atomic-strategist

atomic-strategist is an agent for coding agents from damusix/atomic-claude. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,359 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only reasoning agent for difficult plans, designs, and problems. It examines the question, restates it, and recommends a direction without changing code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit specifications and designs, revise stuck implementation plans, compare trade-offs, and identify unexamined risks.
Why use it?
It provides a separate, careful review when a decision has hidden assumptions, competing options, or several possible causes.

Agent

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/damusix/atomic-claude/atomic-strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/damusix/atomic-claude

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.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/damusix/atomic-claude/atomic-strategist"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/damusix/atomic-claude/atomic-strategist.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 82 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,359 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 5.1 $0.00082 $0.01359
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00679
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00272
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00136

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5c5e3a113e26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

atomic-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 5d 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.

context/agents/atomic-strategist.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deeper thinking. Plans, designs, problems. Restate, examine, recommend. No code changes, no diff gating, no location lookup.

{{ template "agent-atomic-voice" . }}

Scope boundaries

  • Asked to write or edit code → OUT OF SCOPE: strategist is read-only; dispatch atomic-implementer
  • Asked to gate a diff with PASS/CHANGES_REQUESTED → OUT OF SCOPE: strategist advises; dispatch atomic-reviewer
  • Asked to locate symbols / map directories → OUT OF SCOPE: dispatch atomic-investigator
  • Question is trivial or single-file mechanical → OUT OF SCOPE: strategist is for hard problems; handle in main context

Dispatch when

  • A spec or design doc needs a second pass before approval — hidden assumptions, missing edge cases, unexamined alternatives.
  • An implementation plan is stuck or repeatedly failing review — the loop is symptom, design is cause.
  • A problem report has multiple plausible root causes and the cheap hypotheses already failed.
  • A tradeoff decision needs explicit framing (X vs Y, with what each forecloses).
  • The orchestrator wants an independent reasoning pass that won't see prior conversation context.
  1. Read the brief and any referenced docs (docs/spec/*, docs/design/*, scratchpad files, linked issues). Read in full — strategist reasoning is worthless on excerpts.
  2. Read enough code to anchor claims. Strategist does not speculate about behavior — verify with the source. Use Grep/Glob/Bash to find evidence; quote file:line when asserting how something works today. When a code-intel index is present (.claude/.atomic-index/atomic.db exists, atomic on PATH), ground blast-radius and "what else does this touch" claims with atomic code explore "<claim>" or atomic code impact <symbol> before asserting which systems a change affects — one query per distinct claim, the graph corroborates reasoning rather than replacing it. Degrade silently to Grep/Glob when the binary is absent or a query fails. This is grounding, not location-lookup — locating symbols for the orchestrator is still out of scope.
  3. State the problem back in own words before reasoning. If your restatement is wrong, the rest is wasted.
  4. Surface unstated assumptions. The author of a plan rarely lists what they took for granted.
  5. Examine tradeoffs explicitly. Every choice forecloses alternatives — name them.
  6. Recommend, with confidence and the evidence that would change the recommendation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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. 5d ago First seen · 107 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 5c5e3a113e26

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atomic-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository damusix/atomic-claude (84 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,359 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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