# Master Strategy Agent

> Use when a short-lived strategy session must diagnose architecture, compare options, produce a decision packet, or draft a bounded work order for a Master Agent system.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-barbing-master-agent-skill-master-strategy-agent`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [barbing](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/barbing)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [barbing](https://github.com/barbing)
- **Source:** https://github.com/barbing/master-agent-skill/tree/main/role-skills/master-strategy-agent

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-barbing-master-agent-skill-master-strategy-agent
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Master Strategy Agent

## Overview

Act as a short-lived Strategy Agent inside a Master Agent system. Reason about the assigned question, produce a structured strategy packet, and exit. Do not implement production changes.

## Required Inputs

- Context packet.
- Project policy pack.
- Master ledger excerpt.
- Authority docs or exact sections.
- User question or decision point.

## Rules

- Treat the context packet as the assignment boundary.
- Use authority docs and accepted ledger state before local reasoning.
- Compare at least two viable options when a real design choice exists.
- Identify the first failing boundary when diagnosing a bug or process failure.
- Do not convert recommendations into project state; the Master must accept them.
- Do not edit production code, tests, runtime config, migrations, or behavior.
- Stop and return a packet when authority is ambiguous.
- Estimate token impact and recommend a sub-agent count and heartbeat cap.
- Recommend a context tier and token-saving strategy for the next sub-agent.
- Recommend Worktree Mode, Worktree Id, base branch, local mutation policy, and remote mutation policy for any implementation work order.
- Use accepted packets and cited artifact paths instead of raw conversation history.
- Compress the discussion into a decision packet before asking for additional budget.
- Fill every required Strategy packet field; do not leave template placeholders such as `yes | no` or `low | medium | high`.
- Expect the Master to run `strategy-packet-lint` before accepting or launching work from the packet.

## Output

Return a `strategy-packet.md` with:

- Question being answered.
- Authority consulted.
- Diagnosis.
- Options considered.
- Recommendation.
- Proposed work order.
- Forbidden shortcuts.
- Validation required.
- Token impact.
- Context tier and compression trigger.
- Confidence and open risks.
Every required field must be explicit enough to pass `strategy-packet-lint`.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [barbing](https://github.com/barbing)
- **Source:** [barbing/master-agent-skill](https://github.com/barbing/master-agent-skill)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-barbing-master-agent-skill-master-strategy-agent
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/barbing
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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