clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle

clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from simbajigege/book2skills. It costs 36 tokens per session (2,073 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An investing framework based on John Bogle's distinction between owning productive businesses for the long term and betting on short-term price changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess financial products, trading practices and policy proposals. It helps investors, analysts and educators discuss fees, intermediaries and long-term ownership.
Why use it?
It helps separate investing from speculation and identify costs, excessive trading, leverage and conflicts of interest that can reduce returns. It also examines whether financial activity creates value or mainly extracts fees.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess financial products, trading practices and policy proposals. It helps investors, analysts and educators discuss fees, intermediaries and long-term ownership.

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Install with agentmods
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Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,073 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00036 $0.02073
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01037
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00415
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00207

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9c3a101674f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle 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.

skills/clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Clash of the Cultures — Stewardship Investing Skill

Knowledge source: The Clash of the Cultures by John C. Bogle.

Overview

Use this skill to distinguish long-term investing from short-term speculation and to critique financial products, market behavior, or policy proposals through Bogle's stewardship lens. It supports investors, educators, analysts, and policy-minded users evaluating whether activity creates real value or extracts value through turnover, fees, leverage, and agency conflicts.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user asks:

  • "Is this investing or speculation?"
  • "How would Bogle view high-frequency trading, hedge funds, or derivatives?"
  • "Are financial intermediaries adding value here?"
  • "Why do costs matter so much?"
  • "What reforms would reduce speculation?"

Core Principle

Long-term investing is ownership in productive businesses; speculation is betting on price expectations. When the financial system shifts from stewardship to trading, costs, agency conflicts, and casino-like incentives subtract value from investors and society.

Workflow Inventory

Workflow User question pattern Inputs Steps Output Independent trigger? Distinct references? Triage score Should be subskill? Reason
Investing vs speculation classification "Is this activity investing?" Holding period, thesis, turnover, cost, leverage Test real-market ownership vs expectations-market betting Classification and corrective rule Yes Yes 3 No Central workflow.
Cost drag analysis "Do fees matter?" Fee rate, turnover, time horizon, tax/cost data Apply compounding cost drain and zero-sum alpha logic Cost impact warning Yes Yes 3 No Same investing/speculation verdict.
Wall Street incentive critique "Does this product add value?" Product, intermediary incentives, costs, complexity Identify agency conflicts and value extraction Incentive diagnosis Yes Yes 3 No Uses same stewardship lens.
Reform assessment "Would this policy help?" Policy proposal, target behavior Test whether it reduces speculation/costs/conflicts Reform pros/cons Yes Yes 3 No Same social-value frame.

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 205 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 9c3a101674f8

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clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (163 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 2,073 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.