stoic-unbiased-thought

stoic-unbiased-thought is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 117 tokens per session (3,979 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to examining events in simple, factual terms before adding opinions or judgments. It uses Stoic practices such as looking at a situation from a wider perspective and separating observation from interpretation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse setbacks, make decisions more objectively, challenge automatic interpretations, and distinguish what happened from what you think it means.
Why use it?
It helps reduce distorted thinking and emotional assumptions that can make ordinary events seem worse, better, or more personal than they are.

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 analyse setbacks, make decisions more objectively, challenge automatic interpretations, and distinguish what happened from what you think it means.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/stoic-unbiased-thought
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-unbiased-thought
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 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,979 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 $0.00117 $0.03979
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01989
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00796
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00398

Measured 5d ago against content hash c35cbcec6436, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

stoic-unbiased-thought 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 5d 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-unbiased-thought/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 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 Unbiased Thought

Every event is neutral -- what makes it good or bad is the colour of the lens through which you perceive it. Marcus Aurelius, who had more reason than most to see the world as either magnificent or terrible, spent years training himself to do neither. Instead, he practised a form of radical descriptive simplicity: wine is "old grape juice," imperial purple robes are "sheep's wool dyed in shellfish blood," sex is "rubbing and a spasmic discharge." The exercise sounds almost comically reductive, and that is precisely the point. By stripping objects and events of the value judgments we habitually attach to them, the Stoics revealed a startling truth: most of what we believe about the world is not observation but interpretation -- and interpretation, unlike observation, can be trained, corrected, and improved.


The Framework

The Perceiving Eye and the Observing Eye

The Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi distinguished between the "perceiving eye" and the "observing eye." The observing eye sees what is. The perceiving eye sees what things supposedly mean. Marcus Aurelius, writing centuries earlier in a different civilisation, arrived at the same insight: "It isn't events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them."

This distinction has direct operational consequences for entrepreneurs:

Observing Eye Perceiving Eye
Revenue declined 12% this quarter We're failing
A key engineer gave notice He's betraying us
The board asked for a revised forecast They've lost confidence in me
A competitor raised a large round We're going to be crushed

The left column is data. The right column is narrative -- and narrative, once it takes hold, shapes every subsequent decision. The Stoic practice of unbiased thought is the systematic effort to operate from the left column before permitting the right one any influence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 5d ago First seen · 218 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A c35cbcec6436

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stoic-unbiased-thought is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 3,979 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 2026-09-06.

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