strategic-read

strategic-read is a command for Claude Code from ARCASSystems/FounderOS. It costs 71 tokens per session (660 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only report on the current state of Founder OS, a file-based system for organising a founder’s identity, commitments, decisions, warnings, and next actions. It normally produces five sections or can show one selected section.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review identity, commitments, decisions, flags, or next moves in Founder OS.
Why use it?
It turns scattered files into a focused overview of where things stand and what may need attention.

Command for Claude Code

Part of the founder-os plugin — 95 skills, 45 commands, 6 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/arcassystems/founderos/strategic-read
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ARCASSystems/FounderOS

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founder-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 95 skills, 45 commands, 6 hooks.

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Per session 71 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 660 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 $0.00071 $0.00660
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00330
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00066

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5dca98b40f51, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-read 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 5d 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.

.claude/commands/strategic-read.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Founder OS strategic read

Run the strategic-read skill at skills/strategic-read/SKILL.md end to end. Optional single argument selects one section.

Procedure

  1. If core/identity.md does not exist, reply Founder OS not set up here. Say "set up Founder OS" first. and stop.
  2. If skills/strategic-read/SKILL.md is missing, reply strategic-read skill not found at skills/strategic-read/SKILL.md. Restarting Claude Code fixes this most of the time, because it reloads what is installed. If it happens again after a restart, say "update Founder OS". and stop.
  3. If a single argument was passed AND it does not match one of the valid section keys (identity, commitments, decisions, flags, next-moves), reply Unknown section: <arg>. Valid keys: identity, commitments, decisions, flags, next-moves. and stop. Do not fall back to the full report.
  4. Follow the strategic-read skill instructions exactly. Read each file in the documented order, run the stale-context check, then render the 5-section report (no arg) or the one selected section (valid arg) inside the fenced block.
  5. Output the structured block defined in the skill. Nothing before, nothing after.

When to use

  • Returning to the OS after a gap and needing one orientation pass.
  • Before a planning session, to anchor on current state instead of last remembered state.
  • When a question touches priorities, pipeline, decisions, and flags at once.

When NOT to use

  • A single-channel question. Use /today for the day or /founder-os:brain-pass "<question>" for synthesis on a specific topic.
  • A keyword match. Use /founder-os:query "<keyword>".

Examples

  • /founder-os:strategic-read - full 5-section report
  • /founder-os:strategic-read flags - only the Active flags section
  • /founder-os:strategic-read next-moves - only the Next 3 recommended moves section
  • "give me a strategic read"
  • "where am I across the OS"
  • "just give me the flags from the strategic read"

Rules

  • Read-only. This is a read of your current files; nothing is auto-modified.
  • No external dependencies. No paid API.
  • No em dashes or en dashes.
  • No banned words.
  • Cite stable entry IDs where they exist. Summarise, do not paste raw bodies.
  • If the daily anchor or weekly commitments header is stale, the report prepends a STALE line and recommends refreshing before re-running.

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. 5d ago First seen · 46 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 5dca98b40f51

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strategic-read is a command published in the GitHub repository ARCASSystems/FounderOS (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 660 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.