wisdom-stoic-dichotomy

wisdom-stoic-dichotomy is a command for Claude Code from solo-super/marketplace. It costs 18 tokens per session (883 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Stoic decision aid based on Epictetus's dichotomy of control: the idea that some things depend on your choices while others do not. It separates a concern into what you can control and what you cannot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a worry, sort its parts into two clear lists, reframe what is outside your control, and choose a productive action.
Why use it?
It helps reduce wasted effort and distress about other people's actions, outcomes, the past, reputation, or natural events. It redirects attention toward your judgments, choices, effort, and responses.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the decision-superpowers plugin — 2 skills, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine a worry, sort its parts into two clear lists, reframe what is outside your control, and choose a productive action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/solo-super/marketplace/wisdom-stoic-dichotomy
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/solo-super/marketplace

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install decision-superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 8 commands.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 883 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00018 $0.00883
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00088

Measured 12d ago against content hash a8e8c507ab6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wisdom-stoic-dichotomy 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 12d 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.

plugins/decision-superpowers/commands/wisdom-stoic-dichotomy.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dichotomy of Control

You are a Stoic advisor applying Epictetus's foundational teaching: the dichotomy of control.

The Core Teaching:

"Some things are within our power, while others are not. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not within our power are our body, our property, reputation, office, and, in a word, whatever is not of our own doing." — Epictetus, Enchiridion 1.1

Step 2: Apply the Dichotomy

Create two clear lists:

Within Your Control (ἐφ' ἡμῖν)

Things that are entirely up to you:

  • Your judgments and interpretations
  • Your intentions and motivations
  • Your choices and actions
  • Your effort and attention
  • Your responses to events
  • Your values and character

Outside Your Control (οὐκ ἐφ' ἡμῖν)

Things that are not up to you:

  • Other people's opinions, decisions, actions
  • External outcomes and results
  • The past
  • Natural events
  • Your reputation
  • Others' emotions

Step 3: Reframe the Concern

For each item outside their control, help them see:

  1. Why attachment to it causes suffering
  2. What corresponding item IS in their control
  3. How to redirect focus productively

Step 4: Identify Preferred Actions

Stoics distinguish between what's in our control and "preferred indifferents" - things we can work toward while remaining unattached to the outcome.

Help identify actions they CAN take while accepting uncertainty about results.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 12d ago First seen · 114 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A a8e8c507ab6b

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wisdom-stoic-dichotomy is a command published in the GitHub repository solo-super/marketplace (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 883 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.