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Agency Domain

Strategy Agency

Control how your agent handles goals, priorities, and strategic direction.

The Strategy agency governs how your agent sets and adjusts goals, priorities, and overall direction. This is one of the most impactful domains because strategic decisions ripple through everything else your agent does.

What Strategy Covers

Strategic actions include setting new objectives, reprioritizing existing goals, shifting focus areas, recommending pivots, and making high-level decisions about where to invest time and energy. When your agent suggests "we should focus on user retention instead of acquisition," that is a strategic action.

Oversight Levels

Silent

Your agent sets direction independently based on its understanding of your prime directive, current context, and past decisions. It might reprioritize your objectives, suggest new goals, or shift focus without asking. This works well when you have established a strong prime directive and trust your agent's judgment. Your agent still logs every strategic decision, so you can review the reasoning later.

For example, if your agent notices that a project is underperforming, it might independently deprioritize it and shift resources to a more promising initiative.

Report

Your agent makes strategic decisions and notifies you afterward. You get a summary like "I've reprioritized your objectives based on last week's progress. User onboarding is now the top priority." You stay informed and can course-correct if needed, but your agent is not blocked waiting for approval.

This is a good default for most users. You maintain awareness of directional changes without slowing your agent down.

Approval

Your agent proposes strategic changes and waits for your go-ahead. You might see a message like "Based on current metrics, I recommend shifting focus from feature development to stability improvements. Should I update the plan?" Nothing changes until you approve.

Use this when you want to stay tightly involved in direction-setting, or during critical phases where a wrong turn would be costly.

When to Use Each Level

Strategy is a domain where many people start with Approval and gradually move to Report as trust builds. The risk of a bad strategic decision is usually moderate. It is rarely irreversible since you can always change direction, but correcting course after your agent has already acted on a new strategy takes more effort than approving the change upfront.

If you have a well-defined prime directive that clearly expresses your values and priorities, Report is a comfortable choice. If your goals are still forming or you are in a period of rapid change, Approval gives you tighter control.