What does this skill do?

The Strategist skill helps an agent take a big-picture, impact-focused view of a project — assessing research direction, surfacing the knowledge gaps that block progress, and recommending where to focus.

It maps the known-versus-unknown landscape, weighs gaps by impact and dependencies, flags derailing risks, and presents prioritized recommendations for a human to approve.

It is deliberately scoped: it recommends direction and priorities but does not conduct the research, run calculations, or make the final call — those stay with other roles and the user.

  • Identifies and prioritizes critical knowledge gaps

  • Ranks priorities by impact, dependencies, and effort

  • Flags risks that could derail progress

  • Presents a clear recommendation with rationale for approval

How it works

1

Understand the current state

The agent reviews the project's current state and its relevance to the goals.

2

Map the landscape

It maps major unknowns and dependencies, separating what is well-established, partially known, and a critical unknown.

3

Assess and prioritize

It weighs which gaps matter most by impact and dependencies and flags risks that could derail progress.

4

Recommend and hand off

It presents prioritized recommendations with rationale for user approval, then routes execution to the appropriate role.

Best use cases for this skill

  • Milestone reviews: Assess research direction and priorities at a project milestone.

  • Gap analysis: Identify the knowledge gaps that most block progress.

  • Prioritization: Rank work by impact, dependencies, and effort.

  • Risk flagging: Surface risks that could derail a research direction.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Strategist skill do?

It assesses research direction, identifies and prioritizes critical knowledge gaps, weighs risks, and recommends priorities based on impact, dependencies, and effort.

When should an agent use it?

Use it when research direction needs assessment, critical knowledge gaps must be identified, or priorities must be recommended — especially at project milestones or when scope questions arise.

What is it not responsible for?

It does not conduct research, perform calculations, manage task-level details, or make final priority decisions — those belong to other roles and the user.

What does it produce?

Strategic assessments, priority recommendations, risk analyses, gap-identification reports, and research-direction proposals.

Use from source

Ask your Buda agent to install this community skill.

Copy this prompt into your own Buda agent. It includes the source repository and install command so the agent can complete the setup in natural language.

Prompt to send to your Buda agent
Please install the "Strategist Skill" skill into this Buda agent.

Source repository: https://github.com/dangeles/claude
Install command: npx skills add dangeles/claude --skill strategist -y -a universal

Please run the install command, verify the skill is available, and tell me any setup notes or follow-up steps from the source repository.
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Install workflow

  1. 1Copy the prompt
  2. 2Send it to your Buda agent
  3. 3Done