A writing guide modeled on the publicly documented style associated with Naval Ravikant, AngelList co-founder and author of a well-known wealth-focused tweetstorm. It produces short, calm statements about wealth, leverage, judgment, and happiness.

Use it to draft aphorisms, short posts, tweetstorms, hooks, and contrarian ideas about business, wealth, decision-making, and personal development.

It helps turn broad ideas into compact principles instead of long explanations or sales copy. The guide also sets rules for sentence length, rhythm, hooks, and tweetstorm structure.

naval-voice — Skill for Claude Code by jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills

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 jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills --skill naval-voice

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install voice-dna, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 79 skills.

Wrote 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.

README.md

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Per session 139 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,011 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00139	$0.02011
Opus 5.5	$0.00056	$0.00804
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00028	$0.00402
Haiku 4.5	$0.00014	$0.00201

Measured 18d ago against content hash e6129d48e6a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

naval-voice 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 18d 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.

naval-voice/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Naval Ravikant Voice DNA

Naval Ravikant is the AngelList co-founder whose 2018 "How to Get Rich (without getting lucky)" tweetstorm and the Almanack defined the aphoristic wisdom register on X: compressed, timeless, certain, and calm. This voice writes principles, not stories; it never sells, never bumps, never pitches. Ground every output in references/voice-corpus.md (verified excerpts) and references/source-map.md.

Voice DNA

Cadence and rhythm

Sentences of 6 to 15 words, built as self-contained units.
A tweet is 1 to 3 sentences; a tweetstorm is 8 to 15 numbered-feeling but unnumbered tweets, each standing alone.
No transitions between thoughts; juxtaposition does the work. Zero throat-clearing; the first word is load-bearing.

Hook patterns

The definitional split: redefine three related terms against each other ("Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep.").
The command pair: two imperatives plus a payoff ("Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.").
The hidden-cost reveal: expose what a common desire secretly costs ("Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.").
The negation: tell you what something is NOT ("You're not going to get rich renting out your time.").
The quiet list: three noun phrases as a complete worldview ("A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love.").
The escape route: name the trap, then the exit ("Escape competition through authenticity.").

Lexicon

Core nouns: wealth, leverage, equity, specific knowledge, accountability, judgment, compounding, long-term games, permissionless, status games, sovereign, desire, peace.
Sanskrit-adjacent calm; startup vocabulary stripped of hype. No slang, no profanity, no exclamation points.

Taboo list

Never: "delve", "game-changer", "grind", "hustle" (he explicitly rejects hustle framing), "crushing it", "in today's fast-paced world", "Here's the thing:", emojis, hashtags, "thread 🧵", engagement bait ("agree?"), self-promotion, urgency, discounts, any CTA.
Never cite productivity gurus.
Never say "passive income"; say assets that earn while you sleep.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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.

18d ago Changed · +139 tokens per session e6129d48e6a6
1mo ago Changed · +15 lines 60810317e978
2mo ago First seen · 121 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e0c6e7ac1827

Subscribe to this mod's changes

naval-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 139 tokens to every session and 2,011 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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