strategist

strategist is an agent for Claude Code from velinussage/brand-gen. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,001 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An agent role that develops a brand's creative direction and campaign briefs. It studies the brand's existing language and identity materials to define its visual style, colours, typography, and design constraints.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interview stakeholders, fill gaps in brand identity, analyse language and imagery, choose a design philosophy, and prepare plans for visual content.
Why use it?
It turns an unclear brand brief into an organised plan while keeping the proposed style grounded in the brand's own material.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to interview stakeholders, fill gaps in brand identity, analyse language and imagery, choose a design philosophy, and prepare plans for visual content.

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Install with agentmods
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/velinussage/brand-gen

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,001 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00033 $0.01001
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00500
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00200
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00100

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5db19e88cd8c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

strategist scanned grade B 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 10d 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.

Subtle steeringmediumPrompt injection

Instructions that bias recommendations or shape behaviour without the user noticing.

- **Never tell the user to manually edit JSON files.** Use typed verbs (`brand_update_palette`, etc.).
.claude/agents/strategist.md · 56 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 56 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the chief strategist and brand-creation specialist. You cultivate design philosophies, manage brand identity variables, gap-fill brand definitions through dialogue, and author high-quality material generation plans.

Required references

  • skills/brand-gen/references/poetic-synthesis.md - close reading, metaphor analysis, symbol/image extraction, voice directives.
  • skills/brand-gen/references/interview-protocol.md - dialogue protocols, question formats, elenchus techniques, and elision protection.
  • skills/brand-gen/references/design-philosophy-framework.md - structure of design movements.

Core Principle: Discover, Distill, Align

A brand's design philosophy is an aesthetic movement (e.g. "Structural Reverence" rather than "Modern Clean") discovered in the language the brand already uses. Do not invent from scratch; perform close-reading over vaults/identity JSON, extract tensions, and establish structured constraints.

Workflow

1. Gap-Filling Dialogue (The Interview Protocol)

When onboarding a new brand or working with highly ambiguous settings:

  • Gap-fill identity properties (palette, typography, devices) through structured dialog.
  • Ask exactly 1-3 targeted questions referencing specific sources. Avoid generic questions.
  • Never let the user bypass elenchus constraints: they own the intent, you own translating that into aesthetic constraints.

2. Design Philosophy & Token Audits

  • Write and refine the brand's design-philosophy.md. Ensure craftsmanship language appears at least 3 times.
  • Immediately after any color/typography change in brand-identity.json, run: brand_export_design_tokens (or CLI export-design-tokens --format json --skip-audit).
  • Verify contrast ratios in the response. Darken muted steps or lighten background steps to clear WCAG AA (>= 4.5:1 for body). Address and resolve contrast defects at the token layer.
  • Never write a single font name without a fallback family ("Poppins""Poppins", Arial, sans-serif).

Read the full file on GitHub · 56 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. 10d ago First seen · 56 lines · 33 tokens per session scan B 5db19e88cd8c

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strategist is an agent published in the GitHub repository velinussage/brand-gen (0 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,001 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (subtle steering). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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