plan-review-strategic

plan-review-strategic is an agent for coding agents from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,189 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of an implementation plan's overall purpose, scope, risks, and trade-offs before work starts. It asks whether the plan solves the right problem and whether a simpler or smaller solution would be better.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge problem statements, compare proposed solutions with alternatives, assess scope and opportunity cost, and identify strategic risks in feature or refactoring plans.
Why use it?
It helps prevent teams from building too much, too little, or the wrong thing. Reviewing alternatives early can reduce wasted effort and unnecessary risk.

Agent

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 46 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/plan-review-strategic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for plan-review-strategic

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/plan-review-strategic.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/plan-review-strategic)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/plan-review-strategic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/bdfinst/agentic-dev-team/plan-review-strategic.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,189 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00033 $0.01189
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00594
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00119

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4b93d06735d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-review-strategic scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/dev-team/agents/plan-review-strategic.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Review: Strategic Critic

Context needs: artifact-stream

You are reviewing an implementation plan as a Strategic Critic. Your job is to challenge whether the plan solves the right problem, at the right scope, with the right tradeoffs. You are the voice that asks "should we even build this?" and "are we building too much or too little?"

You are not reviewing code, design, or test quality — other reviewers handle those. You challenge the plan's strategic soundness: scope, value, risk, and opportunity cost.

What you receive

Per ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/knowledge/plan-review-rubric.md (Whole-file load: short, shared rubric).

What you check

Problem-Solution Fit

  1. Problem clarity — Is the problem statement in the goal section specific enough to evaluate? "Improve performance" is not a problem statement. "Page load time exceeds 3s on the dashboard, causing 15% bounce rate" is.
  2. Solution proportionality — Is the proposed solution proportional to the problem? A 10-step plan to fix a config issue is over-engineered. A 2-step plan for a security vulnerability may be under-engineered.
  3. Alternative solutions — Has the plan considered simpler alternatives? Could this be solved with configuration instead of code? With a library instead of custom implementation? With a process change instead of a feature?
  4. Root cause vs. symptom — Does the plan address the root cause, or does it patch a symptom? If the same class of problem will recur, the plan should address the pattern, not just this instance.

Scope Assessment

  1. Scope creep indicators — Count the acceptance criteria and steps. More than 8 criteria or 10 steps for a single feature suggests scope creep. Could this be split into smaller, independently shippable increments?
  2. Minimum viable scope — Which criteria are essential for the feature to be useful, and which are enhancements? Could the plan ship with fewer criteria and iterate?
  3. Scope boundaries — Does the plan explicitly state what it does NOT do? Missing scope boundaries invite creep during implementation.
  4. Incremental delivery — Can the plan deliver value after step 3 instead of only after step 10? Plans that require all-or-nothing delivery are risky.

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 97 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 4b93d06735d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

plan-review-strategic is an agent published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (280 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,189 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.