model-strategy

model-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from vidhunnan/agentic-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-specific guide for choosing which Claude model to use for different kinds of work, with review rules for important changes. It is created after asking about the project's tasks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set up or update docs/MODEL-STRATEGY.md and decide which model should handle a particular project task.
Why use it?
It replaces ad-hoc model selection with documented choices matched to the work and its risks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the model-strategy plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to set up or update docs/MODEL-STRATEGY.md and decide which model should handle a particular project task.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vidhunnan/agentic-skills/model-strategy
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 vidhunnan/agentic-skills --skill model-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vidhunnan/agentic-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install model-strategy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,526 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 $0.00093 $0.01526
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00763
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00153

Measured 9d ago against content hash c5d5d0f4dd1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-strategy 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/model-strategy/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

model-strategy

Produces a project-specific docs/MODEL-STRATEGY.md: which Claude model does which kind of work, why, and the review rules that guard the highest-stakes changes. It's a decision aid for both the human directing the work and the agent executing it — so model choice stops being ad-hoc.

Two principles:

  • Tailored, not boilerplate. The assignments come from this project's task mix, gathered by a short interview — not a generic template.
  • IDs must be current. Model names and IDs change. Confirm the live lineup every run; never emit an ID you didn't verify this session.

Instructions

Step 0 — Detect your surface

Using Bash availability:

  • Claude Code — write docs/MODEL-STRATEGY.md and register the protocol.
  • Claude.ai — no filesystem; produce the strategy as a downloadable Markdown artifact and skip CLAUDE.md registration (print the block for the user to paste).

Step 1 — Confirm the current Claude lineup (do NOT hardcode stale IDs)

Model tiers and IDs age fast. Before writing anything, confirm the current lineup:

  • If the claude-api skill is available, use it as the source of truth for current model names and IDs.
  • Otherwise, ask the user to confirm the current models, or state clearly which IDs you're using and that they should be verified.

Baseline as of authoring (treat as to be verified, not trusted): Fable 5 = claude-fable-5, Opus 4.8 = claude-opus-4-8, Sonnet 5 = claude-sonnet-5, Haiku 4.5 = claude-haiku-4-5-20251001. Never emit an ID you didn't verify this session.

Step 2 — Create vs. update

  • If docs/MODEL-STRATEGY.md already exists: Read it, bump **Version:**, refresh **Last updated:** (date +%F via Bash), and update in place with Edit — preserving the tailored assignments unless they've changed.
  • Otherwise, create it fresh.

Step 3 — Interview the user (tailoring is the whole point)

Ask a short, relevant set (AskUserQuestion on Claude Code; plain text on Claude.ai), then wait for answers:

  • What are the project's main task categories? (e.g. UI work, infra/architecture, docs, data migrations, boilerplate.)
  • What's the highest-stakes / most review-worthy work — the stuff that must not break?
  • How sensitive is this project to latency vs. answer quality?
  • Does the app itself ship any AI features? (For the "own AI features" clarity section.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 9d ago First seen · 118 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A c5d5d0f4dd1f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

model-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository vidhunnan/agentic-skills (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,526 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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