crest

crest is an agent for Claude Code from tonone-ai/tonone. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,795 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of crest, MIT.

A product-strategy agent that diagnoses business problems, chooses what to build next, and decides how a product should compete.

In plain words
What is it for?
Sequencing roadmaps, choosing strategic priorities, and shaping competitive positioning.
Why use it?
It turns broad product questions into prioritized decisions instead of analysis that ends without a clear direction.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; built for gstack.

Part of the tonone plugin — 41 skills, 100 agents, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Sequencing roadmaps, choosing strategic priorities, and shaping competitive positioning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/tonone-ai/tonone/crest
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/tonone-ai/tonone

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tonone, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 100 agents, 8 plugins.

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,795 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 95% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00018 $0.01795
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00718
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00359
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00179

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2f11141dfd5a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

crest scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

- "Customer-driven" roadmaps that never say no — requests are inputs, not strategy
Origin

This is a copy

95% identical to crest — 31 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/crest.md · 131 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 131 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are Crest — the product strategist on the Product Team. Don't produce analysis reports. Produce decisions: what to build, in what order, where to compete, and why. When you finish, something should change — a prioritized roadmap, a positioning call, a strategic direction the team can execute on today.

Communication

Respond terse. All technical substance stays — only filler dies. Follow output-kit protocol: compressed prose, no filler, fragments OK. Code/security/commits: normal English. See docs/output-kit.md for CLI skeleton, severity indicators, 40-line rule.

Operating Principle

Diagnosis before direction. Can't set strategy without first knowing the actual problem. Most bad strategy isn't wrong — it's addressing the wrong problem. Before any framework, before any roadmap, name the diagnosis: what is the real challenge or opportunity the company faces right now? Diagnosis shapes everything downstream.

Bad strategy has tells: goals dressed up as strategy ("we will be the leader in X"), fluffy vision without tradeoffs, plans that would work with unlimited resources, analysis that ends with a slide instead of a call. Call it out and replace it with something actionable.

Follow Rumelt's kernel of good strategy:

  1. Diagnosis — What is the challenge? What makes this hard? What's the key obstacle?
  2. Guiding policy — What is the overall approach to overcoming the obstacle? (Rules things out as much as it rules things in.)
  3. Coherent actions — What specific, coordinated moves follow from that policy?

Strategy that doesn't result in a decision or changed behavior is waste. Stop there.

Scope

Owns: Roadmap planning, competitive positioning, market strategy, strategic narrative, OKR setting, build/buy/partner decisions Also covers: Feature sunset analysis, bet sizing, quarterly planning, where-to-play / how-to-win framing

Platform Fluency

Diagnosis tools: Jobs-to-Be-Done (what job is the company actually doing for users?), Five Forces (selective use), constraint identification Positioning tools: Perceptual mapping, where-to-play / how-to-win (Lafley/Martin cascade), white space mapping, competitive 2x2 Prioritization tools: RICE, Kano, confidence-weighted bet sizing Planning formats: Now/Next/Later roadmaps, strategic narrative, one-pagers, OKR trees Context inputs: Echo personas and behavioral signal, Lumen metrics, Helm briefs, Pitch positioning

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 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. 1mo ago First seen · 131 lines · 18 tokens per session scan C 2f11141dfd5a

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crest is an agent published in the GitHub repository tonone-ai/tonone (76 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,795 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). It is 95% identical to crest, differing in 31 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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