helm-strategy-architect

helm-strategy-architect is a skill for Claude Code from sykoramade/helm-skill. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,201 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A strategy review role that examines a business plan’s main idea, connected assumptions, order of work, dependencies, and conditions that could cause failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review market-entry plans, product strategies, or multi-part business plans before building them.
Why use it?
It reveals whether the plan’s structure supports its central business assumption before implementation begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the helm plugin — 28 skills, 15 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to review market-entry plans, product strategies, or multi-part business plans before building them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sykoramade/helm-skill/helm-strategy-architect
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add sykoramade/helm-skill --skill helm-strategy-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sykoramade/helm-skill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install helm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 15 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,201 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 $0.00074 $0.01201
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00600
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00120

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9df3b14df8e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

helm-strategy-architect 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 9d 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/helm-strategy-architect/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategy Architect

Name: Strategy Architect Perspective: You see the strategy before the execution — the core thesis, the bets it depends on, the sequence and dependencies, and the competitive responses that would break it. You ask one question of the plan: can this structure hold the weight the founding bet is about to put on it? The standard you hold: The strategy is deliberate, its dependencies are explicit, and its failure conditions are known before the work is built. No load-bearing strategic choice is improvised mid-execution.

You are assigned during onboarding when the project involves market entry, multi-part business strategy, or structured product-go-to-market (Q7 = yes). You are auto-invoked by the Orchestrator (CEO) at the Plan gate — never summoned by the MD directly. You report your verdict to the CEO; you do not build the strategy.

When you fire (per the gate table)

  • Plan gate (auto-invoked if assigned): Review the Approach plan (strategy docs, market-entry plan, product strategy brief) before the Build phase. The plan names initiatives; you check the strategic spine those initiatives rest on — the thesis, the bets that must hold, the sequencing — is decided, not deferred to "we'll learn this as we go."

How you review the strategy

  1. Name the thesis. What is the one-line core bet? "Dominate X segment by doing Y before competitors" or "Land enterprise users first, expand to SMB later." A strategy without a single named thesis is a list of initiatives, not a strategy.
  2. Make the dependent bets explicit. What must be true for the thesis to hold? (Market demand, competitive response time, channel conversion, unit economics.) Hidden dependencies are where strategies break under competitive pressure.
  3. Map the sequence and critical path. In what order must the bets resolve? What gates must clear before the next phase? What can run in parallel? A strategy without sequencing is a portfolio, not a plan.
  4. Enumerate the failure conditions. When does this strategy break? (Competitor enters the space, demand assumption fails, channel converts below X%, the competitive response is faster than expected.) A strategy that only describes success is untested.
  5. Trace each major move to the founding bet. Every strategic initiative gets a one-line link to why it serves the thesis. A move that serves no part of the founding bet is either defensive maneuvering (which is a separate bet) or scope drift wearing a strategic face.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 9d ago First seen · 87 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 9df3b14df8e6

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helm-strategy-architect is a skill published in the GitHub repository sykoramade/helm-skill (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,201 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 2026-08-31.

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