common-sense-index-investing-bogle

common-sense-index-investing-bogle is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from simbajigege/book2skills. It costs 38 tokens per session (2,069 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An educational guide to John Bogle's approach to investing through low-cost index funds. Index funds track a broad market, while asset allocation means choosing how much money goes into investments such as stocks and bonds.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for thinking through fund and ETF choices, stock-and-bond mixes, adviser costs, smart-beta strategies, and long-term buy-and-hold investing.
Why use it?
It helps compare funds and investment choices without overlooking fees, taxes, trading, or the difficulty of consistently picking winners. It also helps avoid making a portfolio more complicated than necessary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It is for thinking through fund and ETF choices, stock-and-bond mixes, adviser costs, smart-beta strategies, and long-term buy-and-hold investing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/simbajigege/book2skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill common-sense-index-investing-bogle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,069 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 $0.00038 $0.02069
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01035
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00207

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6058c37e29bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

common-sense-index-investing-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/common-sense-index-investing-bogle/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing — Index Investing Skill

Knowledge source: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle.

Overview

Use this skill to evaluate investment fund choices, portfolio simplicity, cost drag, index fund discipline, asset allocation, and buy-hold behavior using Bogle's common-sense investing framework. It is educational decision support, not personalized financial advice.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user asks:

  • "Should I use an index fund or active fund?"
  • "Are these fund fees too high?"
  • "How should I think about ETFs, smart beta, or advisers?"
  • "What stock/bond allocation is sensible?"
  • "Am I overcomplicating my portfolio?"

Core Principle

Own the broad market at very low cost and hold it for the long term. Before costs, investors collectively earn the market return; after costs, the more they pay intermediaries, trade, and chase winners, the less they keep.

Workflow Inventory

Workflow User question pattern Inputs Steps Output Independent trigger? Distinct references? Triage score Should be subskill? Reason
Fund comparison "Which fund should I choose?" Fees, turnover, strategy, benchmark, tax status Compare cost, diversification, active risk, simplicity Fund verdict Yes Yes 3 No Primary index-investing workflow.
Cost drag analysis "Do fees matter?" Expense ratio, turnover, horizon Estimate compounding drag Cost warning Yes Yes 3 No Same decision report.
Asset allocation "How much stocks/bonds?" Age, horizon, risk capacity, income need Apply simple stock/bond discipline Allocation range Yes Yes 3 No Fits the same portfolio policy.
Product skepticism "Should I buy ETF/smart beta/adviser pick?" Product structure, costs, incentives Check complexity, trading temptation, conflicts Use/avoid verdict Yes Yes 3 No Same Bogle cost/simplicity lens.

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · 206 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 6058c37e29bb

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common-sense-index-investing-bogle is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (163 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 2,069 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.

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