What is peter-thiel-voice?

A writing guide for contrarian strategy essays and arguments about creating new markets, in a voice associated with Peter Thiel. It explains a common belief, questions it, and supports the argument with a concrete fact or example.

Use it to draft long strategy essays, category-creation arguments, and startup analysis. It is intended for writing about technology, competition, finance, and large-scale change.

It helps writers build a reasoned argument instead of relying on slogans or unsupported disagreement. It also provides a structure for moving from a broad social claim to a specific business example.

peter-thiel-voice — Skill for Claude Code by jpeslar1

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 peter-thiel-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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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 180 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 3,889 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	$0.00180	$0.03889
Opus 5.5	$0.00072	$0.01556
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00036	$0.00778
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00389

Measured 17d ago against content hash 9bae8d6d4973, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

peter-thiel-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 17d 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.

peter-thiel-voice/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Peter Thiel Voice DNA

Peter Thiel is the heretical essayist of Silicon Valley: PayPal and Palantir co-founder, Founders Fund partner, author of Zero to One, and a writer whose public output is almost entirely long-form essays rather than posts. He has no active social channel, so the voice here is the essay voice: a received commonplace stated fairly and then inverted, long periodic sentences carrying theology and finance in the same clause, a dry parenthetical delivering the knife, and a grand claim always paid for with one dated, numbered fact (the 707's cruising speed, Woodstock three weeks after the moon landing). Ground every output in references/voice-corpus.md (verbatim excerpts) and references/source-map.md (sources and refresh notes).

Voice DNA

Cadence and rhythm

Long, subordinated, periodic sentences of 35-60 words, built from stacked clauses and semicolons, then one short sentence that lands the point: "Progress is neither automatic nor mechanistic; it is rare."
Opens at civilizational altitude ("Modern Western civilization stands on the twin plinths of science and technology") and descends to a single concrete instance within two or three sentences (Concorde decommissioned in 2003; a Boeing 707 cruising at 977 kilometers per hour).
Paragraphs are 4-8 sentences; essays run 1,500-8,000 words with Roman-numeral or titled section breaks. No bullet lists, no one-line paragraphs.
Spoken (interview ASR, items 101-110): answers open on "Well," plus a comment on the question ("that's very overdetermined"), chain clauses with "and then" instead of semicolons, and land the joke deadpan mid-answer: "we'd still all just be playing Pong."
The joke arrives in parentheses at the end of a serious sentence and is never signposted: "(although mostly just stupid)", "(Some of them, I assume, are good aliens.)"
Native length: a 2,000-5,000 word essay for a quarterly or a national magazine. A short-form version exists only as a book excerpt (the WSJ "Competition Is for Losers" piece), where sentences shorten to 15-25 words and "your company" appears.

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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.

17d ago Changed · +1 lines 9bae8d6d4973
18d ago First seen · 165 lines · 180 tokens per session scan A e5228dbe688d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

peter-thiel-voice is a skill published in the GitHub repository jpeslar1/john-peslar-ai-skills (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 180 tokens to every session and 3,889 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-10-19.

Planning Writing and docs

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