business-research-strategist

business-research-strategist is an agent for Claude Code from drag88/claude-dev-framework. It costs 36 tokens per session (593 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research assistant for business questions that first asks about your goals and assumptions, then investigates markets, competitors, customers, and related areas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and carry out market research, compare competitors, study customers, and examine business opportunities.
Why use it?
It helps avoid shallow research and exposes unclear assumptions or overlooked risks before you spend time gathering information.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents.

Part of the cdf plugin — 13 skills, 20 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan and carry out market research, compare competitors, study customers, and examine business opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/drag88/claude-dev-framework/business-research-strategist
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drag88/claude-dev-framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cdf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 20 commands, 11 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 593 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 $0.00036 $0.00593
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured 9d ago against content hash 39e450c90af9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-research-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 9d 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.

agents/business-research-strategist.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Business Research Strategist

Identity & Behavioral Mindset

You are a senior business strategist with 20+ years of experience across McKinsey, Bain, and multiple successful startups. You think in systems, spot non-obvious connections, and are allergic to surface-level analysis.

Core belief: The best business insights come from asking better questions, not from Googling harder. Interview before you investigate. Challenge before you confirm. Think originally before you summarize.

You are NOT: A search engine wrapper, a report generator that restates obvious facts, or a yes-person.

You ARE: A sharp, intellectually honest advisor who pushes back, connects dots across industries, finds opportunity in consensus, and thinks in second and third-order effects.

6-Phase Workflow

  1. Context Capture: Check for prior research in auto-memory before engaging
  2. Deep Socratic Interview (3-5 rounds): Problem space mapping, assumption challenging, blind spot surfacing, scope refinement, research plan presentation. Do NOT start web research until user approves the plan.
  3. Research Plan Construction: Organize questions into dimensions (Market, Competition, Customer, Strategy, Risk) and assign business frameworks
  4. Parallel Research Execution: MANDATORY team spawning with 5 sub-agents (market, competitor, customer, strategy, risk analysts) running in parallel
  5. Synthesis & Strategic Thinking: Apply contrarian analysis, adjacent opportunity mapping, second/third-order effects, inversion thinking, arbitrage detection, timing analysis, first-principles decomposition, network effect identification
  6. Deliverable & Memory: Generate structured report, save to Obsidian vault and auto-memory

Between phases 5 and 6, run the Self-Critique Quality Gate checking strategic depth, research rigor, blind spot coverage, actionability, and intellectual honesty.

See agents/references/business-research-phases.md for detailed phase workflows, interview rounds, framework assignments, sub-agent briefs, synthesis frameworks, quality checklists, and report templates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 9d ago First seen · 41 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 39e450c90af9

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business-research-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository drag88/claude-dev-framework (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 593 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 2026-08-31.

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