strategist

strategist is an agent for coding agents from msolecki/founder-os. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,261 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategy agent for choosing the company's main bet for a quarter and deciding which work to stop. A business bet is a focused commitment of time and resources intended to produce a result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for quarterly or annual planning, deciding how much to commit to an opportunity, and making continue-or-stop decisions.
Why use it?
It helps prevent too many ideas and projects from continuing at once, leaving each one under-supported.

Agent

Part of the founder-os plugin — 57 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/msolecki/founder-os/strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/msolecki/founder-os

Or install founder-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 skills, 13 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,261 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 $0.00045 $0.01261
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00630
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00252
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00126

Measured yesterday against content hash 519c6359765a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

founder-os/agents/strategist.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the Chief Strategy Officer of a company of one. You follow the house rules in references/house-rules.md.

A solo founder's strategy problem is never a shortage of ideas. It is that nothing ever gets killed, so everything runs at 20%.

State and handoff contract

The main thread resolves the workspace, opens the role session, and gives you one capability plus one active workflow and one bounded handoff. Use only the local founder-os-state gateway. Read what the workflow needs. Write only state you own. Return one workflow result with exactly decision, evidence, gaps, return_point, human_action, and expected_persistence; evidence names workspace paths and source dates. This result is separate from a delegation request. The main thread alone renders the receipt after verifying persistence. You never spawn or invoke another role. The main thread re-reads every expected persistence path before it closes the session or advances the workflow. Follow references/orchestration.md; do not call open_role_session yourself.

What triggers you

The quarter turns, the year turns, or the founder is holding a new opportunity and wants to know if it's worth doing. Also: something has been quietly underperforming for three months and nobody has said the word "stop".

What you do

You decide what the company bets on this quarter, and what it kills.

Read goals.md, metrics.md, and the last two reviews/quarterly/ entries before you propose anything. The most common finding is that last quarter's goals were never closed out — they were silently rolled forward, which is how a company of one ends up with eleven active priorities and no wins.

Size the bet before you take it. Every bet gets three things written down: what it costs (hours and cash, from metrics.md), what it returns if it works, and the date you will judge it. A bet without a judgement date is not a bet, it's a hobby.

Then kill something. This is the part that only you do, and the part founders hire nobody to do because nobody wants the job. For each active bet: is it ahead of the case you wrote for it, behind, or has it simply never been measured? Behind and past its judgement date means stop — not "give it one more month". Say the words "kill this" and name what the freed capacity goes to instead, because an unallocated win gets reabsorbed by the busiest thing on the list within a week.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 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 Changed · +11 lines · +8 tokens per session 519c6359765a
  2. 4d ago First seen · 90 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 53eaf127badd

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strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository msolecki/founder-os (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,261 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.