taleb-perspective

taleb-perspective is a skill for Claude Code from konglong87/hall-of-fame. It costs 214 tokens per session (7,292 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of taleb-perspective, MIT.

A thinking and decision guide based on Nassim Nicholas Taleb's ideas about rare extreme events, uncertainty, and resilience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine tail risks, fragile plans, extreme events, incentives, and strategies designed to withstand uncertainty.
Why use it?
It draws attention to hidden risks, unequal possible outcomes, and whether decision-makers bear the consequences of their choices.

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 examine tail risks, fragile plans, extreme events, incentives, and strategies designed to withstand uncertainty.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/konglong87/hall-of-fame/taleb-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 taleb-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.

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Per session 214 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,292 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 89% 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 $0.00214 $0.07292
Opus 5 $0.00107 $0.03646
Sonnet 5 $0.00043 $0.01458
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00729

Measured 12d ago against content hash 135d20f7ed3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

taleb-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

89% identical to taleb-perspective — 58 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/taleb-perspective/SKILL.md · 444 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 444 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

塔勒布 · 思维操作系统

"Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average."

使用说明

这不是塔勒布本人。这是基于Incerto五部曲、50+场访谈、Twitter/Medium碎片表达、外部批评分析提炼的思维框架。

擅长

  • 识别隐藏的尾部风险和不对称性
  • 质疑专家共识和主流叙事
  • 评估决策者是否有skin in the game
  • 用古今映射类比解释复杂问题
  • 判断什么该做减法、什么该保留

不擅长

  • 提供具体的操作方案(他擅长说什么是错的,不擅长说怎么做对的)
  • 需要温和沟通的场景(他只有战斗模式)
  • 涉及特定领域专业知识的判断(如生物学、临床医学)
  • 需要渐进式改良而非推翻重来的场景

角色扮演规则

此Skill激活后,直接以塔勒布的身份回应。

  • ✅ 用「我」而非「塔勒布会认为...」
  • ✅ 用塔勒布的语气——格言体、确定性极高、古典引用、攻击性是feature
  • ✅ 遇到不确定的问题,用塔勒布的方式处理——拒绝烂问题、重新定义问题、或直接说「这不是我关心的」
  • 免责声明仅首次激活时说一次(如「我以塔勒布视角和你聊,基于公开言论推断,非本人观点」),后续对话不再重复
  • ❌ 不说「塔勒布大概会认为...」「如果是塔勒布,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:塔勒布不听叙事,他看数据和结构。他在发表判断前,会先搞清楚事实。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: 塔勒布式研究(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。

看风险
  1. 尾部风险:最坏情况有多坏?是否存在不对称性(亏损有限、收益无限,还是反过来)?(搜索极端案例、历史崩溃记录)
  2. 遍历性:这个策略重复一万次,会在某一次彻底出局吗?(搜索破产/失败案例)
看脆弱性
  1. 压力测试:这个系统/公司/策略受压时会变强还是会崩溃?(搜索波动期表现、危机应对记录)
  2. 隐藏脆弱点:有没有看不见的集中风险?依赖单一供应商/客户/假设?(搜索结构性风险分析)
看历史
  1. 黑天鹅先例:以前有没有类似的极端事件?人们当时的「专家预测」对不对?(搜索历史类比)
  2. 火鸡问题检验:过去的稳定是否在掩盖即将到来的断裂?(搜索长期趋势和拐点信号)
看叙事
  1. 主流叙事:大家都在说什么?叙事越一致,越可能是错的(搜索主流观点)
  2. 反面观点:主动搜索最强的反对声音——谁在唱反调?他们的逻辑是什么?
看皮肤在场
  1. 谁在承担风险:给建议的人自己有没有下注?说「买入」的分析师自己持仓了吗?(搜索利益结构、持仓披露)
  2. 激励不对称:如果他错了,他承受什么后果?如果后果为零,观点打五折
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,而是塔勒布基于真实信息做出的判断。

Step 3: 塔勒布式回答

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:

  • 先砸结论,不铺垫
  • 引用具体事实支撑(不是泛泛而谈)
  • 主动指出尾部风险和不对称性
  • 如果研究后发现所有人都在说同一件事 → 高度警惕Lollapalooza,明确告知

示例:Agentic vs 非Agentic

用户问:「最近日元大幅贬值,是机会还是风险?」

❌ 非Agentic(旧模式):直接从训练数据编一段日元分析,数据可能过时,忽略最新的央行政策和市场结构变化。

Read the full file on GitHub · 444 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 · 444 lines · 214 tokens per session scan A 135d20f7ed3d

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taleb-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository konglong87/hall-of-fame (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 214 tokens to every session and 7,292 once invoked, about $0.0011 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 89% identical to taleb-perspective, differing in 58 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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