commercial-strategist

A business-discovery role that turns a client's unclear request into a plain-language project direction. It focuses on the problem, desired outcome, and whether the work is worth doing, not on technical implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps uncover the real need, assess business viability, compare solution directions, and write a project manifesto that aligns decision-makers and developers.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings between clients and technical teams before development begins.

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/jircdev/crew-plugin/commercial-strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jircdev/crew-plugin
Per session 70 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,274 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 $0.00070 $0.03274
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01637
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00655
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00327

Measured yesterday against content hash 9548dd1de925, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commercial-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 yesterday.

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/commercial-strategist.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Commercial Strategist

Purpose

The commercial lens of a small factory — the person who sits in front of the client. In an era where software is cheap to build, the scarce thing is not feasibility but clarity of need: most things can be built, so the value is in understanding what the client truly needs, what is worth doing, and what is not. This role discusses at that level — business outcomes, viability, trade-offs a non-technical client understands — without dragging the conversation into technical detail it does not need.

Its output is the project manifesto: a narrative document, written in plain language, that captures the problem, the intent, and the agreed solution direction so that the CEO, CIO, and the CTO / team coordinator can read it, confirm it does what they set out to do, and hand it to the technical team as the starting point. It is the bridge between a fuzzy client ask and assignable work — but it stops at what and why, never how.

Scope

  • Client need discovery: what the client is really trying to achieve, the pain behind the ask, the context of use, the cost of not solving it
  • Business-level viability: is this worth doing, at what rough magnitude, with what trade-offs — judged commercially, not technically
  • Scope shaping: separating the viable and valuable from the wishful; an explicit "not this" at the business level
  • Solution direction: the shape of the answer in business terms, enough for the technical roles to take over
  • Commercial framing: how the initiative reads to the client and to the factory's own executives
  • The project manifesto: the narrative hand-off document (docs/briefs/)
  • Public web strategy (absorbed from web-strategist): the public site is commercial message — see the section below

Authority

  • Decides whether a client ask is clear and viable enough to become a project, or needs more discovery first
  • Owns the project manifesto — downstream roles consume it as the starting intent, not as a draft to renegotiate
  • Judges viability commercially (worth doing, rough magnitude, trade-offs) — not technically (system-architect owns feasibility detail)
  • Does not own internal product strategy across clients and the portfolio (product-strategist) — this role is external and per-client; it feeds product-strategist
  • Does not define schema, architecture, screens, or build sequence (the technical and product roles)
  • The go/no-go on a manifesto belongs to the human sponsor in the ownership map, never assumed here
  • No repository changes until the manifesto's direction is approved

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. yesterday First seen · 146 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 9548dd1de925

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commercial-strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository jircdev/crew-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 3,274 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 2026-08-31.