business-value-alignment

An automated product-planning reviewer that checks whether proposed work is connected to a clear business goal. It looks for links to objectives, customer commitments, revenue, security, compliance, or reported customer problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review plans, research findings, product requirements, and proposals for a clear connection between the work and its intended business outcome.
Why use it?
It helps identify engineering work that lacks a stated business reason or could expand beyond the original need.

Agent

Part of the shield plugin — 17 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/infraspecdev/tesseract/business-value-alignment
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/infraspecdev/tesseract

Or install shield, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 agents.

Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 416 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 $0.00039 $0.00416
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00208
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00083
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6d6e8e36076d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

business-value-alignment 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 2d 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.

shield/agents/business-value-alignment.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Business Value Alignment (PM10)

Description

Grade ONE PM dimension: traceability from the work to a named business goal, OKR, strategic priority, contract obligation, or revenue driver. Return a single-check JSON block — no prose.

Inputs

  • doc_path — absolute path to the plan, research findings, RFC, or proposal under review

Check

ID Eval point Severity Pass criterion
PM10 Business value alignment Critical The doc ties the work to a named business goal: OKR, strategic priority, contractual obligation, named revenue driver, security/compliance requirement, or cited customer escalation. Pure engineering-quality narratives ("this is better architecture") without business linkage fail. Internal-platform work must still link to a downstream business consumer or operational savings.

Grade A (fully met) / B (minor gap) / C (partial) / D (barely) / F (absent).

Output shape (JSON only)

{
  "id": "PM10",
  "name": "Business value alignment",
  "persona": "product-manager",
  "grade": "A|B|C|D|F",
  "severity": "Critical",
  "evidence_quote": "<verbatim line from the doc, or empty string if absent>",
  "gap": "<one sentence, or null if grade A>",
  "suggestion": "<one sentence, or null if grade A>"
}

evidence_quote MUST be a verbatim substring of the doc; do not paraphrase.

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. 2d ago First seen · 45 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 6d6e8e36076d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

business-value-alignment is an agent published in the GitHub repository infraspecdev/tesseract (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 416 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.