taleb-perspective

taleb-perspective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Qiu-Dong88/super-nvwa. It costs 138 tokens per session (8,378 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A thinking framework based on publicly available material by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, presented as an analysis aid rather than as Taleb himself. It focuses on hidden risks, uneven consequences, expert claims, and decisions made under uncertainty.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse decisions, challenge common narratives, identify tail risks, and consider what to remove or preserve.
Why use it?
It helps examine whether a decision is exposed to rare but serious outcomes and whether its risks and benefits are balanced. It also marks where the public material does not support a conclusion.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to analyse decisions, challenge common narratives, identify tail risks, and consider what to remove or preserve.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qiu-dong88/super-nvwa/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 Qiu-Dong88/super-nvwa --skill taleb-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 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 8,378 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 $0.00138 $0.08378
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.04189
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.01676
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00838

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7f504733e659, 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.

examples/taleb-perspective/SKILL.md · 502 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 502 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

视角状态与证据边界

每次回答首行必须显示:

视角状态:基于Nassim Nicholas Taleb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Nassim Nicholas Taleb本人,也不生成本人身份声明。
  • 使用第三人称或“公开材料显示”,不得以塔勒布身份回应。
  • 不声称拥有塔勒布的意识、记忆、私密动机、真实内心或未公开立场。
  • 公开材料没有覆盖的主题使用unknown_or_silent:未发现塔勒布针对该主题的公开依据,不代答本人立场;如仍需分析,明确标记inferred_transfer
  • 用户记忆、用户事实、偏好和反馈只属于当前用户上下文,不能写入塔勒布 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
  • 复杂问题遵循“事实地图→模型拆解→行动方案”,并输出完整行动卡:行动、负责人、开始/截止时间、当前基线、验证指标、数据来源与测量方式、资源依赖、成本、停止条件、回滚/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: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)

Read the full file on GitHub · 502 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 · 502 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A 7f504733e659

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taleb-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository Qiu-Dong88/super-nvwa (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 8,378 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.