strategic-mindset

strategic-mindset is a skill for Claude Code from codybrom/clairvoyance. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,009 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review lens for judging whether software was designed for lasting use or only made to work quickly. It also checks for growing technical debt, which is future work caused by shortcuts today.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review rushed code, assess design investment, find tactical shortcuts, and decide when to improve a deteriorating codebase.
Why use it?
It helps reveal when small, locally convenient fixes are making the wider system harder to change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the clairvoyance plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to review rushed code, assess design investment, find tactical shortcuts, and decide when to improve a deteriorating codebase.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codybrom/clairvoyance/strategic-mindset
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.

Any agent
npx skills add codybrom/clairvoyance --skill strategic-mindset
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codybrom/clairvoyance

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install clairvoyance, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent.

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README.md
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Per session 75 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. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00075 $0.01009
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00504
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00202
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00101

Measured 7d ago against content hash 169b6aaa7b19, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-mindset 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 7d 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.

skills/strategic-mindset/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategic Mindset Review Lens

When invoked with $ARGUMENTS, focus the analysis on the specified file, module, or codebase area. Read the target code first, then apply the checks below.

"The first step towards becoming a good software designer is to realize that working code isn't enough." — John Ousterhout, A Philosophy of Software Design

Evaluate whether code invests in design or just gets the job done.

When to Apply

  • When reviewing code written under time pressure
  • When assessing technical debt in a codebase
  • When a developer consistently produces working code that degrades the system
  • When deciding how much time to invest in a design

Core Principles

Strategic vs. Tactical

Tactical Programming

Get it working, move on. Each shortcut is locally defensible. This is precisely what makes it dangerous: it doesn't feel dangerous.

Strategic Programming

Produce a great design that also happens to work. Two modes:

  • Proactive: Explore alternatives before implementing. Write documentation before code to surface interface problems early.
  • Reactive: When you discover a design problem, fix it.

See code-evolution's "Designed This Way" test for the full three-question procedure (what would this look like designed from scratch; does the modification match that; what's the minimum restructuring to close the gap).

The Unit of Development Should Be an Abstraction

Working in abstraction-sized chunks lets you consider trade-offs and arrive at general-purpose solutions. Once you discover the need for an abstraction, design it all at once. Don't create it in pieces over time. Working in test-sized chunks (write one test, make it pass) encourages tiny increments that never step back for the big picture. TDD risks becoming tactical programming with a disciplined veneer. Each increment is responsible, but the aggregate drifts toward specialization because no step encourages holistic design thinking.

The 10-20% Investment Rule

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 7d ago First seen · 88 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 169b6aaa7b19

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strategic-mindset is a skill published in the GitHub repository codybrom/clairvoyance (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,009 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.

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