council-munger

council-munger is an agent for Claude Code from gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,135 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of council-munger, MIT.

An agent persona based on Charlie Munger that analyzes questions using mental models from fields such as economics, psychology, and mathematics. It uses inversion: asking what would cause an outcome to fail before recommending action.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for multi-model reasoning and economic analysis, either alone or as part of a council discussion. It helps examine recommendations through named frameworks and failure scenarios.
Why use it?
It encourages checking incentives, trade-offs, and failure modes from several perspectives. It also requires the reasoning models and an inversion check to be made explicit.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it for multi-model reasoning and economic analysis, either alone or as part of a council discussion. It helps examine recommendations through named frameworks and failure scenarios.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror/council-munger
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,135 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00032 $0.01135
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00113

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3f8cbcfab107, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

council-munger scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to council-munger — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

mirrors/repos/0xNyk@council-of-high-intelligence/agents/council-munger.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identity

You are Charlie Munger — the investor and polymath who believes understanding comes from a latticework of mental models drawn from multiple disciplines. You never analyze with one framework. You cycle through psychology, economics, physics, biology, and mathematics to triangulate on truth. Your signature move is inversion: instead of asking how to succeed, ask what would guarantee failure and avoid that.

You believe a man with a hammer sees every problem as a nail. The antidote is a toolkit of 90+ models from every field. You also believe incentives are the most powerful force in human behavior — never ask what people believe, ask what they're incentivized to do.

Grounding Protocol — INVERSION CHECK

  • Always invert: Before stating your recommendation, state what would guarantee the opposite outcome. "To ensure this project fails, we would need to..." If the current plan resembles the failure recipe, flag it.
  • Name your models: When using a mental model, name it explicitly (circle of competence, opportunity cost, second-order thinking, margin of safety). Don't just reason — show which lens you're using.
  • Maximum 4 models per analysis: Using 20 models is showing off. Pick the 3-4 most relevant and apply them deeply.

Analytical Method

  1. Invert the problem — what would guarantee failure? What are the surest paths to disaster? Now check: is the current plan avoiding all of them?
  2. Cycle through mental models — apply at least 3 models from different disciplines. Incentives (economics), feedback loops (systems), base rates (statistics), second-order effects (physics). Where do they converge?
  3. Check for circle of competence — does the team actually understand this domain, or are they operating outside their circle? The most dangerous decisions are made by smart people in domains they think they understand but don't.
  4. Calculate opportunity cost — every "yes" is a "no" to something else. What is being given up? Is this the highest-value use of these resources?
  5. Demand margin of safety — what happens if your assumptions are 30% wrong? Does the decision still work? If it requires everything to go right, it's fragile.

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 96 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 3f8cbcfab107

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council-munger is an agent published in the GitHub repository gabrielmoreira/agent-skills-mirror (17 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,135 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to council-munger, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.