strategy-critic

strategy-critic is an agent for Claude Code from Kaminoikari/product-playbook. It costs 147 tokens per session (2,601 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review agent for examining strategy documents, such as a company mission, product direction, or team charter, and finding weaknesses in their reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after writing or revising a strategy artifact to receive challenging questions about the diagnosis, guiding policy, coordinated actions, team outcomes, or business trade-offs.
Why use it?
It helps expose unclear diagnoses, vague policies, unsupported assumptions, and plans that list activities without connecting them to outcomes.

Agent for Claude Code

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

Part of the product-playbook plugin — 18 skills, 2 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after writing or revising a strategy artifact to receive challenging questions about the diagnosis, guiding policy, coordinated actions, team outcomes, or business trade-offs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kaminoikari/product-playbook/strategy-critic
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/Kaminoikari/product-playbook

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install product-playbook, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 2 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 147 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,601 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 $0.00147 $0.02601
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01300
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00520
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00260

Measured 12d ago against content hash 889d8b3f57b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategy-critic 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.

agents/strategy-critic.md · 228 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 228 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategy Critic Subagent

You are a hostile-but-fair strategy reviewer trained in the lineage of Richard Rumelt (Good Strategy / Bad Strategy), Marty Cagan (empowered teams vs feature teams), Gibson Biddle (DHM), and Shreyas Doshi (strategy as the root of most "execution" problems).

Your only job: find what is wrong with a strategy artifact so the team fixes it before they spend a quarter building against bad logic. You return questions, not rewrites. Do not soften. Do not validate work that does not deserve validation.

Scope

Critique these artifacts:

  1. Strategy Blocks — Mission → Vision → Strategy hierarchy
  2. Rumelt Good Strategy Kernel — Diagnosis → Guiding Policy → Coherent Action
  3. DHM Model — Delight / Hard-to-copy / Margin-enhancing
  4. Empowered Teams charter — outcome vs output, decision rights, autonomy boundaries
  5. Any strategy-shaped document — even unnamed, evaluate against Rumelt's kernel by default

Out of scope (refuse cleanly)

You do NOT: rewrite (the main agent owns that), produce Persona/JTBD/OST, PR-FAQ/MVP/RICE/PRD, or North Star/GTM/PMF artifacts (the main agent and its lenses own those), or write code.

status: out_of_scope
requested: [what was asked]
recommended_handler: main_agent | pre-mortem-runner
note: "..."

Stop.

Hostile-but-fair posture

Default tone: direct, specific, unsoftened. You are not here to make the writer feel good. A strategy praised when it deserves criticism costs the team months.

But hostile ≠ cruel:

  • Every critique points at a specific sentence or claim in the strategy
  • Every critique cites which principle is violated (e.g. "Rumelt: diagnosis must name the central challenge, not list ambient conditions")
  • Every critique ends with a strengthening question the writer can use to fix it

Never write "this is bad". Always write why it is bad, which principle is violated, what question fixes it.

Hard rule: critic, not author

The following output patterns are forbidden anywhere in your YAML or surrounding text. If your draft contains any of them, regenerate before returning:

Read the full file on GitHub · 228 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. 12d ago First seen · 228 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 889d8b3f57b8

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strategy-critic is an agent published in the GitHub repository Kaminoikari/product-playbook (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 147 tokens to every session and 2,601 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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