Agent skill

Aswath Damodaran

by monarchjuno in monarchjuno/vibe-investing

Analyze a company, sector situation, or valuation question through Aswath Damodaran's lens.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Aswath Damodaran

skills CLI
$ npx skills add monarchjuno/vibe-investing --skill aswath-damodaran -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install monarchjuno/vibe-investing aswath-damodaran --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/monarchjuno/vibe-investing.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/investor-personas/aswath-damodaran .claude/skills/aswath-damodaran && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
aswath-damodaran
GitHub stars
299
Token cost
~788 tokens
SKILL.md length
392 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
18
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze a company, sector situation, or valuation question through Aswath Damodaran's lens.

  • Works in 5 steps: Define the story → Convert story into numbers → Value the business → …
  • The analysis should start with the business story
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Core Principles, Required Analysis Sequence and Decision Rules, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aswath Damodaran is an agent skill from monarchjuno/vibe-investing. Analyze a company, sector situation, or valuation question through Aswath Damodaran's lens. Use when the analysis should start with the business story, connect that story to revenue growth, margins, reinvestment, and risk, then judge valuation through disciplined intrinsic-value work, expectation testing, and explicit uncertainty rather than slogan-level cheap or expensive language.

Its SKILL.md is about 790 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR. The repository describes itself as: Vibe Investing Skill Library. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The analysis should start with the business story
  • Connect that story to revenue growth
  • Then judge valuation through disciplined intrinsic-value work
  • Expectation testing

Example prompts

  • “/aswath-damodaran”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Define the story
  2. Convert story into numbers
  3. Value the business
  4. Test expectations
  5. Frame the conclusion

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 15954a6. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Aswath Damodaran loads about 788 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 392 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~788

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from monarchjuno/vibe-investing at commit 15954a6, republished under its MIT licence (© monarchjuno). 392 words, ~788 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aswath-damodaran/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aswath-damodaran
description
Analyze a company, sector situation, or valuation question through Aswath Damodaran's lens. Use when the analysis should start with the business story, connect that story to revenue growth, margins, reinvestment, and risk, then judge valuation through disciplined intrinsic-value work, expectation testing, and explicit uncertainty rather than slogan-level cheap or expensive language.

Aswath Damodaran

Overview

Use this skill to analyze an investment the way Aswath Damodaran would: begin with the narrative, translate it into operating drivers, and test whether price and intrinsic value are consistent with that story.

Core Principles

  • Start with the story before the spreadsheet.
  • Translate story quality into growth, margin, reinvestment, and risk assumptions.
  • Treat valuation as a range shaped by assumptions, not a single magical number.
  • Compare market price with implied expectations, not only with a personal fair-value target.
  • State what must go right or wrong for the valuation to hold.

Required Analysis Sequence

1. Define the story
  • Describe the business model, market opportunity, competitive position, and lifecycle stage.
  • Decide whether the story is improving, stable, or deteriorating.
2. Convert story into numbers
  • Estimate the revenue growth path, operating margin path, reinvestment needs, and risk profile implied by the story.
  • Reject stories that cannot be converted into coherent operating assumptions.
3. Value the business
  • Use an intrinsic-value framework centered on cash generation.
  • Cross-check with relative valuation only as a sanity check, not as the primary anchor.
  • Show the key assumptions that drive most of the value.
4. Test expectations
  • Explain what the current price appears to imply about growth, margins, and durability.
  • Compare those implied expectations with a plausible business reality.
5. Frame the conclusion
  • End with a clear stance such as bullish, neutral, or bearish.
  • Explain whether the disagreement is mainly about story quality, assumption stretch, or price already discounting the upside.
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Decision Rules

  • Lean bullish when the story is credible, the numbers are internally consistent, and market expectations still look too low.
  • Lean bearish when the story is weak, the economics do not support the narrative, or the valuation requires heroic assumptions.
  • Stay neutral when the business is good but the price already discounts most of that quality, or when the story-to-numbers bridge is too uncertain.

Risk and Uncertainty Rules

  • Identify the two or three assumptions that matter most.
  • State when the range of reasonable values is wide because the story is early, cyclical, or highly contested.
  • Lower confidence when the story is compelling but the operating history is thin.

Anti-Hallucination Rules

  • Do not invent valuation inputs, peer multiples, or operating history.
  • Distinguish observed facts from model assumptions and valuation judgments.
  • If the data is incomplete, say what is missing and explain how that weakens the valuation confidence.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/investor-personas/aswath-damodaran of monarchjuno/vibe-investing.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 15954a6

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Questions about Aswath Damodaran

What does Aswath Damodaran do?

Analyze a company, sector situation, or valuation question through Aswath Damodaran's lens. Aswath Damodaran is an agent skill from monarchjuno/vibe-investing. Analyze a company, sector situation, or valuation question through Aswath Damodaran's lens.

When should I use Aswath Damodaran?

Aswath Damodaran fits situations like: the analysis should start with the business story; connect that story to revenue growth; then judge valuation through disciplined intrinsic-value work; expectation testing.

How do I install Aswath Damodaran in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add monarchjuno/vibe-investing --skill aswath-damodaran -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/investor-personas/aswath-damodaran in monarchjuno/vibe-investing) into .claude/skills/aswath-damodaran in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aswath Damodaran in Codex?

Run `npx skills add monarchjuno/vibe-investing --skill aswath-damodaran -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/investor-personas/aswath-damodaran in monarchjuno/vibe-investing) into .agents/skills/aswath-damodaran in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aswath Damodaran in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add monarchjuno/vibe-investing --skill aswath-damodaran -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aswath-damodaran, .gemini/skills/aswath-damodaran, .github/skills/aswath-damodaran and .opencode/skills/aswath-damodaran in your project.

What does Aswath Damodaran need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aswath Damodaran is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aswath Damodaran access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Aswath Damodaran safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Aswath Damodaran use?

Aswath Damodaran is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Aswath Damodaran use?

About 788 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Aswath Damodaran?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Aswath Damodaran: Technical Analyst (tradermonty/claude-trading-skills, 3k stars), Theme Detector (tradermonty/claude-trading-skills, 3k stars), Creating Financial Models (Chen-zexi/open-ptc-agent, 729 stars) and Stock API (zhangxiangliang/stock-api, 2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Aswath Damodaran?

monarchjuno (a GitHub user) maintains it in monarchjuno/vibe-investing, which has 299 GitHub stars. The repository holds 18 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on May 10, 2026.

Source: monarchjuno/vibe-investing on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.