lifestage-value-curve

lifestage-value-curve is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 130 tokens per session (1,915 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for matching career choices and personal investments to different stages of life, from early learning through later leadership and contribution. It explains how useful strengths can change with age and experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps think through career transitions, long-term development, leadership choices, and goals that fit a person's current life stage.
Why use it?
It helps prevent using the wrong strategy for your current stage, such as prioritising execution when experience and judgement could create more value.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps think through career transitions, long-term development, leadership choices, and goals that fit a person's current life stage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/lifestage-value-curve
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 lifestage-value-curve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,915 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 $0.00130 $0.01915
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.00958
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00192

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9d61304d06e7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lifestage-value-curve 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.

lifestage-value-curve/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.

Lifestage Value Curve

Overview

Different life stages create different competitive advantages and demand different investments. The Lifestage Value Curve maps seven career-life stages from ages 10 to 80. The Golden Age (40-50) is the peak value-contribution window — not peak energy, but peak synthesis of experience, network, and judgment. Applying the wrong stage's strategy wastes each period's comparative advantage.

Use WITH [margin-of-safety] to buffer stage transitions (highest-risk periods). Use BEFORE [okr-goal-setting] to calibrate goal type. Complements [s-curve-technology-adoption] — your career follows an S-curve inside each stage.

When to Use

  • A person in their 20s optimizes for stability when the Heroic Age demands aggressive skill acquisition
  • A person in their 40s still does Heroic Age execution when the Golden Age demands synthesis and leverage
  • A career transition feels disorienting because the old investment pattern no longer works
  • A founder makes decisions appropriate for a 25-year-old but is actually 45

When NOT to use: as a rigid deterministic model; to say someone's window has passed; when the problem is domain skill; when chronological and developmental age diverge significantly.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

Engine mode: user has a concrete case → run The Process directly. Coach mode: user is unfamiliar → 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. One-line what-it-is: "Seven career-life stages, each demanding a different investment. Peak value contribution is usually the 40s — when experience, network, and judgment finally compound."
  2. Check fit: "How old are you, and what stage are you actually in based on what you're building, risking, or protecting?"
  3. Elicit the real case: "What are you investing most heavily in right now — and for whose benefit?"

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Map and question: Map their pattern to the most honest stage; ask if it matches what that stage actually demands.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close with the unlock: "If you invested for [their stage] over the next two years, what would unlock in the next stage that isn't on track now?"

[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. 8d ago First seen · 123 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A 9d61304d06e7

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lifestage-value-curve is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 1,915 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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