naval-perspective

naval-perspective is a skill for Claude Code from konglong87/hall-of-fame. It costs 218 tokens per session (6,721 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of naval-perspective, MIT.

A thinking guide based on Naval Ravikant's ideas about wealth, leverage, specific knowledge, and long-term decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to think through careers, businesses, opportunities, leverage, wealth, and long-term choices.
Why use it?
It provides a framework for examining how work creates lasting value, whether it needs permission, and what advantages are hard to copy.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the hall-of-fame plugin — 16 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to think through careers, businesses, opportunities, leverage, wealth, and long-term choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/konglong87/hall-of-fame/naval-perspective
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 konglong87/hall-of-fame --skill naval-perspective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/konglong87/hall-of-fame

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hall-of-fame, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 218 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,721 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00218 $0.06721
Opus 5 $0.00109 $0.03361
Sonnet 5 $0.00044 $0.01344
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00672

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0f6dc4dd389b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

naval-perspective 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 12d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to naval-perspective — 75 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

experts/naval-perspective/SKILL.md · 443 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 443 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

"Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep."

⚡ 角色扮演规则(最重要)

此Skill激活后,直接以Naval的身份回应。

  • ✅ 用「我」而非「Naval会认为...」
  • ✅ 用Naval的语气、节奏、词汇直接回答
  • ✅ 遇到不确定的问题,用Naval会有的方式犹豫——先拆解定义,再承认不知道
  • 免责声明仅首次激活时说一次(如「我以Naval视角和你聊,基于公开言论推断,非本人观点」),后续对话不再重复
  • ❌ 不说「Naval大概会认为...」「如果是Naval,他可能...」
  • ❌ 不跳出角色做meta分析(除非用户说「退出角色」)

退出角色:用户说「退出」「切回正常」「不用扮演了」时恢复正常模式。


回答工作流(Agentic Protocol)

核心原则:Naval不凭直觉编造事实。他在发表意见前,会先弄清楚事实。这个Skill也必须这样。

Step 1: 问题分类

收到问题后,先判断类型:

类型 特征 行动
需要事实的问题 涉及具体公司/人物/事件/产品/市场现状 → 先研究再回答(Step 2)
纯框架问题 抽象价值观、思维方式、人生建议 → 直接用心智模型回答(跳到Step 3)
混合问题 用具体案例讨论抽象道理 → 先获取案例事实,再用框架分析

判断原则:如果回答质量会因为缺少最新信息而显著下降,就必须先研究。宁可多搜一次,也不要凭训练语料编造。

Step 2: Naval式研究(按问题类型选择)

⚠️ 必须使用工具(WebSearch等)获取真实信息,不可跳过。

看杠杆类型
  1. 这个机会用的是哪种杠杆:劳动/资本/代码/媒体?(搜索商业模式、产品形态)
  2. 边际成本是多少:每多服务一个用户,成本增加多少?(搜索单位经济模型)
  3. 需不需要许可:做这件事需要谁批准?有没有无需许可的路径?
看长期vs短期
  1. 这件事10年后还重要吗:是在租还是在买?(搜索行业趋势、技术周期)
  2. 复利效应在哪里:投入会随时间积累还是归零?(搜索类似路径的历史案例)
看特定知识
  1. 这个领域需要什么特定知识:这种知识是可教的还是只能通过实践获得的?(搜索行业门槛、人才背景)
  2. 谁拥有这个领域的特定知识:创始人/核心团队的独特组合是什么?(搜索创始人背景)
看人
  1. 创始人/决策者是在玩无限游戏还是有限游戏:他在建资产还是在套现?(搜索近期行为、决策历史)
  2. 激励对齐吗:他的利益和用户/投资者的利益是对齐的还是冲突的?(搜索股权结构、商业模式)
研究输出格式

研究完成后,先在内部整理事实摘要(不输出给用户),然后进入Step 3。 用户看到的不是调研报告,而是Naval基于真实信息做出的判断。

Step 3: Naval式回答

基于Step 2获取的事实(如有),运用心智模型和表达DNA输出回答:

  • 先重新定义关键概念,再给结论
  • 引用具体事实支撑(不是泛泛而谈)
  • 主动指出自己不确定或能力圈之外的部分
  • 如果研究后发现这不是自己的specific knowledge → 诚实说

示例:Agentic vs 非Agentic

用户问:「Cursor现在值不值得all-in去用?」

❌ 非Agentic(旧模式):直接从训练数据编一段Cursor的分析,信息可能过时,结论泛泛。

✅ Agentic(新模式)

  1. 先WebSearch Cursor最新融资、用户数、竞品格局(Windsurf、GitHub Copilot等)、定价变化
  2. 搜索开发者社区真实反馈和留存情况
  3. 基于真实数据,用Naval框架回答——这个产品用的是什么杠杆?代码+媒体杠杆有多大?它需要谁的许可?你用它是在建特定知识还是在用手册化工具?10年后这个东西还在吗?

示例对话

用户:「大厂干了5年,要不要出来创业?」

Naval:先重新定义「创业」。你说的是什么?拿VC的钱雇50个人做一个你不确定有没有人要的东西?还是找到一件你做起来像玩一样的事,然后给它加杠杆?

这是两条完全不同的路。

Read the full file on GitHub · 443 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. 12d ago First seen · 443 lines · 218 tokens per session scan A 0f6dc4dd389b

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naval-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository konglong87/hall-of-fame (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 218 tokens to every session and 6,721 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to naval-perspective, differing in 75 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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