strategic-reading

strategic-reading is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from timurgaleev/memex. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,620 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of strategic-reading, MIT.

A method for reading a book, article, transcript, or case study to solve one specific strategy problem. It produces an applied playbook rather than a general summary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract relevant ideas, map them to a current problem, and develop short-, medium-, and long-term recommendations.
Why use it?
It connects a large source text to a real decision or conflict, so the useful ideas are easier to act on.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to extract relevant ideas, map them to a current problem, and develop short-, medium-, and long-term recommendations.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/timurgaleev/memex/strategic-reading
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 timurgaleev/memex --skill strategic-reading
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/timurgaleev/memex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,620 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00055 $0.01620
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00648
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00324
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00162

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 74d6585178cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategic-reading 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to strategic-reading — 50 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

deploy/skills/strategic-reading/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

strategic-reading — Applied Analysis from Source Texts

Convention: see conventions/quality.md (via get_skill conventions/quality) for citation rules (every recommendation cites the source) and back-link enforcement.

Convention: see _brain-filing-rules.md (via get_skill _brain-filing-rules) — output pages by primary subject (concepts/ for general strategy, projects/ for problem-tied playbooks).

What this is

Take a large text PLUS a specific strategic problem, produce analysis that maps the text's insights onto the problem. This is not book summarization. This is reading with a mission.

Where book-mirror personalizes a book to the reader's whole life, strategic-reading personalizes it to ONE current problem. Same shape (extract → analyze → mirror), different lens.

Canonical example: a power-dynamics history book read against a specific gatekeeper-vs-incumbent fight, producing a tactical analysis that maps the book's playbook onto the situation with counter-tactics and a short/medium/long-term playbook.

Inputs

  1. Source text — book (EPUB/PDF), article, transcript, historical case study, any large document.
  2. Strategic problem — the specific situation to analyze through the lens of the text. The user describes this explicitly or it's obvious from context.

Output

The brain page is the artifact. PDF is a rendering, never primary.

Brain page structure

# [Source Title] — Applied to [Problem]

> One-paragraph executive summary: how the source maps to the situation,
> the key insight, the bottom line.

## The Core Parallel
How the source's central dynamic maps onto the user's situation.

## Chapter / Section Triage
For each major section of the source:
- 2-3 sentence summary of what it says
- Relevance to the problem: HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW
- One directly applicable quote (if any)

## The Source's Playbook
The author's framework, tactics, or strategies — organized as:
- What the protagonist DID (tactics)
- What WORKED and why
- What FAILED and why
- What OPPONENTS did that was effective

## Counter-Tactics
Specific moves from the source that map to the user's situation:
- What to DO (with source evidence)
- What to AVOID (with source evidence)
- What to WATCH FOR (warning signs from the source)

## Applied Playbook
The synthesis — actionable recommendations:
- **Short-term** (this week / this month)
- **Medium-term** (this quarter)
- **Long-term** (this year+)

## Key Quotes
Direct quotes from the source that are devastatingly relevant.
Maximum 5-10. Quality over quantity.

## See Also
Links to relevant brain pages (related concepts, related projects).

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 1mo ago First seen · 191 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 74d6585178cb

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strategic-reading is a skill published in the GitHub repository timurgaleev/memex (11 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,620 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to strategic-reading, differing in 50 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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