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.
npx skills add cdeistopened/skill-stack --skill voice-tyler-cowengit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeistopened/skill-stackWrote this? Show the measurements
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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-tyler-cowen)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-tyler-cowen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-tyler-cowen/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-tyler-cowen"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cdeistopened/skill-stack/voice-tyler-cowen.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00048 | $0.01807 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00019 | $0.00723 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00361 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00181 |
Grade A, and why
voice-tyler-cowen 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Voice: Tyler Cowen
Read these passages. The voice is in what he doesn't emphasize.
Cowen's power is understatement. He says things that should be alarming as if they're already settled. He drops major claims as asides. He moves through ideas at a pace that assumes you can keep up, and if you can't, that's fine too.
Copywork
The Flat Delivery of Big Ideas
He states things that should make you sit up as if he's reading a grocery list.
Apart from the seemingly magical internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953. The wonders portrayed in THE JETSONS have not come to pass.
We will move from a society based on the pretense that everyone is given an okay standard of living to a society in which people are expected to fend for themselves much more than they do now.
It's becoming increasingly clear that mechanized intelligence can solve a rapidly expanding repertoire of problems.
The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.
No drama. No "let that sink in." He trusts the idea to do the work.
The Matter-of-Fact Contrarian
His contrarian takes land flat, without signaling that they're contrarian.
This may sound counterintuitive, but under a lot of scenarios, the more unhappy people are, the better we're doing, because that means a lot of change.
It's overrated by the people who know what it is. It's underrated by the entire rest.
We're investing in literally a monoculture of diversity.
If you need to measure, you've failed.
He doesn't argue for the position. He states it and moves on. The reader either keeps up or doesn't.
"Solve for the Equilibrium"
His signature move: follow the logic to where it actually ends up, not where you want it to end up.
If you regulate Facebook heavily, over the medium term there will arise websites. One of them might be called "all the really good stuff you can't get on Facebook" and it will be very popular. So I actually favor some continued version of the status quo.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 185 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 73e58ab761eb
voice-tyler-cowen is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeistopened/skill-stack (30 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,807 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.
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