strategy-first-development

strategy-first-development is a skill for Codex from tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills. It costs 162 tokens per session (6,344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning workflow for agreeing on a product’s direction, researching established projects, choosing technologies, and documenting the roadmap before complex development begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning new products, multi-page web apps, AI products, full-stack systems, architecture changes, and technology or deployment-provider choices.
Why use it?
It reduces arbitrary technology choices, duplicated infrastructure, and development that starts before the team agrees on goals and constraints.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for planning new products, multi-page web apps, AI products, full-stack systems, architecture changes, and technology or deployment-provider choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills/strategy-first-development
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills --skill strategy-first-development
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,344 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 $0.00162 $0.06344
Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.03172
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.01269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00634

Measured 9d ago against content hash 72d19fca637a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

strategy-first-development 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.

own-skills/strategy-first-development/SKILL.md · 500 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 500 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Strategy First Development

Turn a vague or high-impact product/engineering request into a shared control plane before coding. Prevent arbitrary stacks, one-off UI, duplicate infrastructure, and custom engines chosen from memory instead of evidence.

This skill is a development workflow, not a skill-creation or prompt-review workflow. For skill creation, skill review, prompt review, or agent-definition review, route to the relevant skill-specific workflow instead.

Core Contract

CRITICAL: Complete strategic consensus, reference-project research, and the applicable technology-selection gate before presenting a stack as settled or starting implementation.

When technology selection is in scope, MUST read Technology Selection Protocol completely and run its SELECT_STACK procedure. Mature-product research and per-capability library selection are separate evidence layers; completing one does not satisfy the other.

Only materialize-strategy and the strategy phase of plan-then-implement may create or update the default artifacts:

AGENTS.md, docs/product/strategy.md, docs/product/north-star.md, docs/architecture/technical-stack.md, and docs/product/roadmap.md.

discuss-only and strategy-packet MUST NOT write files. All modes may surface assumptions, gaps, and provisional decisions.

CRITICAL: Strategy artifact materialization may create or update documentation artifacts only. It MUST NOT modify production app code, install dependencies, scaffold runtime modules, change deployment files, run destructive operations, or claim implementation completion unless a later implementation gate is explicitly passed.

For user-facing products, MUST define the project-specific AI/agent role and user-visible experience. Shipped UI MUST NOT expose planning notes, prompts, chain-of-thought, provider/model names, debug text, TODOs, or implementation workflow labels unless the product is explicitly a developer or observability tool.

Read the full file on GitHub · 500 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 9d ago First seen · 500 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A 72d19fca637a

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strategy-first-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository tranfu-labs/tranfu-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 6,344 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-09-03.

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