istishraf

istishraf is a command for Claude Code from kolesar/strategic-thinker-claude-plugin. It costs 68 tokens per session (2,663 once invoked), scanned B, original, no licence file.

A planning and delivery workflow that examines a decision or feature before code is written, then guides implementation and review. It includes test-driven development (TDD), where tests are written before the code they check.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess decisions, plan features, build them in phases, write tests, review the result adversarially, and run quality checks.
Why use it?
It helps prevent rushing into implementation without checking assumptions, strategy, risks, and quality. It also provides review and verification steps before work is considered complete.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the istishraf plugin — 6 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess decisions, plan features, build them in phases, write tests, review the result adversarially, and run quality checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/kolesar/strategic-thinker-claude-plugin/istishraf
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/kolesar/strategic-thinker-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install istishraf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 9 commands, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for istishraf

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 68 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,663 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 unknown 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 $0.00068 $0.02663
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.01332
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00533
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00266

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4a1660f2c56e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

istishraf 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

`~/.claude/settings.json`). Phases 0–2 require deep reasoning; Phases 3–5
plugins/istishraf/commands/istishraf.md · 271 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 271 lines · 68 tokens per session scan B 4a1660f2c56e

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istishraf is a command published in the GitHub repository kolesar/strategic-thinker-claude-plugin (4 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 2,663 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.