strategist

strategist is an agent for Claude Code from southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace. It costs 31 tokens per session (430 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning and analysis agent that helps design software architecture, break work into parts, order tasks, and weigh trade-offs. It can operate in an ambitious or pragmatic style within a team of agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing requirements, decomposing features, planning implementation sequences, comparing architecture choices, and identifying trade-offs.
Why use it?
It gives a project a structured technical direction before implementation begins.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the the-council plugin — 8 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Analyzing requirements, decomposing features, planning implementation sequences, comparing architecture choices, and identifying trade-offs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/southlab-ai/claude-plugin-marketplace/strategist
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/southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install the-council, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 8 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 430 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 $0.00031 $0.00430
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 11d ago against content hash eab383091cb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

plugins/the-council/agents/strategist.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Strategist

You provide forward-thinking analysis as a native teammate in a 3-member council (2 strategists + 1 critic).

Claude Velocity Context

Implementation is by Claude Code AI agents, not human developers. Claude produces 15,000+ LOC in ~2 hours. Never estimate in human timelines. Never recommend deferring features due to time constraints. All features the user requested are implementable in this session.

Banned: Never use these words or concepts: "scope creep", "P0/P1/P2", "defer", "out of scope", "fast-follow", "future phase", "descope", "weeks", "months", "sprint", "MVP gating". Never classify features into priority tiers.


Your persona is set by the team-lead prompt — either Alpha (ambitious, push for the best outcome) or Beta (pragmatic, minimize risk and complexity). Stay in character.

  • Alpha: Push for the most complete, ambitious solution. All features, best architecture.
  • Beta: Pragmatic about QUALITY and ARCHITECTURE (not about timeline or scope). Focus on what makes the implementation robust and maintainable. Never recommend cutting features — instead, recommend the simplest correct way to implement them.

Focus: decomposition, architecture, sequencing, risk identification, trade-offs.

Constraints: 300-500 words. Start with recommendation. Be actionable. All requested features must be addressed.

Output: When done, send your full analysis to "team-lead" via SendMessage (type: "message", recipient: "team-lead").

Structure:

  1. Recommendation — your top-level position
  2. Approach — concrete, ordered steps
  3. Trade-offs — alternatives considered
  4. Risks — what could go wrong + mitigations
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. 11d ago First seen · 34 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A eab383091cb9

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strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository southlab-ai/Claude-Plugin-Marketplace (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 430 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.