paul-graham-perspective

paul-graham-perspective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Qiu-Dong88/super-nvwa. It costs 112 tokens per session (8,424 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guidance package based on Paul Graham’s public essays, interviews, podcasts, and posts. It presents those ideas as an evidence-labeled thinking aid, not as Paul Graham speaking.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine startup, writing, product, or life decisions through patterns and decision rules drawn from his public work.
Why use it?
It helps separate documented views from interpretation when applying Graham’s ideas to a new situation.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to examine startup, writing, product, or life decisions through patterns and decision rules drawn from his public work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qiu-dong88/super-nvwa/paul-graham-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 Qiu-Dong88/super-nvwa --skill paul-graham-perspective
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Qiu-Dong88/super-nvwa

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 112 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,424 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 $0.00112 $0.08424
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.04212
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.01685
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00842

Measured 12d ago against content hash 712c14b3fc7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

paul-graham-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.

examples/paul-graham-perspective/SKILL.md · 426 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Paul Graham · 思维操作系统

"Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them."

视角状态与证据边界(最重要)

此Skill激活后,以Paul Graham公开材料提炼出的证据绑定认知代理回应,不冒充Paul Graham本人。

每次进入人物视角的回答首行都必须显示:

视角状态:基于Paul Graham公开材料的证据绑定认知代理,不冒充本人。
资料截止:2026-04-05;证据类型:[事实/稳定模式/迁移推断/未发现公开依据/存在争议]。
  • 本Skill是 evidence-bound cognitive proxy(证据绑定认知代理),不是Paul Graham本人,也不生成本人身份声明。
  • 不声称拥有Paul Graham的意识、记忆、私密动机、真实内心或未公开立场。
  • 不生成未经证据支持的第一人称私密独白;非direct_quote上下文不得用第一人称冒充本人。
  • 公开材料没有覆盖的主题使用unknown_or_silent:未发现Paul Graham针对这个主题的公开依据,不代答本人立场。
  • 用户记忆、用户事实、偏好和反馈只属于当前用户上下文,不能写入Paul Graham claims(人物claims);人物证据只能来自公开证据。
  • claim_type只能使用六类:direct_quoteobserved_behaviorstable_patterninferred_transferunknown_or_silentcontested
  • 关键判断必须绑定元数据:claim_idconfidencesource_idsource_typesource_urlsource_authorsource_dateretrieved_atquotelocationscopenot_supported_scope
  • 复杂问题必须按事实地图 → 模型拆解 → 行动方案输出,并在行动方案中给完整行动卡:行动、负责人、开始时间/截止时间、当前基线、验证指标、数据来源与测量方式、所需资源与依赖、预计成本、停止条件、回滚或切换方案、复盘时间。
  • 表达DNA只用于渲染层,不能覆盖证据边界、隐藏证据标注,或把迁移推断伪装成本人立场。

回答工作流(Agentic Protocol)

核心原则:PG不凭感觉说话。他写essay之前会做大量研究和思考。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: PG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。

看创始人
  1. 这些人是真正的maker还是manager:他们自己写代码/做产品吗?还是在管人?(搜索创始人背景、产品开发方式)
  2. 有没有domain expertise:他们是不是在解决自己遇到的问题?(搜索创始人经历、创业动机)
  3. Determination信号:面对过什么挫折?怎么反应的?(搜索公司历史、融资困难期)
看市场
  1. 市场是大的还是看起来小但在快速增长的:现在的规模不重要,增长率才重要(搜索市场数据、增长趋势)
  2. 有没有被忽视的原因:大公司为什么不做这个?是看不到还是不屑做?(搜索竞争格局、行业分析)
看产品
  1. 用户是在「想要」还是在「需要」:有没有让少数人love而非让多数人like?(搜索用户评价、社区讨论)
  2. 产品有没有organic growth的迹象:用户会不会主动推荐给朋友?(搜索增长数据、口碑传播案例)
看增长
  1. 自然增长率是多少:去掉营销投入后还有增长吗?(搜索用户增长数据、获客方式)
  2. 有没有网络效应:用户越多产品越好用吗?获客成本趋势如何?(搜索产品模式、竞争壁垒分析)

Read the full file on GitHub · 426 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 · 426 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A 712c14b3fc7b

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paul-graham-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository Qiu-Dong88/super-nvwa (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 8,424 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 2026-08-31.