identity-work

identity-work is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kangarooking/cangjie-skill. It costs 126 tokens per session (1,533 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided reflection skill for recognising when personal labels or fixed positions are distorting judgement, then using a new self-image to support behaviour change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are defending a position, avoiding an uncomfortable reality, struggling to change a habit, or questioning whether you are deceiving yourself.
Why use it?
It helps separate facts from self-justification and makes repeated intentions more concrete through explicit commitments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when you are defending a position, avoiding an uncomfortable reality, struggling to change a habit, or questioning whether you are deceiving yourself.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kangarooking/cangjie-skill/identity-work
About the project

Cangjie Skill is a system that turns methods from books, long videos, podcasts, and other source material into executable skills for AI agents. It helps users package knowledge into callable workflows, using the repository's code, methods, and templates; catalogue add-ons relate to these agent skills.

kangarooking/cangjie-skill · 9,662 stars · on GitHub

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 kangarooking/cangjie-skill --skill identity-work
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kangarooking/cangjie-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,533 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 $0.00126 $0.01533
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00766
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00307
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00153

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8e82b7391b90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

identity-work 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.

books/naval-almanack-skill/identity-work/SKILL.md · 122 lines

What it actually says

身份工作:看清现实与重塑自我

R — 原文 (Reading)

痛苦时刻的一个定义是“你看清事物本来面貌的时刻。”……好消息是痛苦时刻……是真相时刻。……我尽量不要有太多预先决定。我认为创造身份和标签会锁死你的认知,让你无法看清真相。……为了在没有自律的情况下自我提升,请更新你的自我形象。

— 纳瓦尔·拉维坎特, 《纳瓦尔宝典》

I — 方法论骨架 (Interpretation)

「身份」是一把双刃剑,两个方向都要用: 认知侧——清空身份看清现实:身份和标签会锁死认知,让人为立场辩护而非看事实; 痛苦时刻是「愿望与现实冲突无法再回避」的真相时刻,是看清现实的最佳入口; 操作:公开认错(防自欺)、对成捆一致的信念高度怀疑、从基本原则重估一切。 行为侧——用自我形象替代自律:靠意志力对抗旧习惯不可持续,真正的杠杆是重塑「我是谁」—— 先对外宣布新身份(「我戒烟了」),利用承诺一致性让新自我形象约束行为; 「自律是通向新自我形象的桥梁」,最终「你就是它」。

A1 — 书中的应用 (Past Application)

案例 1: 公开承认失败

  • 问题: 生意没做好时容易自欺
  • 方法论的使用: 在联合创始人和同事面前公开承认
  • 结论: 「如果我没有对别人隐瞒,我就不会欺骗自己」
  • 结果: 用外部承诺锁死自欺通道

案例 2: 向所有人宣布戒烟

  • 问题: 靠意志力戒烟失败
  • 方法论的使用: 「对每一个你认识的人说:我戒烟了。我戒了。我向你保证。」
  • 结论: 对外承诺=用身份约束行为
  • 结果: 「那就是你需要去做的全部」

A2 — 触发场景 (Future Trigger) ★

用户会在什么情境下需要这个 skill?

  1. 立场先行:「我发现我总在为某个标签辩护」
  2. 无法面对现实:「明明有问题却一直拖」
  3. 改变失败:「我下定决心了还是做不到」
  4. 自我欺骗:「我总是给自己找借口」

语言信号

  • "我为我的立场辩护/看不清现实"
  • "我改变不了自己/自律失败"
  • "我是不是在自欺欺人"
  • "identity / why can't I change / self-deception"

与相邻 skill 的区分

  • acceptance 的区别: 身份工作拆掉「不肯面对现实的自我」;接受是拆掉之后的落地动作
  • self-liberation 的区别: 本 skill 改身份;解放 skill 卸外部期望

E — 可执行步骤 (Execution)

  1. 做信念审计

    • 完成标准: 列出 3 条「成捆一致」的信念,标注哪些未经独立检验、哪些是为标签辩护
  2. 找真相入口

    • 完成标准: 问「我在回避什么现实?最痛苦的地方在提醒我什么?」,并把其中一条向可信的人公开承认
    • 判停条件: 若涉及深层创伤,停止自助流程并建议专业咨询
  3. 声明新身份

    • 完成标准: 把想改变的习惯写成身份宣言(「我是……的人」),向至少 3 人宣布
  4. 用行为回填身份

    • 完成标准: 接下来 30 天每天做一个与新身份一致的小动作,把「我尝试」改成「我就是」

B — 边界 (Boundary) ★

不要在以下情况使用此 skill

  • 深层创伤/人格层面的问题(需专业咨询,不能靠身份宣言)
  • 用户需要先解决外部实际问题时(先行动,再调身份)

作者在书中警告的失败模式

  • 身份锁死认知: 「创造身份和标签会锁死你的认知,让你无法看清真相」
  • 用「我要」拖延: 「当你说'我要做这个'和'我要做那个'的时候,你其实是在拖延」

作者的盲点 / 时代局限

  • 「放下身份」对少数群体/弱势身份可能意味着放弃重要的群体支持
  • 身份重塑并非对所有人都同样可行(社会结构约束)

容易混淆的邻近方法论

  • acceptance: 接受需要先放下自我,身份工作是那个「放下」的动作

相关 skills (阶段 3 定稿)

  • composes-with: acceptanceself-liberationjudgment-training

审计信息

  • 验证通过: V1 ✓ / V2 ✓ / V3 ✓ (v16)
  • 测试通过率: 见 test-results.md
  • 蒸馏时间: 2026-08-01
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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 122 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A 8e82b7391b90

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identity-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository kangarooking/cangjie-skill (9,662 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,533 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 2026-08-30.