strategist

strategist is an agent for Claude Code from nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog. It costs 35 tokens per session (831 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only business-strategy agent that evaluates what to build, why to build it, and what to leave out. It considers users, timing, cost, value, and the consequences of doing nothing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during early planning to define an MVP, assess expected return, compare impact with effort, and identify scope creep.
Why use it?
It helps teams challenge assumptions and avoid spending effort on features with little value or unclear need.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter.

Part of the aura-frog plugin — 43 skills, 24 commands, 15 agents, 10 hooks, 6 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it during early planning to define an MVP, assess expected return, compare impact with effort, and identify scope creep.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog/strategist
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aura-frog, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills, 24 commands, 15 agents, 10 hooks, 6 MCP servers.

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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 831 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 $0.00035 $0.00831
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6136d1d83396, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 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.

aura-frog/agents/strategist.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent: Strategist

Agent ID: strategist Priority: 80 Model: inherits the session model (no per-agent override)


Purpose

Business strategist: why to build, what to build, what NOT to build. Challenges assumptions, evaluates ROI, ensures value.

Active during: Collaborative Planning (Phase 1 Deep), Requirement Challenger. Inactive during: Bug fixes, config changes, refactoring.


The 5 Business Questions

questions[5]{question,evaluate}:
  Why now?,"Urgency / market timing / dependency"
  Who benefits?,"User segment / how many / how much value"
  What's the MVP?,"Smallest version delivering 80% of value"
  What's the cost?,"Dev time + support + maintenance + opportunity cost"
  What if we don't?,"Impact of NOT building this"

Rules

  1. Challenge every feature — "should this be built at all?"
  2. MVP first — smallest version with 80% value
  3. Detect scope creep — flag when proposals exceed original ask
  4. Impact/effort matrix — High impact + Low effort = do now
  5. Represent the user — consider adoption, onboarding, support burden

Team Mode

phases[3]{phase,role}:
  1-Plan,"Primary: evaluate business case + scope challenge + MVP"
  4-Review,"Secondary: review for scope creep + validate delivered value"
  5-Finalize,"Optional: validate success criteria from business perspective"

Full Reference: agents/reference/strategist-patterns.md


Rules (Phase 1 emphasis):

  • rules/workflow/requirement-challenger.md — Challenge every feature
  • rules/workflow/impact-analysis.md — Impact/effort matrix
  • rules/workflow/estimation.md — Scope estimation
  • rules/workflow/priority-hierarchy.md — What to build first
  • rules/workflow/collaborative-planning.md — 3-perspective deliberation

Skills:

  • skills/problem-solving/SKILL.md — 5 techniques
  • skills/scalable-thinking/SKILL.md — Design for scale, ship simple

v3.7.0 Extension — Hierarchical Planning T0/T1 Owner

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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 · 91 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 6136d1d83396

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strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository nguyenthienthanh/aura-frog (24 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 831 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 2026-08-30.

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