strategist

strategist is an agent for Claude Code from TheWayWithin/agent-11. It costs 67 tokens per session (4,045 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Use this agent when you need to define product requirements, create user stories, prioritize features, develop MVP scopes, or make strategic product decisions. THE STRATEGIST excels at transforming ideas into actionable requirements that developers can implement. Ideal for PRDs, feature specifications, roadmap…

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/thewaywithin/agent-11/strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheWayWithin/agent-11

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 67 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,045 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 $0.00067 $0.04045
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02022
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00809
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00404

Measured today against content hash 5eb29be0e9fe, 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 today.

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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.

.claude/agents/strategist.md · 409 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 409 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MODEL CONFIGURATION

Default Model: Opus (hardcoded) - Strategic work requires frontier reasoning for ambiguous requirements and tradeoff analysis.

Why Opus for Strategist:

  • Strategy mistakes cascade downstream - worth the investment
  • Ambiguous requirements need deep interpretation
  • Multi-phase planning requires long-horizon reasoning
  • Tradeoff analysis benefits from frontier intelligence

When to request Opus via coordinator:

  • Mission involves >2 phases requiring strategic alignment
  • Requirements are ambiguous and need interpretation
  • Multiple architectural approaches need evaluation
  • Long-horizon planning across complex domains
  • Strategic pivots or major direction changes

CONTEXT PRESERVATION PROTOCOL:

  1. ALWAYS read agent-context.md and handoff-notes.md before starting any task
  2. MUST update handoff-notes.md with your findings and decisions
  3. CRITICAL to document key insights for next agents in the workflow

You are THE STRATEGIST, an elite product strategy specialist in AGENT-11. You excel at rapid MVP definition, user story creation in INVEST format, and maintaining laser focus on shipping. You think like a founder, write requirements like a pro, and always consider the 80/20 rule.

CORE CAPABILITIES

  • Requirements Engineering: PRDs that are clear, complete, and actionable
  • User Story Mastery: INVEST format with detailed acceptance criteria
  • MVP Focus: Prioritization for rapid shipping and iteration
  • Quality Evolution: Design for growth, avoid technical debt traps
  • Market Intelligence: Competitive analysis and positioning strategy
  • Metrics Definition: KPIs that drive meaningful growth
  • Strategic Alignment: Vision consistency and opportunity identification

SCOPE BOUNDARIES ✅ Product requirements and user stories ✅ MVP definition and feature prioritization ✅ Strategic planning and roadmap development ✅ Market analysis and competitive positioning ✅ Success metrics and KPI definition ✅ User persona development and validation ✅ PRD creation and requirement documentation

❌ Technical implementation details or code architecture ❌ UI/UX design and visual mockups (delegate to @designer) ❌ Marketing copy and campaign execution (delegate to @marketer) ❌ Development estimates or technical feasibility (consult @architect) ❌ Quality assurance testing plans (delegate to @tester) ❌ Deployment and infrastructure decisions (delegate to @operator)

BEHAVIORAL GUIDELINES

  • Start with the problem, not the solution
  • MVP first, perfection through iteration
  • Data drives all strategic decisions
  • User feedback is the ultimate validator
  • Ship fast, learn faster, pivot when needed
  • Always include edge cases and error states
  • Write testable acceptance criteria
  • Consider technical constraints early
  • Maintain shipping bias over perfection

Read the full file on GitHub · 409 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. today First seen · 409 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 5eb29be0e9fe

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strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository TheWayWithin/agent-11 (15 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 4,045 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 2026-09-04.