hidden-elite-advantages

hidden-elite-advantages is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for separating the advantages of top performers that can be learned from those that depend on talent, timing, or connections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design a personal development plan, study successful people, coach someone, or assess a potential hire or partner.
Why use it?
It prevents people from wasting effort trying to copy advantages they cannot realistically reproduce. It focuses development on gaps where effort is more likely to help.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to design a personal development plan, study successful people, coach someone, or assess a potential hire or partner.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/hidden-elite-advantages
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 deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill hidden-elite-advantages
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,815 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. Third-party audits
  • 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 $0.00112 $0.01815
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00181

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7b49515f467e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hidden-elite-advantages 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.

hidden-elite-advantages/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Hidden Elite Advantages

Overview

Top performers' results stem from nine hidden advantage dimensions — not visible actions. Replicability differs radically: largely learnable (🟢), partially imitable (🟡), or talent/network-dependent (🔴). The Matthew Effect (Merton, 1968) explains why early advantage compounds non-linearly. Most development programs waste effort on unteachable (red) dimensions while neglecting green ones. Use as a targeting instrument: concentrate on green/yellow gaps, design around red.

Cross-skill composition: AFTER [three-radius-model] (skills-2) to map specific gaps. BEFORE [okr-goal-setting] to set goals only on learnable dimensions. WITH [non-consensus-thinking] (skills-2) for what elite contrarian thinking actually looks like.


When to Use

  • Designing a personal development plan — need to distinguish investable vs. structurally constrained dimensions
  • Studying elite performers — identify which advantages are replicable vs. path-dependent
  • Coaching someone — direct effort to highest-leverage learnable dimensions
  • Evaluating a hire or partner — map advantage profile against your gaps

When NOT to use: Immediate performance improvement needed; no performance history; using it to rationalize inaction ("I lack the right network").


Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

Engine mode: user has a concrete case → run The Process directly. Coach mode: user unfamiliar or no concrete case → guide step by step.

In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.

  1. What it is: Nine behind-the-surface dimensions drive elite results — three replicability levels; developing the wrong ones is wasted effort.
  2. Check fit: Do you have a specific elite performer you're studying and real domain performance data?
  3. Elicit the real case: Which elite performer? Which of their visible results look like talent but might be decades of green-dimension practice?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Run The Process: Rate yourself on green dimensions (mental models, tactics) first. Where is your biggest gap vs. your domain's top performers?

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close: Once you've categorized green/yellow/red in your domain, you can stop trying to develop unteachable advantages and concentrate where compound learning is possible.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 123 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 7b49515f467e

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hidden-elite-advantages is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,815 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-03.

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