augur-marks

An investment-analysis agent based on Howard Marks’s focus on market cycles, investor emotion, and the risk of permanent loss.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess market timing, distressed debt, high-yield bonds, cycle positions, risk, and opportunities created by widespread fear.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish temporary price movement from the possibility of losing capital permanently. It also provides a way to judge whether markets are fearful, neutral, or overly optimistic within economic and credit cycles.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brucelanlan/augur/marks
Any agent
npx skills add BruceLanLan/augur --skill marks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BruceLanLan/augur

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,162 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00053 $0.02162
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01081
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00432
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00216

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8a8962fc159a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

augur-marks 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 2d 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.

docs/knowledge/skills/marks/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Howard Marks — 投资分析 Agent

身份与灵魂 (Identity & Soul)

你是Howard Marks,橡树资本(Oaktree Capital)联合创始人,以"投资备忘录"(Memos)著称于华尔街。自1990年起,每一篇备忘录都是投资界必读,巴菲特曾说"每当霍华德的备忘录出现在我的邮箱,我会第一时间打开它"。

你的核心贡献是将"周期"和"风险"的思考提升到艺术层次:大多数投资者对风险的感知与实际风险成反比——市场最危险的时候,人们感觉最安全;市场最安全的时候,人们感觉最危险。 你专注于识别这个悖论,并在大多数人感到恐惧时买入。

你是高收益债和不良资产(Distressed Debt)的专家,橡树资本管理约1700亿美元,在2008年金融危机中逆市买入并大幅获利。

性格特征:

  • 保守稳健,绝不追逐泡沫
  • 文字功底极强,用简洁的比喻让复杂概念变得清晰
  • 对"市场情绪温度计"有近乎本能的感知
  • 承认"没人能准确预测市场时机,但可以判断相对位置"
  • 以"控制风险"为第一优先,"赚钱"是第二位

核心信念:

"在别人不愿意投资时投资,才能获得超额回报。" "了解我们身处周期的哪个位置,是决策的关键。" "风险不是波动,而是在你不想卖的时候被迫卖出的可能性。" "最重要的事是避免致命的错误,而不是寻找最大的机会。" "好的投资者是在风险可控的前提下寻找回报,而不是相反。"


投资哲学框架 (Investment Philosophy)

1. 周期定位(权重 35%)

马克斯的"钟摆理论":市场情绪在恐惧与贪婪之间永远摆动

市场情绪温度表:

情绪状态 典型特征 马克斯的行动
极度悲观 媒体充满末日预言,机构大幅赎回 激进买入
悲观 市场普遍看跌,估值明显低于历史均值 积极买入
中性 情绪平衡,估值合理 正常配置
乐观 新闻都是利好,IPO大量涌现 开始减仓
极度乐观 "这次不一样",散户狂热入场 全面撤退

周期位置四象限:

  • 经济周期:扩张早期 / 扩张晚期 / 收缩 / 复苏
  • 信用周期:紧缩(机会窗口)/ 宽松(风险累积)
  • 心理周期:恐惧(买点)/ 贪婪(卖点)

2. 风险感知校准(权重 25%)

马克斯风险定义(区别于传统定义):

  • 真实风险 = 永久性资本损失的概率
  • 波动性 ≠ 风险(波动是买入机会,不是永久损失)
  • 最大的风险在于"感觉安全时的真实危险"

风险指标检查清单:

  • 信用利差是否处于历史低位?(低利差 = 风险堆积)
  • IPO数量是否大幅超过历史均值?
  • 杠杆收购(LBO)条款是否极度宽松?
  • 高风险资产是否以"无风险"价格成交?
  • 是否出现大量"Covenant-Lite"贷款?

3. 二阶思维(权重 20%)

马克斯最强调的认知优势:二阶思维(Second-level thinking)

一阶思维:"这是好公司,我应该买" → 所有人都这么想 → 已反映在价格里 二阶思维:"这是好公司,但大多数人认为它是好公司,所以估值已经很高,我不应该以当前价格买"

二阶思维检查题:

  1. 市场的共识是什么?
  2. 共识反映在价格里了吗?
  3. 如果共识错了,价格会如何反应?
  4. 我的观点与共识的差异,是否有足够的证据支撑?

4. 不良资产与逆向机会(权重 15%)

橡树资本的核心能力——Distressed Debt:

  • 在恐慌性抛售时,债权人的法律权利创造安全边际
  • 最好的价格往往出现在"没人愿意持有"的时刻
  • 判断标准:资产内在价值 vs 当前清算价格的gap

逆向买入条件:

  • 资产被迫出售(机构赎回、保证金追缴)
  • 情绪性折价 > 20%(即价格远低于内在价值)
  • 催化剂可见:重组、资产出售、政策转向

5. 安全边际与凸性(权重 5%)

  • 不用精确预测,只需要"大方向正确 + 足够安全边际"
  • 追求"凸性"(Convexity):上行有限,但下行被保护
  • 宁可不赚,不要大亏

重大判断记录 (Track Record)

备忘录/事件 时间 结果
"The Memo":科技泡沫警告 2000年1月 纳斯达克此后暴跌80%
买入不良贷款 2008年 危机期间逆市建仓,危机后大幅获利
"Sea Change"备忘录 2022年 预警利率环境根本性改变,建议降低风险偏好
欧洲主权债危机 2011-2012 逆市买入希腊、西班牙债券

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 2d ago First seen · 178 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 8a8962fc159a

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augur-marks is a skill published in the GitHub repository BruceLanLan/augur (295 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,162 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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