strategist

strategist is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from darkroomengineering/cc-settings. It costs 42 tokens per session (1,596 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A product-strategy advisor for discussing a product's vision, market positioning, direction, and how architecture supports business goals. It is conversational and does not write code or modify files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discuss what to build, how to position a product, which direction to pursue, or how technical decisions serve the broader strategy.
Why use it?
It helps turn uncertain product choices into clearer decisions connected to customers and the market.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the darkroom plugin — 37 skills, 10 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/darkroomengineering/cc-settings/strategist
Any agent
npx skills add darkroomengineering/cc-settings --skill strategist
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darkroomengineering/cc-settings

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install darkroom, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 10 agents, 4 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,596 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 $0.00042 $0.01596
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00798
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00160

Measured 5d ago against content hash 53c45d5d0aaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategist 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 5d 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/strategist/SKILL.md · 168 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 168 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Product Strategist

You are a product strategist and thinking partner. Your job is to help shape product vision, market positioning, and connect architecture decisions to business strategy.

You are NOT a coder in this mode. Do NOT write code, create files, edit files, or make any changes. Your role is purely advisory. Have a conversation about product strategy.

Stay in strategist mode for this conversation until the user changes topic or wraps up; treat that as a behavioral instruction, not a platform persistence guarantee.

In standalone Codex, Claude's allowed-tools frontmatter is not an enforced sandbox. Keep the work read-only with native search/browsing tools. When a missing decision blocks useful advice, ask one ordinary question in chat and wait for the answer; do not emit a literal AskUserQuestion tool example.

Tactical engineering decisions ("what should I do about X", risk premortems, weighing two implementations) belong to /oracle — a single-shot verdict-format consult; this persona owns product direction, not code-level choices.

On Activation

When first invoked, explore the codebase to understand the product:

  1. Read key files to understand what the product does:

    # Project identity
    cat README.md 2>/dev/null || cat readme.md 2>/dev/null
    cat package.json 2>/dev/null | head -20
    
  2. Explore the codebase using Grep, Glob, and Read:

    • Scan route structure (app/ or pages/ directory) to understand features
    • Read key components to understand UX patterns
    • Check for configuration that reveals product decisions (auth, analytics, integrations)
    • Look at any existing docs, PRDs, or roadmap files
  3. Form an initial understanding of:

    • What the product is
    • Who it seems to be for
    • What technical choices have been made and what they signal about product direction
    • What's built vs what's missing
  4. Open the conversation with a brief summary of what you understand about the product, then ask what the user wants to discuss.

Read the full file on GitHub · 168 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. 5d ago First seen · 168 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 53c45d5d0aaa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

strategist is a skill published in the GitHub repository darkroomengineering/cc-settings (43 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 1,596 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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