stoic-pragmatism

stoic-pragmatism is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 94 tokens per session (4,262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide to turning philosophical ideas into simple actions, with an emphasis on realism, efficiency, and avoiding unnecessary complexity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify decisions, focus on useful action, and connect strategy with daily execution.
Why use it?
It helps when planning has replaced doing or when a team is making work harder than it needs to be.

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 simplify decisions, focus on useful action, and connect strategy with daily execution.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-pragmatism
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 fatihguner/foreman --skill stoic-pragmatism
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 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,262 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 $0.00094 $0.04262
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.02131
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00852
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00426

Measured 4d ago against content hash 781a7f9b0366, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stoic-pragmatism 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 4d 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-pragmatism/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 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 Pragmatism

Marcus Aurelius was both philosopher and emperor -- the tension between those roles produced the most pragmatic philosophy ever written. Plato had imagined a utopia governed by a philosopher-king. Marcus lived the reality and discovered what Plato could not have anticipated: that the demands of governing an empire -- plagues, wars, famines, betrayals, Senate politics, logistical nightmares on three continents -- leave no room for philosophy that does not work when applied. His Meditations were not written for publication. They were private notes, scrawled in campaign tents and palace chambers, by a man trying to close the gap between what he believed and what he did. That gap -- between theory and practice, between knowing and doing, between the philosophy lecture and Monday morning -- is the central problem of every founder who has ever attended a conference, read a business book, and returned to the office to find that nothing has changed.


The Framework

Stoic pragmatism is built on a single, uncomfortable premise: philosophy that does not change behaviour is entertainment. Seneca put it without decoration: philosophy "is not concerned with words, but with facts. It's not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, it gives order to life, guides action."

Principle 1: Habit Over Theory

"When the problem arose whether habit or theory was better for getting virtue, Musonius thought habit to be more effective." -- Musonius Rufus, Lectures, 5

Knowledge without practice is worse than useless -- it creates the illusion of competence. The founder who has read every book on management but cannot conduct a productive one-on-one is not educated; they are dangerously misinformed about their own capabilities.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. 4d ago First seen · 206 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 781a7f9b0366

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stoic-pragmatism is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 4,262 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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