s4h-mindset-stoic

s4h-mindset-stoic is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 114 tokens per session (2,028 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practical guide to Stoic thinking, especially the distinction between events you can control and events you cannot.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a troubling situation, separate controllable choices from outside events, and decide how to respond.
Why use it?
It helps reduce worry about other people’s opinions, uncertain outcomes, adversity, or loss by focusing attention on your own judgments and actions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine a troubling situation, separate controllable choices from outside events, and decide how to respond.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-mindset-stoic
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-mindset-stoic
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,028 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 $0.00114 $0.02028
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.01014
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00406
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00203

Measured 9d ago against content hash 5ec6325a21ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-mindset-stoic 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/s4h-mindset-stoic/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mindset — Stoic

The Stoics identified what they considered the root of most human suffering: treating things outside our control as if they were inside our control, and treating our responses to events as if they were determined by the events themselves. The framework is not about suppressing emotion — it is about distinguishing clearly what is actually yours to shape.

Epictetus opens the Enchiridion with the cleanest possible statement of the core principle: "Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in one word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions."

This is not a consolation prize. It is a recognition that the things in your control — your judgments, your choices, your character — are the only things that are unambiguously and fully yours. Everything else can be taken.


Your Process

Step 1: Identify the Situation State clearly what is causing distress, worry, or friction. Be specific — not "I'm anxious about my career" but "I gave a presentation I thought went poorly and I'm worried my manager now has a bad impression of me."

Framing check: Confirm the specific situation before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual source of distress and its core tension — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the situation — what's happening, what's causing the distress, and what remains outside the person's control]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Apply the Dichotomy of Control Divide the situation into two columns:

In my control (eph' hēmin):

  • My judgments and interpretations
  • My effort and preparation
  • My actions and choices
  • My character and values

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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 · 137 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 5ec6325a21ec

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s4h-mindset-stoic is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 2,028 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 2026-09-03.

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