essays-in-persuasion-keynes

essays-in-persuasion-keynes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from simbajigege/book2skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A framework based on John Maynard Keynes’s policy arguments for examining economic problems such as austerity, inflation, deflation, debt, currency pegs, and recessions. It routes each question to a relevant line of reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine whether austerity or stimulus may work, compare inflation with deflation, assess debt and reparations, or study fixed exchange-rate constraints. It can also help shape an economic argument intended to persuade.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to analyse how policies affect demand, employment, prices, debt burdens, and exchange rates. The description does not promise current economic data unless it is separately supplied or obtained.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to examine whether austerity or stimulus may work, compare inflation with deflation, assess debt and reparations, or study fixed exchange-rate constraints. It can also help shape an economic argument intended to persuade.

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Any agent
npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill essays-in-persuasion-keynes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skills

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 684 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 $0.00037 $0.00684
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00342
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00068

Measured 12d ago against content hash 053717aa85cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

essays-in-persuasion-keynes 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/essays-in-persuasion-keynes/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Essays in Persuasion: Keynes Policy Reasoning Orchestrator

Skill Purpose

Apply John Maynard Keynes's policy reasoning from Essays in Persuasion to contemporary macroeconomic questions. This is a modular skill because users may ask separate, independently triggered questions about debt capacity, inflation versus deflation, fixed exchange-rate traps, demand shortfalls, or economic persuasion.

Routing Rules

User intent Route to
Sovereign debt, reparations, sanctions, fiscal capacity, creditor demands subskills/transfer-problem.md
Inflation, deflation, unemployment tradeoffs, real debt burdens subskills/inflation-deflation.md
Gold standard, currency pegs, euro constraints, devaluation subskills/fixed-rate-trap.md
Recession, austerity, stimulus, liquidity trap, animal spirits subskills/aggregate-demand.md
Critique or write an economic argument meant to persuade subskills/economic-persuasion.md

Execution Rules

  1. Identify the user's concrete policy question and economic context.
  2. Route to the smallest relevant subskill; combine subskills only when the question spans mechanisms.
  3. Use current data when the user asks about a present economy or market.
  4. Distinguish short-run consequences from long-run equilibrium claims.
  5. State what evidence would change the verdict.

Multi-Module Output Format

  • Diagnosis line: identify the policy problem.
  • Routed module(s): name the Keynesian lens used.
  • Evidence: 2-3 data points or historical parallels.
  • Verdict: recommendation with caveats.
  • Revision condition: what would make the answer change.

Subskill Status

All subskills are required and present in subskills/.

CITATION RULES

Use quotes only when the user asks for source grounding or when a claim needs attribution. Reference quote anchors by topic file and anchor. Keep quoted excerpts short.

  • demand-confidence-quotes.md: #slump-trade-employment, #idle-workers-worldwide, #public-works-remedy, #doing-spending-enterprises, #restore-confidence-enterprise, #revive-enterprise-activity, #deflation-transfers-wealth, #active-to-inactive
  • policy-diagnosis-quotes.md: #germany-pays-in-goods, #transfer-destroys-balance, #inflation-and-deflation-injure, #inflation-unjust-deflation-inexpedient, #deflation-provokes-unemployment, #reject-prewar-gold-standard, #gold-standard-links-city-wall-street, #economists-as-dentists

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 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 · 55 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 053717aa85cc

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essays-in-persuasion-keynes is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (163 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 684 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.