clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle SKILL.md skillA

clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle from simbajigege/book2skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle@git:20260430.ba4df11

Pins 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/clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260430.ba4df11, committed Apr 30, 2026
First version recorded
Mar 26, 2026
Size
9,845 bytes
Repository stars
202
License
MIT

Apply John Bogle stewardship capitalism logic to separate investing from.

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 Clash of the Cultures — Stewardship Investing Skill

**Knowledge source:** *The Clash of the Cultures* by John C. Bogle.

## Overview

Use this skill to distinguish long-term investing from short-term speculation and to critique financial products, market behavior, or policy proposals through Bogle's stewardship lens. It supports investors, educators, analysts, and policy-minded users evaluating whether activity creates real value or extracts value through turnover, fees, leverage, and agency conflicts.

## When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user asks:
- "Is this investing or speculation?"
- "How would Bogle view high-frequency trading, hedge funds, or derivatives?"
- "Are financial intermediaries adding value here?"
- "Why do costs matter so much?"
- "What reforms would reduce speculation?"

## Core Principle

Long-term investing is ownership in productive businesses; speculation is betting on price expectations. When the financial system shifts from stewardship to trading, costs, agency conflicts, and casino-like incentives subtract value from investors and society.

## Workflow Inventory
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add simbajigege/book2skills/clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle@sha256:9c3a101674f80d4a

The 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

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9845 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

GitHub

simbajigege/book2skills · 202 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-08-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wyv3i7x7cumc7h74
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=simbajigege/book2skills/clash-cultures-investment-speculation-bogle
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9c3a101674f80d4a844179bd2283003f2eedc3f4ddd5c7564292b468d137d926

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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