regret-minimization

regret-minimization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 89 tokens per session (4,696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision framework that imagines looking back from old age and asks which important choice you would regret not making.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for career choices, starting a business, relocations, relationships, major life changes, and other long-term opportunities.
Why use it?
It counters the habit of giving too much weight to short-term fear and too little to long-term regret.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for career choices, starting a business, relocations, relationships, major life changes, and other long-term opportunities.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/regret-minimization
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 guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill regret-minimization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,696 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.
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 $0.00089 $0.04696
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.02348
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00939
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00470

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8dee28f46862, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

regret-minimization 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 9d 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.

skills/thinking/regret-minimization/SKILL.md · 649 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 649 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Regret Minimization Framework

Make decisions that your 80-year-old self will thank you for. Master Jeff Bezos' mental model for bold choices that minimize long-term regret.

When to Use This Skill

  • Career decisions with long-term implications
  • Startup vs. safe job choices
  • Major life pivots (relocations, relationships, changes)
  • Risk-taking decisions where fear is a factor
  • Opportunity evaluation when considering bold moves
  • Any decision you'll look back on in 10-20+ years

Methodology Foundation

Aspect Details
Source Jeff Bezos - The framework he used to decide to start Amazon in 1994
Core Principle "Project yourself forward to age 80. Which choice will you regret NOT taking? Minimize regret for inaction on things that matter."
Why This Matters Most people overweight short-term risk and underweight long-term regret. This framework corrects that bias and enables bold, fulfilling decisions.

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures analysis frameworks Strategic priorities
Synthesizes market data Competitive positioning
Identifies opportunities Resource allocation
Creates strategic options Final strategy selection
Suggests implementation approaches Execution decisions

What This Skill Does

  1. Reframes decisions to long-term view - Cuts through short-term fear
  2. Distinguishes regrets of action vs. inaction - Most regrets are things we didn't do
  3. Evaluates opportunity uniqueness - Is this a one-time window?
  4. Assesses downside survivability - Can you recover if it fails?
  5. Clarifies personal values - What actually matters to you?
  6. Enables bold action - Gives permission to take calculated risks

How to Use

Evaluate a Major Decision

Apply the regret minimization framework to this decision:
[Describe the choice you're facing]
Help me think through what my 80-year-old self would advise.

Read the full file on GitHub · 649 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. 9d ago First seen · 649 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 8dee28f46862

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regret-minimization is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 4,696 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 2026-09-03.

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