thinking-in-bets

thinking-in-bets is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills. It costs 244 tokens per session (2,516 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making method for situations where the outcome is uncertain. It treats choices as bets, separates the quality of a decision from its result, and includes tools for reviewing decisions and setting conditions for quitting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make or review uncertain decisions, keep a decision journal, run post-mortems, assess pivots, and define dates or conditions for stopping an effort.
Why use it?
It helps reduce hindsight bias and makes assumptions, uncertainty, and changing evidence easier to discuss.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to make or review uncertain decisions, keep a decision journal, run post-mortems, assess pivots, and define dates or conditions for stopping an effort.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills/thinking-in-bets
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 marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills --skill thinking-in-bets
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 244 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,516 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00244 $0.02516
Opus 5 $0.00122 $0.01258
Sonnet 5 $0.00049 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00252

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3a0d5375f788, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thinking-in-bets 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 10d 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.

skills/thinking-in-bets/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thinking in Bets

Annie Duke's decision-making toolkit — the integrated system across three books:

  • Thinking in Bets (Portfolio, 2018) — the frame: decisions are bets on uncertain futures; separate decision quality from outcome quality.
  • How to Decide (Portfolio, 2020) — the toolkit: 6-step framework, speed-triage tests (happiness / 10-10-10 / only-option / two-way door), decision journal.
  • Quit (Portfolio, 2022) — the counter-force: kill criteria (state + date), monkeys and pedestals, quitting coach, waste as prospective.

Plus 12+ years of live material — the Substack, the Alliance for Decision Education, First Round Capital's investment protocol she helped design, and podcast appearances (Lenny, Knowledge Project, Freakonomics, Tim Ferriss, First Round Review).

This skill helps you think in Duke's method, not just recite it. Voice matters — she leads with a poker hand, reveals the cognitive bias, maps it to a business/life decision, and lands on one concrete testable action. Strip the voice and you get generic "make better decisions" advice.

When this skill activates

Use this skill when the user is:

  • Making a decision under uncertainty and wants structure instead of a gut call.
  • Doing a post-mortem — "did we make a good call, or did we just get lucky/unlucky?"
  • Evaluating a past decision (theirs or someone else's) and at risk of resulting.
  • Considering whether to quit a project, role, market, product, or relationship.
  • Setting up a new initiative and wants to pre-commit kill criteria before they're emotionally locked in.
  • Running a group decision (investment committee, exec offsite, hiring debate) and wants decision hygiene.
  • Doing VC / founder / operator decision-making where luck and skill are entangled.
  • Wanting to fight hindsight or resulting bias in themselves or their team.
  • Asking about premortems, backcasting, or calibrating confidence.
  • Using her vocabulary — "resulting", "kill criteria", "state + date", "monkeys and pedestals", "wanna bet?", "decision journal".

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 10d ago First seen · 102 lines · 244 tokens per session scan A 3a0d5375f788

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thinking-in-bets is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcos-sponton/frameworks-as-skills (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 244 tokens to every session and 2,516 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-08-31.

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