wise-risk-vs-foolish-risk

wise-risk-vs-foolish-risk is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from R2h1/my-book-skills. It costs 112 tokens per session (1,981 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework for judging whether a risk has a limited possible loss and a much larger possible gain, or could cause serious damage for a small benefit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when considering choices such as leaving a job to start a business, borrowing money to invest, changing careers, or evaluating a business opportunity.
Why use it?
It replaces a vague fear or excitement about risk with a check of the worst outcome, best outcome, control, and ability to recover.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when considering choices such as leaving a job to start a business, borrowing money to invest, changing careers, or evaluating a business opportunity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/r2h1/my-book-skills/v16-vs
Install

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Any agent
npx skills add R2h1/my-book-skills --skill v16-vs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/R2h1/my-book-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 1,981 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

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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 $0.01981
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00991
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00396
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00198

Measured 11d ago against content hash c789c8fc5f45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wise-risk-vs-foolish-risk 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 11d 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.

百万富翁快车道/v16-明智风险vs无谓风险/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

明智风险 vs 无谓风险:辨别框架

R — 原文 (Reading)

谈到风险分析,对于最佳结果和最差结果对应着两类风险:明智的风险和无谓的风险。飞到拉斯维加斯,把一个月的薪水拿去赌博,这是无谓的风险;在高速公路上驾驶一辆刹车有问题的车,这是无谓的风险。只有承担明智的风险,避免无谓的风险,你的财富才会不断增长。明智的风险具有有限的下行空间,而其上行空间是无限的。无谓的风险具有无限的下行风险,而上行空间是有限的,至少在短期内是有限的。

— MJ·德马科, 第28章

如果你辞掉工作去投身快车道事业,这也是明智风险。你的好处是有可能成为百万富翁,坏处呢?你可能降低生活标准:自己拖地板,自己做汉堡包,吃米饭和青豆,骑自行车去买日常用品。真有那么糟糕吗?

— MJ·德马科, 第28章

I — 方法论骨架 (Interpretation)

风险不是"要不要冒"的问题,而是"冒哪种风险"的问题。德马科将风险分为两类,用上行空间和下行空间的对称性来区分:

明智风险:

  • 下行空间(最坏结果)是有限的、可承受的
  • 上行空间(最好结果)是无限的、不可限量的
  • 你对自己的风险有控制力或影响力
  • 最坏情况发生后你能恢复

无谓风险:

  • 下行空间是无限的或毁灭性的
  • 上行空间是有限的、短暂的
  • 你对风险结果几乎没有控制力
  • 最坏情况发生后你无法恢复

判断框架包含三个维度:

  1. 量化最坏结果:最坏情况下你会损失什么?这个损失是暂时的还是永久性的?
  2. 量化最好结果:最好情况下你能获得什么?这个收益是一次性的还是可持续的?
  3. 控制力评估:你对结果有影响吗?还是完全取决于外部因素?

A1 — 书中的应用 (Past Application)

案例:明智风险——德马科向互联网公司投资10万美元

德马科卖掉自己的互联网公司后,将部分资金投入了他被收购的那家公司。他评估认为该公司成功概率相当高——目标是将其发展成1亿美元的大公司。如果他成功,10万美元变成200万美元;如果失败,损失大约一半。坏处有限(5万美元),好处巨大(200万美元)。且他对该公司有深入了解,对结果有影响力。这是典型的明智风险。

案例:无谓风险——开850马力跑车飙车

德马科自曝年轻时开850马力的跑车在凤凰城街头飙车。好处是一时的兴奋和短暂的自我膨胀,坏处是可能造成自己或他人死亡。好处短暂有限,坏处无尽漫长。这是典型的无谓风险。

案例:明智风险——辞职创业

辞职创业的明智之处在于:最坏情况是回去找一份工作,生活方式降级(自己做饭、骑自行车、住小公寓),但这些都不是毁灭性的;最好情况是财务自由。且创业者对自己的业务有控制力。

A2 — 触发场景 (Future Trigger) ★

典型触发场景:

  • 你在考虑辞职创业/借贷投资/跳槽,内心被"风险"两个字压得喘不过气
  • 有人对你说"你疯了,这风险太大了"
  • 你在"做"和"不做"之间反复纠结,但从未系统分析过两种结果
  • 你正在考虑一个"看起来回报很高"的机会,但你描述不清最坏情况

语言信号:

  • "风险太大了,我不敢"(笼统恐惧,未量化)
  • "这个机会错过了就没有了"(情绪驱动,未分析上行空间)
  • "大不了……"(如果"大不了"后面跟的是毁灭性后果,这就是危险信号)

与相邻技能区分:

  • 与 v14(红线原则)的区别:v14帮你从"不敢行动"到"承诺行动";v16帮你判断"应该对什么行动说不"。两者是互补的——红线推你跨门槛,风险辨别告诉你该跨哪个门槛。
  • 与 v15(执行vs点子)的区别:v15讨论"是否要等完美点子";v16讨论"具体这个行动的风险结构"。前者是战略心态,后者是战术决策。

E — 可执行步骤 (Execution)

当技能被激活后,按以下步骤执行:

  1. 写下最坏情况:如果这件事完全失败,你的具体损失是什么?列出量化清单(金钱、时间、人际关系、健康)。不要笼统地说"会损失很多"——要具体到数字和日期。

  2. 评估恢复能力:最坏情况发生后,你需要多久能恢复到当前状态?如果恢复期超过你能承受的极限(如5年),这就是无谓风险。如果恢复期在6-12个月内,通常属于可承受的明智风险。

  3. 写下最好情况:如果一切顺利,你能获得什么?这个收益是"一次性的"还是"可持续的"?收益是否足以改变你的人生轨迹?

  4. 评估控制力:你对结果有多大影响力?如果成败完全取决于外部因素(市场波动、他人决策、运气),这是无谓风险。如果你能通过自身努力显著影响结果,这是明智风险。

  5. 做出决定

    • 下行有限 + 上行无限 + 有控制力 = 明智风险,值得承担
    • 下行无限 + 上行有限 + 无控制力 = 无谓风险,坚决避免
    • 如果处于中间地带,进一步缩小风险规模后再决定

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

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  1. 11d ago First seen · 112 lines · 112 tokens per session scan A c789c8fc5f45

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wise-risk-vs-foolish-risk is a skill published in the GitHub repository R2h1/my-book-skills (2 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 112 tokens to every session and 1,981 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.