outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike SKILL.md skillA
outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike from simbajigege/book2skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike@git:20260430.ba4df11Pins git:20260430.ba4df11 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- simbajigege/book2skills
- Path
skills/outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260430.ba4df11, committed Apr 30, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 26, 2026
- Size
- 10,476 bytes
- Repository stars
- 202
- License
- MIT
Apply The Outsiders CEO framework to assess capital allocation, per-share.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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 …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike@sha256:41f40668b11d1291The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260430.ba4df11, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 26, 2026 and Apr 30, 2026, about one every 35 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260430.ba4df11 latest | 2026-04-30 | ba4df11 | 10,476 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260326.bba24f2 | 2026-03-26 | bba24f2 | 17,978 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10476 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
simbajigege/book2skills · 202 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-08-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kpkierqe7wy7hwfw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simbajigege/book2skills/outsiders-ceo-capital-allocation-thorndike GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/41f40668b11d1291a9a3e82b4bd271c0fde83bc19e652e029a3eec958042c4e7
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