them, enable them in settings, restart. Classic.
Now – one command:
npx great-cto install
Done. Superpowers and Beads install automatically as companion plugins. They land in ~/.claude/plugins/cache/local/, get enabled in settings.json, and are ready to work. If git is missing – great_cto gives a friendly hint instead of silently failing.
Jurisdiction-aware agents.
The new jurisdictions module detects the context of your project – EU, US, Canada, UK, Australia, and others – and automatically activates the right regulatory reviewer agents.
Working on a fintech product for European users? The EU reviewer turns on automatically. Building for the Canadian market? PIPEDA gets covered. No manual configuration, no trying to remember what applies where.
Eight jurisdictions are currently supported, and the list keeps growing.
llm-leash UI: 16 new features.
The board got a serious upgrade. The most useful ones:
- Cmd-K – global command palette for navigation.
- Issues subtab – all security and compliance findings in one place.
- Session timeline – visual history of what happened and when.
- Topology graph – shows agent dependencies. Useful when you have 5+ parallel agents.
- HITL diff – human-in-the-loop review of agent changes before they’re applied.
- OPA config – Open Policy Agent integration for compliance rules.
- SOC2 export – one-click audit trail for compliance officers.
- Rule comparison – compare policy versions side by side.
Companion plugins out of the box.
A bit more detail on how the Superpowers + Beads bundle works, since the architecture is non-obvious.
Superpowers – a methodology plugin. It gives Claude Code skills: /brainstorm, /write-plan, /execute-plan, code review workflow, TDD cycle, parallel agent execution. Without it, Claude acts on vibes. With it – on a structured plan.
Beads – a git-native task tracker. Tasks live as commits, survive session restarts, have dependencies and blockers. Claude creates and closes them autonomously as it works.
great_cto – the orchestration layer. It routes requests to the right agents, enforces reviewers based on archetype and jurisdiction, manages the agent pipeline.
Together: you describe what needs to be done, great_cto breaks it into a plan, Beads tracks it, Superpowers enforces methodology, the right reviewer agents plug in automatically.
TL;DR
npx great-cto install
Feedback and PRs welcome.