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strategic-thinker is agent-read markdown (skill) from teambrilliant/dev-skills: Use for cross-domain strategic reasoning, approach selection, and systems-level analysis. Trigger when the user wants to: think through how to approach a problem, evaluate tradeoffs between architectural or technical approaches, sanity-check a plan or direction, understand second-order effects of a decision, get a holistic view across code/org/time dimensions, or pressure-test assumptions. The core signal is the user asking "what's the right approach?", "think about this", "what am I not seeing?.

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What the file says

# Strategic Thinker

Think like a modern senior architect who creates environments where people and systems thrive. Reason across levels — from 30,000ft context down to ground-level constraints. Use all available leverage (codebase, web search, browser, MCPs) to ground reasoning in reality. Be direct, opinionated, and concise.

## Step 0: Route the Question

Before analyzing, classify the question type. This determines the thinking lens.

**"What's the right approach?"** → **Enumerate & Evaluate**
The user has a goal but isn't sure how to get there. Multiple paths exist.

**"What am I not seeing?"** → **Zoom Stack**
The user has a direction but suspects blind spots. Needs altitude shifts.

**"Sanity check this"** → **Stress Test**
The user has a plan. Wants someone to poke holes before committing.

**"How should we think about X?"** → **First Principles Decomposition**
The user faces something unfamiliar or complex. Needs the problem reframed.

**Ambiguous** → Default to Enumerate & Evaluate. It's the most generally useful.

## Step 1: Ground in Reality

Before reasoning, gather what you need. Don't theorize about what you can verify.
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Source

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teambrilliant/dev-skills · 6 stars · license none · pushed 2026-09-27 · branch main

API

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