Getting it into your agent
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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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00039 | $0.02259 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00019 | $0.01130 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00008 | $0.00452 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00226 |
Grade A, and why
outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
The Outsiders — CEO Capital Allocation Skill
Knowledge source: The Outsiders by William N. Thorndike, Jr.
Overview
Use this skill to evaluate CEOs, management teams, capital allocation decisions, buybacks, acquisitions, spin-offs, leverage, decentralization, and per-share value creation. It supports investors, board members, operators, and analysts judging whether management thinks like owners rather than empire builders.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when the user asks:
- "Is this CEO a good capital allocator?"
- "Should the company repurchase shares, acquire, pay dividends, or reinvest?"
- "How would The Outsiders judge this management team?"
- "Is this acquisition or spin-off rational?"
- "What metrics should I use to evaluate a CEO?"
Core Principle
The CEO's most important job is rational capital allocation. Great outsider CEOs maximize long-term per-share value by thinking like investors, focusing on cash flow, staying independent, decentralizing operations, and acting boldly only when the math is compelling.
Workflow Inventory
| Workflow | User question pattern | Inputs | Steps | Output | Independent trigger? | Distinct references? | Triage score | Should be subskill? | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CEO evaluation | "Is this CEO good?" | TSR, peer returns, capital decisions, incentives | Measure per-share value and allocation record | CEO scorecard | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | Central workflow. |
| Capital allocation decision | "Buyback or acquisition?" | Cash, debt, valuation, alternatives | Compare deployment options and funding sources | Allocation recommendation | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | Same toolkit and output. |
| Buyback review | "Is this repurchase smart?" | Intrinsic value, price, balance sheet, alternatives | Test denominator math and opportunity cost | Buyback verdict | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | Same capital allocation report. |
| Organization design | "Should they decentralize?" | Business units, controls, managers | Assess operational decentralization with capital discipline | Design guidance | Yes | Yes | 3 | No | One dimension within CEO scorecard. |
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.
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.
- 12d ago First seen · 231 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 41f40668b11d
outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike is a skill published in the GitHub repository simbajigege/book2skills (163 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,259 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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