Getting it into your agent
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npx skills add fatihguner/foreman --skill stoic-virtue-and-kindnessgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foremanWrote this? Show the measurements
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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 | $0.00104 | $0.03920 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00052 | $0.01960 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00021 | $0.00784 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00392 |
Grade A, and why
stoic-virtue-and-kindness 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 — 205 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 Virtue and Kindness
CHARACTER TAX. There is a cost to being virtuous, and the Stoics never pretended otherwise. Virtue is not free. It demands a daily tax paid in effort, restraint, and the willingness to forgo easier paths. Seneca gave up a fortune trying to extract himself from Nero's court. Marcus Aurelius spent his final years on cold military frontiers when he could have remained in Roman luxury. Epictetus endured slavery and a crippled leg without surrendering his philosophical commitments. The return on this tax is not wealth or status -- it is character. And the Stoic claim, radical in their time and radical still, is that character is not a means to happiness. Character is happiness. Everything else the entrepreneur chases -- revenue, traction, market share -- is at best a lagging indicator of something more fundamental.
"Does the light of a lamp shine and keep its glow until its fuel is spent? Why shouldn't your truth, justice, and self-control shine until you are extinguished?" -- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The Framework
The Stoic treatment of virtue is not a soft appeal to "being nice." It is an architectural argument: that the qualities of character -- justice, kindness, honesty, courage, self-control -- form the load-bearing structure on which every other entrepreneurial achievement depends. Remove them, and the edifice collapses, regardless of how impressive it looks from outside.
The Four Cardinal Virtues in Entrepreneurial Context
The Stoics organised virtue into four categories, each mapping to a distinct entrepreneurial discipline.
Wisdom (Sophia) -- The capacity to distinguish what is within one's control from what is not, and to allocate attention accordingly. In business terms: strategic clarity. The wise entrepreneur does not waste resources fighting uncontrollable market forces; they position the company to benefit from them.
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 · 205 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A 585197cb5f56
stoic-virtue-and-kindness is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 3,920 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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