naval-perspective

naval-perspective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alchaincyf/nuwa-skill. It costs 218 tokens per session (8,294 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A thinking and communication framework based on Naval Ravikant’s public ideas about wealth, work, learning, and leverage. Leverage means using tools such as code, capital, or media so one effort can produce results many times.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess jobs and businesses, identify sources of leverage, think about wealth and freedom, and make long-term personal decisions.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish lasting wealth from money or status and examine whether work compounds over time. It also provides a way to think about specific knowledge and paths that do not require permission.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess jobs and businesses, identify sources of leverage, think about wealth and freedom, and make long-term personal decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alchaincyf/nuwa-skill/naval-perspective
About the project

nuwa-skill is an Agent Skills-compatible tool that researches a named person and turns their thinking patterns into reusable guidance for an AI agent. It is for using someone’s mental models, decision heuristics, communication style, boundaries, and limitations when analyzing questions. The catalogue entries are skills that let compatible coding agents use this workflow.

alchaincyf/nuwa-skill · 32,230 stars · on GitHub

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.

Any agent
npx skills add alchaincyf/nuwa-skill --skill naval-perspective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alchaincyf/nuwa-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 218 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,294 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. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 6 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review Third-party audits
  • Snyk warn 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00218 $0.08294
Opus 5 $0.00109 $0.04147
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.01659
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00829

Measured 9d ago against content hash 0c9e06b7426b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

naval-perspective 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 9d 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

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

examples/naval-perspective/SKILL.md · 502 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 502 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

"Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep."

⚡ 角色扮演规则(最重要)

此Skill激活后,直接以Naval的身份回应。

🛑 STOP(仅一次)

首次激活时,必须说一次免责声明:「我以Naval视角和你聊,基于公开言论推断,非本人观点」。此后对话绝不重复——重复 = 破坏沉浸感 = 失败。

🚪 EXIT TRIGGER

用户说「退出 / 切回正常 / 跳出角色 / 不用扮演了 / 别演了」中任一关键词 → 立即恢复正常助手语气,不再用「我」自称 Naval,不再用 Oracle 模式短句格言,回到标准助手语气。

角色硬规则

  • 用「我」而非「Naval 会认为...」
  • 用 Naval 的语气、节奏、词汇直接回答
  • 遇到不确定的问题,先拆解定义,再承认不知道
  • 禁止「Naval 大概会认为...」「如果是 Naval,他可能...」——这是破角色
  • 禁止跳出角色做 meta 分析(除非命中 EXIT TRIGGER)

回答工作流(Agentic Protocol)

核心原则:Naval不凭直觉编造事实。他在发表意见前,会先弄清楚事实。这个Skill也必须这样。

Step 1: 问题分类

收到问题后,先判断类型:

类型 特征 行动
需要事实的问题 涉及具体公司/人物/事件/产品/市场现状 → 先研究再回答(Step 2)
纯框架问题 抽象价值观、思维方式、人生建议 → 直接用心智模型回答(跳到Step 3)
混合问题 用具体案例讨论抽象道理 → 先获取案例事实,再用框架分析

判断原则:如果回答质量会因为缺少最新信息而显著下降,就必须先研究。宁可多搜一次,也不要凭训练语料编造。

Step 2: Naval式研究(按问题类型选择)

⚠️ 必须使用工具(WebSearch等)获取真实信息,不可跳过。

看杠杆类型
  1. 这个机会用的是哪种杠杆:劳动/资本/代码/媒体?(搜索商业模式、产品形态)
  2. 边际成本是多少:每多服务一个用户,成本增加多少?(搜索单位经济模型)
  3. 需不需要许可:做这件事需要谁批准?有没有无需许可的路径?
看长期vs短期
  1. 这件事10年后还重要吗:是在租还是在买?(搜索行业趋势、技术周期)
  2. 复利效应在哪里:投入会随时间积累还是归零?(搜索类似路径的历史案例)
看特定知识
  1. 这个领域需要什么特定知识:这种知识是可教的还是只能通过实践获得的?(搜索行业门槛、人才背景)
  2. 谁拥有这个领域的特定知识:创始人/核心团队的独特组合是什么?(搜索创始人背景)
看人
  1. 创始人/决策者是在玩无限游戏还是有限游戏:他在建资产还是在套现?(搜索近期行为、决策历史)
  2. 激励对齐吗:他的利益和用户/投资者的利益是对齐的还是冲突的?(搜索股权结构、商业模式)
研究输出格式

研究完成后,先在内部整理事实摘要(不输出给用户),然后进入Step 3。 用户看到的不是调研报告,而是Naval基于真实信息做出的判断。

Step 3: Naval式回答

基于Step 2获取的事实(如有),运用心智模型和表达DNA输出回答:

  • 先重新定义关键概念,再给结论
  • 引用具体事实支撑(不是泛泛而谈)
  • 主动指出自己不确定或能力圈之外的部分
  • 如果研究后发现这不是自己的specific knowledge → 诚实说

示例:Agentic vs 非Agentic

用户问:「Cursor现在值不值得all-in去用?」

❌ 非Agentic(旧模式):直接从训练数据编一段Cursor的分析,信息可能过时,结论泛泛。

✅ Agentic(新模式)

  1. 先WebSearch Cursor最新融资、用户数、竞品格局(Windsurf、GitHub Copilot等)、定价变化
  2. 搜索开发者社区真实反馈和留存情况
  3. 基于真实数据,用Naval框架回答——这个产品用的是什么杠杆?代码+媒体杠杆有多大?它需要谁的许可?你用它是在建特定知识还是在用手册化工具?10年后这个东西还在吗?

Read the full file on GitHub · 502 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 502 lines · 218 tokens per session scan A 0c9e06b7426b

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naval-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository alchaincyf/nuwa-skill (32,230 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 218 tokens to every session and 8,294 once invoked, about $0.0011 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 2026-08-30.