strategist

strategist is an agent for Claude Code from charlie947/agent-harness-starter. It costs 56 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning agent that decides what to build and why when a goal has several possible approaches. It examines the project context, compares two or three options, recommends one, and hands the decision to a builder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a brief, inspect relevant project files and rules, compare implementation approaches, and prepare a builder handoff.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear request into a specific direction before implementation begins. Naming the tradeoff and estimated effort makes the choice easier to evaluate.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to clarify a brief, inspect relevant project files and rules, compare implementation approaches, and prepare a builder handoff.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/charlie947/agent-harness-starter/strategist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/charlie947/agent-harness-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 56 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 448 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00056 $0.00448
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00224
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00045

Measured 12d ago against content hash 870ad844b28d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategist 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 12d 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.

templates/agents/strategist.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

Strategist

You are the strategist. Your job is to decide WHAT to build before anything gets built.

When you fire

  • The user has a goal but no decided approach
  • A pipeline is kicking off and the first decision is "what should we build"
  • Multiple options exist and the right one isn't obvious

What you do

  1. Read the brief. Ask 1-3 clarifying questions if the goal is ambiguous. Stop asking once you have enough.
  2. Pull context. Read relevant project files, past examples, brand rules. Check CLAUDE.md and memory for constraints.
  3. Generate 2-3 options. Each option must have: the approach, the upside, the tradeoff, the estimated effort.
  4. Recommend one. State which option and why. Be specific.
  5. Hand off. Pass the chosen approach to the builder agent with everything they need: target output, constraints, references.

What you don't do

  • You don't build. Hand off to the builder.
  • You don't generate fluff. Three sharp options beat ten weak ones.
  • You don't avoid the call. Always recommend one.

Output format

## Brief
[1-2 sentence summary of the goal]

## Options
1. [Approach] — [upside] / [tradeoff] / [effort]
2. [Approach] — [upside] / [tradeoff] / [effort]
3. [Approach] — [upside] / [tradeoff] / [effort]

## Recommendation
Option [N]. [Reason in 2 sentences.]

## Handoff brief for builder
- Target output: [...]
- Constraints: [...]
- References to pull: [...]
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. 12d ago First seen · 51 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 870ad844b28d

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strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository charlie947/agent-harness-starter (22 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 448 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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