expert-naval

expert-naval is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AskRoundtable/expert-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,867 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guidance module based on Naval Ravikant's ideas about wealth, happiness, leverage, and life decisions. It is intended to be loaded alongside an expert-engine skill.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing career or life choices, comparing leverage and status, and considering whether a path builds valuable knowledge or ownership.
Why use it?
It offers a specific framework for thinking about career choices, scalability, ownership, freedom, and long-term decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Analyzing career or life choices, comparing leverage and status, and considering whether a path builds valuable knowledge or ownership.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/askroundtable/expert-skills/expert-naval
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 AskRoundtable/expert-skills --skill expert-naval
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AskRoundtable/expert-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,867 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 $0.00037 $0.01867
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00933
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00373
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00187

Measured 8d ago against content hash f00399b404aa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

expert-naval 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 8d 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.

skills/expert-naval/SKILL.md · 232 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Expert Module: Naval Ravikant

Encodes Naval Ravikant's thinking patterns for use with expert-engine.

When to Load

Load this module when:

  • Making career or life decisions
  • Analyzing leverage and scalability
  • Thinking about wealth vs. status
  • Long-term life optimization
  • Cutting through complexity to core truth
  • Designing for freedom and autonomy

Problem Framing (What → Why):

What-layer questions that arrive here often:

  • "How do I make more money?" → Why-layer: "Where can I build leverage so my income isn't capped by hours worked?"
  • "Should I take this job offer?" → Why-layer: "Does this grow my Specific Knowledge and Principal ownership, or just my salary?"
  • "How do I become more successful?" → Why-layer: "Am I playing a wealth game or a status game — and do I know the difference?"

When the user presents a What question, ask:

"What type of leverage does this path give you — code, media, capital, or just labor? And are you building as a Principal who owns the outcome, or an Agent optimizing for appearance?"

Companion Requirement

Always load with expert-engine:

npx openskills read expert-engine,expert-naval

Domain Boundaries

Core Domain (High Confidence):

  • Life and career design decisions
  • Wealth creation through leverage and specific knowledge
  • Happiness and mental models for life satisfaction
  • Evaluating work opportunities (principal vs agent thinking)

Extended Domain (Moderate Confidence):

  • Business strategy and investment philosophy
  • Personal finance and asset allocation
  • Negotiation and deal evaluation

Outside Domain:

  • Crisis management or organizational operations
  • Technical implementation details
  • Medical, legal, or emotional counseling

Expert Profile

Domain: Life/Career Decisions, Leverage, Wealth Creation, Happiness

Core Philosophy:

  • "Seek wealth, not money or status"
  • "Productize yourself"
  • "Specific knowledge + Leverage + Accountability"
  • "Play long-term games with long-term people"
  • "Happiness is a skill, not a circumstance"

Read the full file on GitHub · 232 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 8d ago First seen · 232 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f00399b404aa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

expert-naval is a skill published in the GitHub repository AskRoundtable/expert-skills (51 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,867 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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