Strategy Skills

The strat-* family translates technical decisions into strategic recommendations, roadmaps, and trade-off analyses for engineering leaders and product stakeholders.

Skills

Skill ID	Description	Model Class
`strat-advisor`	Provides strategic recommendations on technical direction, framing risk and opportunity	`strong`
`strat-roadmap`	Generates a phased delivery roadmap with milestones, dependencies, and risk flags	`cheap`
`strat-prioritisation`	Ranks a backlog of initiatives by impact, effort, risk, and strategic alignment	`cheap`
`strat-tradeoff`	Systematic tradeoff analysis: maps options to consequences across time horizon, cost, and capability	`strong`

When to Use

Situation	Skill(s)
Deciding between competing technical approaches	`strat-tradeoff`
Planning a multi-quarter delivery	`strat-roadmap`
Ranking backlog for next sprint/quarter	`strat-prioritisation`
Preparing for executive decision meeting	`strat-advisor` + `strat-tradeoff`

Instructions That Invoke These Skills

strategy — primary consumer; all four coordinated
plan — uses strat-roadmap + strat-prioritisation
enterprise — uses strat-advisor for transformation advisory
research — uses strat-tradeoff for decision synthesis

Dual-Strong Research for High-Stakes Strategy

For strat-tradeoff in critical decisions:

1. Fan-out: 2× GPT-4.1 + 1× GPT-5 mini (free, parallel)
2. First synthesis: GPT-5.4 (consolidate)
3. Final synthesis: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (judgment pass)

Roadmap Output Format

## Q1: Foundation
- [ ] Milestone: Auth service extracted (Week 4)
- [ ] Milestone: Database schema migration (Week 8)
- Risk: vendor API rate limits during migration

## Q2: Scale
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