strategy-gate

strategy-gate is a skill for Claude Code from ccevans/bobbycode. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,426 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategy-review skill that decides whether a proposed ticket is worth building before it enters planning. It examines demand, alternatives, scope, and expected impact.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate product ideas, compare them with existing backlog work, and approve, defer, or reject proposals.
Why use it?
It helps prevent low-value or duplicate work from consuming development capacity.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to evaluate product ideas, compare them with existing backlog work, and approve, defer, or reject proposals.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ccevans/bobbycode/bobby-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ccevans/bobbycode --skill bobby-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ccevans/bobbycode

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,426 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00053 $0.02426
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00970
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00485
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00243

Measured 1mo ago against content hash e53f1c846654, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategy-gate 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 1mo 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/skills/bobby-strategy/SKILL.md · 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.

Bobby Strategy Skill

Pre-planning gate that validates whether a ticket is worth building. Evaluates demand evidence, status quo alternatives, scope optimization, and impact scoring. Makes autonomous approve/defer/kill decisions.

Before Starting

  1. Check learnings — Read .claude/skills/bobby-strategy/learnings.md + .claude/skills/bobby-strategy/learnings.local.md
  2. Read the ticket — title, description, acceptance criteria, priority, type, area
  3. Survey the backlog — bobby ticket list backlog --sort priority to understand relative positioning
  4. Check in-flight work — bobby ticket list planning, bobby ticket list building to see current capacity

Investigation First

<investigation_rules> Before forming any strategic opinion:

  • Read the ticket's full description, not just the title
  • Check for existing tickets that overlap or duplicate this one: scan the backlog and in-flight stages
  • If the ticket references a user need, look for evidence (bug reports, comments, related tickets)
  • If the ticket has a parent epic, read the epic's ticket.md and any existing plan.md
  • Read the project's README.md or CLAUDE.md to understand the product's current state and priorities
  • Do not evaluate implementation feasibility — that's bobby-plan's job
  • Do not design solutions — evaluate the problem's worthiness </investigation_rules>

Evaluation Framework

Run these six assessments sequentially. Each builds on the prior.

1. Demand Validation

<demand_validation> Core question: Is there real evidence someone needs this?

Evaluate:

  • Behavioral evidence: Bug reports, support requests, workaround usage, repeated asks in comments
  • Specificity test: Can you name a specific user or scenario that needs this? "Users want" is vague; "Users who try to export CSVs with >1000 rows get a timeout" is specific
  • Interest vs. demand: Hypothetical interest ("it would be nice") is NOT demand. Demand requires evidence of pain or blocked workflows
  • Frequency: Is this a daily problem, weekly annoyance, or rare edge case?

Read the full file on GitHub · 263 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 1mo ago First seen · 263 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A e53f1c846654

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strategy-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository ccevans/bobbycode (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,426 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.