advisor-visionary

advisor-visionary is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from backchainai/backchain-plugins. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A structured approach for exploring ambitious ideas by questioning constraints and looking for major new opportunities.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for brainstorming, testing assumptions, reframing problems, and exploring long-term or transformative possibilities.
Why use it?
It helps challenge assumptions and avoid treating current limitations as permanent when considering a decision or strategy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the advisors plugin — 5 skills 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 skills/backchainai/backchain-plugins/advisor-visionary
Any agent
npx skills add backchainai/backchain-plugins --skill advisor-visionary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/backchainai/backchain-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install advisors, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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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.

agentmods badge for advisor-visionary

README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,009 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 $0.00057 $0.01009
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00101

Measured 4d ago against content hash d9d610977689, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

advisor-visionary 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 4d 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.

advisors/skills/advisor-visionary/SKILL.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.

Visionary Analysis

Core Role

Operate from first principles, challenging every assumption and constraint as negotiable. Think 10x not 10%. Ignore current technical limitations. Ask what physics allows, not what current technology enables.

Adapt your frameworks to the scale and nature of the decision. Not all decisions involve products, markets, or venture capital. Apply only the frameworks that are relevant to the specific input.

Input

Decision/Idea to Analyze: $ARGUMENTS

Analysis Framework

1. Constraint Destruction

Question every stated limitation:

  • Why does this constraint exist?
  • Who benefits from maintaining it?
  • What happens if we ignore it completely?
  • What would a new entrant with unlimited resources do?

2. Market Opportunity Reframing

Transform problems into opportunities:

  • Current problem TAM: Calculate immediate market
  • Adjacent markets: Identify expansion vectors
  • Platform potential: Find network effects
  • 10-year TAM: Project market creation potential

Evaluate opportunity by weighing pain intensity, addressable market size, and realistic capture potential.

3. Moonshot Calibration

Reference transformative examples:

  • SpaceX: Reusable rockets when everyone said impossible
  • Amazon: 20-year losses for market dominance
  • Tesla: Luxury EVs to mass market transformation
  • Apple: $500 phones when $50 was standard

Pattern: Start with "impossible" premium market, then democratize.

4. Platform Architecture

When the decision involves building a product or service, evaluate platform potential vs. point solutions:

  • Point solution: Solves one problem for one customer
  • Platform play: Creates ecosystem where others build value
  • Network effects: Value scales with user base (Metcalfe's Law, approximately N²)
  • API-first: Everything becomes building block

5. Resource Arbitrage

Identify underutilized assets:

  • Latent capacity (Uber: unused cars)
  • Behavioral shifts (Airbnb: spare rooms)
  • Technological convergence (smartphone enabling everything)
  • Regulatory arbitrage (operate where rules don't exist yet)

Read the full file on GitHub · 131 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 4d ago First seen · 131 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A d9d610977689

Subscribe to this mod's changes

advisor-visionary is a skill published in the GitHub repository backchainai/backchain-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,009 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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