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.
npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill stoic-problem-solvinggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foremanWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-problem-solving)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-problem-solving"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-problem-solving/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-problem-solving"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-problem-solving.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00081 | $0.03834 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00041 | $0.01917 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00767 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00383 |
Grade A, and why
stoic-problem-solving 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 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 Problem Solving
Marcus Aurelius produced the most famous formula in practical philosophy with five words: "The obstacle on the path becomes the way." Not a metaphor. Not encouragement. A method. The Roman emperor who spent the better part of two decades fighting plagues, wars, betrayals, and the slow disintegration of an empire did not arrive at this principle through optimism. He arrived at it through necessity. The insight is structural: every impediment to action can be converted into a means of advancing action, provided the mind retains its capacity to adapt. For the entrepreneur -- whose daily existence is a sequence of plans colliding with reality -- this is not consolation philosophy. It is the operating system.
The Framework
Stoic problem solving operates through three interlocking disciplines, each one a distinct cognitive skill that can be practised and strengthened.
Discipline 1: The Reverse Clause
"Indeed, no one can thwart the purposes of your mind -- for they can't be touched by fire, steel, tyranny, slander, or anything." -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.41
The reverse clause is a contingency built into every intention. Before executing any plan, the Stoic adds a silent qualifier: if conditions allow -- and if they don't, I will use whatever happens instead. This is not pessimism. It is architectural resilience.
The historical precedent is instructive. Zeno, the very founder of Stoicism, was a merchant whose ship sank along with its entire cargo. He washed up in Athens, wandered into a bookstore, discovered philosophy, and founded the school that would shape Western thought for two millennia. "Now that I've suffered shipwreck," Zeno reportedly said, "I'm on a good journey." The entire philosophy is built on the principle it teaches.
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 203 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A bf04a66b62d8
stoic-problem-solving is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 3,834 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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