stoic-duty-and-service

stoic-duty-and-service is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 82 tokens per session (4,358 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to Stoic ideas about duty, service, and responsibility, applied to entrepreneurial leadership. It treats a business leader's obligations to employees, customers, investors, and the wider community as part of the work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to think through leadership duties, accountability, service to others, motivation, and the responsibilities involved in building an organisation.
Why use it?
It helps founders connect daily responsibilities with a broader purpose instead of viewing leadership only as a source of pressure or profit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to think through leadership duties, accountability, service to others, motivation, and the responsibilities involved in building an organisation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-duty-and-service
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill stoic-duty-and-service
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,358 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 $0.00082 $0.04358
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.02179
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00872
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00436

Measured 6d ago against content hash cf6acfa75ba5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stoic-duty-and-service 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 6d 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.

plugins/foreman/skills/stoic-duty-and-service/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Stoic Duty and Service

The Stoics believed life is a debt -- and the repayment is service to others. This was not sentimentality. Marcus Aurelius, who could have spent his reign in palaces eating grapes, instead spent it on the frozen Danube frontier, adjudicating legal disputes and commanding legions against Germanic tribes. He did this not because he enjoyed it (his private journals make clear he often did not) but because it was his duty. The Greek word he used was praxeis koinonikas apodidonai -- to render works held in common. Epictetus, a former slave who had every reason to reject the social contract, taught duty with even greater intensity: your station is assigned; excellence lies in how you occupy it. For the entrepreneur, who has voluntarily assumed responsibility for employees, investors, customers, and a mission, the Stoic framework of duty transforms obligation from weight into architecture -- the very structure that gives the enterprise meaning.


The Framework

Stoic duty operates at three concentric levels, each one expanding the founder's sense of purpose beyond the self.

Level 1: Sympatheia -- The Interconnected Whole

"Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe." -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.38

Sympatheia is the Stoic doctrine of universal interconnection -- the recognition that every person, event, and action is part of a single, interdependent system. This is not mysticism. It is systems thinking expressed in ancient Greek. The founder who grasps sympatheia understands that their company is not an island. It exists within a web of suppliers, customers, communities, ecosystems, and human lives. Every decision propagates outward through that web. Hiring decisions shape families. Pricing decisions shape markets. Product decisions shape behaviour.

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 6d ago First seen · 202 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A cf6acfa75ba5

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stoic-duty-and-service is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 4,358 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-06.

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