# Strategize

> Adaptive multi-phase reasoning for complex problems

- Skill: `synapseradio/strategize` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add synapseradio/strategize`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/synapseradio/strategize/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: synapseradio (https://skillmd.com/u/synapseradio)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/synapseradio/strategize

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Follow these steps:

### 1. Initialize

Target: `$ARGUMENTS`, else ask for clarification. Choose a descriptive working name (e.g. "api-architecture-exploration") so later turns can reference it. Tell the user: "Working on: [name]". Go to step 2.

### 2. Understand

1. Decompose the task into components at natural joints.
2. State understanding and invite correction: "I understand this as [restatement]. Is that right?"
3. **STOP. Wait for user response.**

- Confirms → **go to step 3**
- Corrects, questions, or adds constraints → **repeat step 2** with the new information

### 3. Reason (main loop)

Repeat until the user signals done.

**3a. Apply structured reasoning** to the current aspect. Select and chain techniques: argument standardization, fallacy detection, evidence evaluation, assumption surfacing, contrapositive testing, defeater hunting. Present findings as prose woven into the dialogue.

**3b. Await user response.**

**3c. Route on the response:**

- *Continue* ("yes", "go on", "what else", new info) → **go to 3a**, building on prior findings
- *Pivot* ("but what about…", "different angle", pushback) → **go to step 2** with the pivot
- *Done* ("done", "thanks", "got it") → **go to step 4**
- *Ambiguous* ("interesting", "I see", "okay") → ask "Continue, pivot, or done?" and wait

### 4. Exit

Summarize what was explored and concluded. Surface transferable insight worth keeping beyond this session. Identify what remains unresolved and what a successor exploration would address.

## Loop invariants

- **User control**: continue until an explicit "done" signal
- **Reasoning engagement**: each reason phase applies at least one structured technique
- **Transition announcement**: announce phase transitions ("→ UNDERSTAND", "→ REASON")