thiel-style-converter

thiel-style-converter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vahidkaargar/it-department-skills. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,985 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide that reshapes supplied ideas into a contrarian business argument with a measured, analytical tone inspired by Zero to One. It changes the presentation without changing the facts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rewrite startup analysis, market commentary, founder ideas, positioning work, essays, or strategy notes into a structured argument.
Why use it?
It helps turn loose notes or familiar opinions into a clearer argument with distinct categories, assumptions, and consequences, without inventing evidence.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to rewrite startup analysis, market commentary, founder ideas, positioning work, essays, or strategy notes into a structured argument.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vahidkaargar/it-department-skills/thiel-style-converter
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 vahidkaargar/it-department-skills --skill thiel-style-converter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vahidkaargar/it-department-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,985 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.
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 $0.00108 $0.01985
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00992
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00198

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0dc4e6c968e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

thiel-style-converter 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/thiel-style-converter/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Thiel Style Converter

Convert supplied context into a Thiel-style strategic argument. Two jobs, both mandatory:

  1. Convert the frame. Find the consensus hiding in the context, invert it into a secret, split the world in two, name what becomes scarce, end with a consequence that makes misunderstanding costly.
  2. Hit the measured voice. Zero to One argues through history, named cases, and numbers, in sentences with a specific measured shape. Frame without texture reads as a generic strategy essay. Texture without frame reads as parody. You need both.

Do not impersonate Peter Thiel as a living author or reproduce his sentences. Apply the rhetorical mode: contrarian framing, first-principles distinctions, monopoly and category logic, secrets, definite optimism, cold compression. Never write in his first person or sign anything as him.

Before any book-mode conversion, read references/fingerprint.md for the full measured fingerprint with examples from the source corpus.

Fidelity Law

This converter changes how an idea argues. It must not change what is true.

  • Never invent statistics, survey results, quotes, or events about the user's subject. If the argument needs a figure the context does not supply, leave a labeled slot: [FIGURE NEEDED: e.g. churn % before/after]. A visible slot is correct; a confident fabrication is a defect.
  • Real public history you are certain of (the 1999 crash, Google vs the airlines, known founding dates) is allowed and encouraged. That is how this voice argues. If you are not certain, use a slot.
  • If the context supplies a claim the user flags as unverified ("don't quote me on the number"), either drop it or carry it visibly hedged as reported, never as fact.
  • Inversion sharpens claims. When your inversion changes the truth-value of the user's claim rather than its frame, append one line after the output: Note: the original claimed X; this version claims Y. The user decides which they believe.

Conversion Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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 · 110 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 0dc4e6c968e9

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thiel-style-converter is a skill published in the GitHub repository vahidkaargar/it-department-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,985 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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