Strategist View

The Strategist runs a Book: the leaf where positions actually live. It is the frontier-class judgment of the pod — slow, deliberate, a few calls a day at dollars a call. Its job is to frame: orient at the open, commit a thesis, and author armed plans that carry their own defined-risk exits so the book is never naked. When a regime breaks or a Watcher escalates, the Strategist re-frames.

The seat

Task. Orient at the open; commit a thesis; author armed plans with their own exits; re-frame on a shock or a Watcher escalation. The Strategist authors — it is the seat that writes the plans the rest of the Book runs on.

Timescale. A few times a day, at dollars a call. The Strategist can afford to read a wide, dense screen and think hard about it, because it acts rarely and decisively. This is the opposite end of the latency envelope from the Watcher, which is why the two read different screens.

When it fires. At the open, to frame the session. The Strategist's View is the open View; on a mid-session wake, framing gives way to the Watcher's management loop, and the Strategist is consulted again only on a re-frame.

The View

VIEW strategist-open
  instruments
  levels
  tape
  chain
  acting

The order tracks the framing task. instruments first names what is tradable and how it prices — the multipliers and ticks the thesis will be denominated in. levels fixes the day's geometry: spot against prior close, the high and low, VWAP, the opening range. tape shows how price is moving through that geometry. chain prices the options the plans will actually use, with each fair floored at intrinsic and a bid dark mark called out rather than guessed. acting closes with the kernel's ground truth — positions, resting orders, fills, budget, and the plans already armed — so the frame the Strategist authors from is the real state of the book, not a remembered one.

This is exactly the shipped open default (DEFAULT_OPEN_PANES), which is why the screen below is the open briefing byte-for-byte. When seatViews: "founder" is set, the Strategist at the open resolves to this View; with no seat, the same panes render as the phase default.

The screen

==== SAFETY / CONTROL KERNEL (non-configurable; leads every frame) ====
  frame=OPEN
-- WAKE --
  reason=phase boundary: open orientation  severity=routine  deadline=T-385m to close
-- DATA-HEALTH --
  SPX: bid_present_rate=1.000 two_sided=true stale_s=0.3 dark=false
  SPXW: bid_present_rate=0.960 two_sided=true stale_s=0.4 dark=false
  unavailable capabilities: macro calendar
-- POSITIONS / INVENTORY-CLAIMS --
  flat — no positions / inventory claims
-- RESTING ORDERS --
  none resting
-- BUDGET / REMAINING-R --
  remaining_R=5.00  plan_envelope=1.00  book_envelope=5.00  owner_envelope=10.00
  sizing: UNKNOWN (no sizing headroom)
-- OWNER ENVELOPE + ACTS --
  owner_envelope=10.00
  owner acts: none this session
-- L0/L1 ENGINE LOG --
  engine actions: none
-- PREDICTOR / REGIME CLAIMS --
  regime 1.00 (source=SPX:regime.intraday, modelVer=regime-v1, conf=0.72)

KESTREL · OPEN briefing · T-385m to close · regular · 09:40 ET

instruments:
  SPX index signal  mult 100  tick 0.05
  SPXW option-underlier exec  mult 100  tick 0.05

levels · SPX
  spot 5123.60  ·  prior_close 5108  ·  hod 5127.40  ·  lod 5111.20  ·  vwap 5120.90  ·  or 5112.50–5125

tape 5m · axis 5111.20→5127.40 · anchor @ 09:35 ET
09:35  ───███████───
09:40         ──███████████─
09:45                  ───█████████─
09:50                           ──██████████───
09:55                          ────█████████─
10:00                            ──███───

chain (near-money) · SPX
  strike  R  bid     ask     fair      flags
  5120    C  14.20   14.80   14.50 b76 nLiq=7  —
  5120    P  10.60   11.10   10.80 b76 nLiq=7  —
  5125    C  —       12.30   12 fallback(mid)  bid dark
  5125    P  13.10   13.70   —         —

KERNEL (acting)
positions:
  (none)
resting:
  (none)
fills since last:
  (none)
premium budget: used +0.00 / remaining +500.00  (total 500, maxR 3)
plans:
  or-break: armed
  fade-close: authored

Open vs wake

The Strategist's screen is an open screen: a full orientation from a flat or lightly-held book, dense enough to author a whole session's thesis in one read. It leads with the non-configurable safety kernel — data health, positions, budget, owner envelope — because a frame authored over stale or missing data must fail closed, never fill a guess. It is not a wake screen: it does not lead with what changed since the last look, because at the open there is no "last look" to diff against. That delta-led reading is the Watcher's job; see the Watcher View.

The panes here are the equity-index options variant of the framer's screen — the chain, the intrinsic-floored fair, the expiry-relative session ordinals. The same seat frames other markets through the same View grammar as those variants ship; see the variant axis.