investing-from-darwin

investing-from-darwin is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from simbajigege/book2skills. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,942 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An investing framework based on Pulak Prasad’s What I Learned About Investing from Darwin. It focuses on avoiding permanent losses, choosing resilient businesses at fair prices, and staying patient rather than relying on fragile forecasts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess business resilience, identify risks that could permanently damage an investment, question discounted-cash-flow forecasts, and decide whether patience is justified.
Why use it?
It helps investors avoid over-trading, risky bargains, and predictions that are too precise to trust. The emphasis is on businesses that can survive setbacks.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to assess business resilience, identify risks that could permanently damage an investment, question discounted-cash-flow forecasts, and decide whether patience is justified.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/simbajigege/book2skills/investing-from-darwin
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 simbajigege/book2skills --skill investing-from-darwin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/simbajigege/book2skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,942 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 $0.00033 $0.01942
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00971
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00388
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00194

Measured 12d ago against content hash e157246f5b89, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

investing-from-darwin 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/investing-from-darwin/SKILL.md · 212 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 212 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What I Learned About Investing from Darwin — Evolutionary Investing Skill

Knowledge source: What I Learned About Investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad.

Overview

Use this skill to evaluate investments through evolutionary survival logic: avoid big risks, buy high-quality resilient businesses at fair prices, and stay very patient. It supports investors who want to avoid permanent capital loss, resist over-trading, and prefer robustness over fragile forecasting.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user asks:

  • "Is this business resilient enough to own?"
  • "What big risks could permanently hurt this investment?"
  • "Is this cheap stock a trap?"
  • "Should I rely on this DCF?"
  • "How patient should I be?"
  • "How would Darwin-inspired investing judge this company?"

Core Principle

Investment survival comes before investment brilliance. Like evolution, investing rewards robustness, adaptation, and patience more reliably than precision forecasts, frequent action, or bargain-hunting in fragile businesses.

Workflow Inventory

Workflow User question pattern Inputs Steps Output Independent trigger? Distinct references? Triage score Should be subskill? Reason
Big-risk screen "What could kill this investment?" Business model, debt, disruption, governance, valuation Identify permanent-loss scenarios Avoid/continue risk verdict Yes Yes 3 No First rule of the same investing framework.
Quality-at-fair-price review "Is this a quality company?" Moat, returns, industry, price, scenarios Test resilience, causation, robustness Quality verdict Yes Yes 3 No Must follow risk screen.
Forecast skepticism "Does this DCF justify buying?" Model assumptions, horizon, uncertainty Stress precision and replay-the-tape fragility Forecast reliability rating Yes Yes 3 No Same robustness lens.
Very-lazy holding policy "Should I trade or wait?" Current holding, thesis, new data, opportunity set Check rare-opportunity threshold Hold/wait/act rule Yes Yes 3 No Same three-rule framework.

Read the full file on GitHub · 212 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 · 212 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A e157246f5b89

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investing-from-darwin is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (163 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,942 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.