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.
npx skills add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills --skill strategic-thinkinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/strategic-thinking)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/strategic-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/strategic-thinking/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/strategic-thinking"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/strategic-thinking.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00121 | $0.00763 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00060 | $0.00381 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00153 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00076 |
Grade A, and why
strategic-thinking 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 12d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Strategic Thinking
Strategy is choosing what not to do as much as what to do. End with explicit bets and guardrails.
How to run it with this skill: one clearly headed section per phase in this order: Intent → Landscape → Advantage → Options → Choice → Risks & Cadence. Optional Short story subsection only when Setup calls for it.
Setup (run before starting)
In one short block:
- Strategic question — one sentence (e.g. "How should we win in X given Y?")
- Default pass — Intent → Landscape → Advantage → Options → Choice → Risks & Cadence (state this line)
If goals, constraints, or non-negotiables are missing, ask at most 3 questions in one message, then proceed. Note any remaining gaps or working guesses in plain language (no bracket tags in Setup).
If the user asked for a memo or deck storyline, add after Risks & Cadence a Short story subsection (5–7 sentences: tension → insight → decision → proof path).
The Phases
Intent
Win definition — what outcome in what timeframe? Non-goals — what is explicitly out of scope?
Landscape
Forces that matter: customers, competition, technology, regulation, economics. Use Implication: bullets — not encyclopedic lists.
Advantage (or Honest gap)
Where could durable advantage come from — assets, learning loops, distribution, data, brand, cost? If none is credible, say so and pivot to options to build advantage.
Options
2–4 mutually distinct strategies or postures. For each:
Option: … — Bet: … — Cost: … — Kill signal: …
Choice
Name one primary option (or parallel bets if truly justified). Explain why now and what you are deferring or rejecting.
Risks & Cadence
Top 3 risks with mitigations. 90-day focus, 12-month thesis, and review trigger (metric or event that forces rethink).
Execution Rules
- Choice must reference Options; do not introduce a new strategy in the final section without labeling it a revision.
- Avoid generic platitudes ("innovate", "customer-centric") without a mechanism.
- If information is thin, keep Landscape short and say plainly what is unknown instead of fabricating market facts.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 85 lines · 121 tokens per session scan A 7a572beb4a18
strategic-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills (8 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 121 tokens to every session and 763 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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