strategize

A guide for defining a product problem before designing a solution. It combines research, opportunity assessment, customer journeys, competitive analysis, and hypotheses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for new project kickoffs, unclear requirements, research synthesis, strategic changes, opportunity assessment, and competitive analysis.
Why use it?
It turns vague requests or disagreements into a shared understanding of the problem, audience, evidence, and project scope.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/ghaida/intent/strategize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ghaida/intent

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 73 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,653 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 $0.00073 $0.04653
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.02327
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00931
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00465

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2b0902fdb7f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategize 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 2d 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.

.cursor/rules/strategize.mdc · 263 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 263 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategize — Frame the Problem

Overview

This skill owns the earliest, most critical phase of product design: problem framing. Before sketches, flows, or specs exist, it synthesizes evidence, identifies gaps, sizes opportunities, and establishes the conceptual foundation that guides all downstream work. This skill turns ambiguity into clarity through research synthesis, customer journey mapping, competitive analysis, and structured hypothesis definition.

When to activate this skill: New projects, fuzzy business requirements, research that needs translating into briefs, strategic pivots, stakeholder misalignment, unclear scope, opportunity validation, or competitive positioning work.


Skill family

This skill works alongside the full Intent skill system:

  • /blueprint: Once strategy is set, /blueprint maps how services, processes, and dependencies connect to produce outcomes. Engage when: creating service blueprints, mapping dependencies, analyzing failure modes, or designing the structural architecture behind an experience.
  • /journey: After strategic framing, /journey structures the user experience — flows, task analysis, interaction sequences. Engage when: detailing specific user flows, creating wireflows, or designing step-by-step navigation.
  • /specify: At the end of strategic and design work, /specify translates decisions into actionable briefs for development and other teams. Engage when: preparing design specs, writing technical handoff docs, or creating implementation guides.
  • /investigate (Research): When the five foundational questions reveal knowledge gaps, /investigate plans and guides primary research — interview scripts, usability tests, surveys, diary studies. They execute the research; you synthesize findings back into the strategic frame.
  • /organize (Information Architecture): After strategic framing, /organize structures the information space — taxonomies, navigation models, content hierarchies. Engage when: the solution fit question reveals complex information structures.
  • /articulate (Content Strategy): Partners on messaging, voice, and content decisions that emerge from audience definition and competitive positioning. Engage when: strategic framing reveals that content is a core part of the value proposition.
  • /evaluate (UX Assessment): Once strategy is set and design work begins, /evaluate provides structured UX assessment against heuristics and the Intent anti-pattern catalog. Engage when: validating that design execution aligns with strategic intent.
  • /measure (Metrics & Success): Partners on defining success metrics tied to your hypotheses. Each foundational question should connect to measurable outcomes. Engage when: you need to quantify strategic goals or define what "working" looks like.

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 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. 2d ago First seen · 263 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 2b0902fdb7f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

strategize is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository ghaida/intent (139 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 4,653 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 2026-08-30.