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paul-graham-perspective

paul-graham-perspective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Dubaoxu/distillation-skills. It costs 162 tokens per session (7,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A thinking and writing adviser based on Paul Graham’s essays, interviews, and public views. It helps answer questions from his perspective about startups, products, writing, and life choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse startup or product decisions, develop essays, and think through personal choices from Paul Graham’s point of view.
Why use it?
It gives you a consistent way to examine a decision through one person’s ideas instead of starting with a blank page. It can also help when you want feedback shaped by Graham’s style of reasoning.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

not rated 97repo +24 3mo ago A scan 162 tokens custom licence

Good fit Use it to analyse startup or product decisions, develop essays, and think through personal choices from Paul Graham’s point of view.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dubaoxu/distillation-skills/paul-graham-perspective
View source ↗ Dubaoxu/distillation-skills
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 Dubaoxu/distillation-skills --skill paul-graham-perspective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dubaoxu/distillation-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 162 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,203 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 unknown 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 $0.00162 $0.07203
Opus 5.5 $0.00065 $0.02881
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00032 $0.01441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00720

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9ddcb90ca0a9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paul-graham-perspective 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 2mo 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.

nuwa-skill/examples/paul-graham-perspective/SKILL.md · 365 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 2mo ago First seen · 365 lines · 162 tokens per session scan A 9ddcb90ca0a9

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paul-graham-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository Dubaoxu/distillation-skills (97 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 162 tokens to every session and 7,203 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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