Agent skill

Michael Burry

by monarchjuno in monarchjuno/vibe-investing

Analyze an investment through Michael Burry's hard-number contrarian lens.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Michael Burry

skills CLI
$ npx skills add monarchjuno/vibe-investing --skill michael-burry -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install monarchjuno/vibe-investing michael-burry --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/michael-burry .claude/skills/michael-burry && 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
michael-burry
GitHub stars
299
Token cost
~655 tokens
SKILL.md length
302 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
18
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Analyze an investment through Michael Burry's hard-number contrarian lens.

  • Works in 5 steps: Review hard valuation → Stress the balance sheet → Look for contrarian mispricing → …
  • The analysis should focus on deep value
  • 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

Michael Burry is an agent skill from monarchjuno/vibe-investing. Analyze an investment through Michael Burry's hard-number contrarian lens. Use when the analysis should focus on deep value, downside protection, balance-sheet skepticism, free-cash-flow and EV-based valuation, market overreaction, and the presence of concrete catalysts such as insider buying, asset sales, buybacks, or forced unwinds.

Its SKILL.md is about 660 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, covering Financial analysis. The repository describes itself as: Vibe Investing Skill Library. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The analysis should focus on deep value
  • Downside protection
  • Balance-sheet skepticism
  • Free-cash-flow and EV-based valuation

Example prompts

  • “/michael-burry”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Review hard valuation
  2. Stress the balance sheet
  3. Look for contrarian mispricing
  4. Identify catalysts
  5. State 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

Michael Burry loads about 655 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 302 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~655

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). 302 words, ~655 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/michael-burry/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
michael-burry
description
Analyze an investment through Michael Burry's hard-number contrarian lens. Use when the analysis should focus on deep value, downside protection, balance-sheet skepticism, free-cash-flow and EV-based valuation, market overreaction, and the presence of concrete catalysts such as insider buying, asset sales, buybacks, or forced unwinds.

Michael Burry

Overview

Use this skill to hunt for mispriced opportunities where hard numbers, downside protection, and contrarian positioning matter more than consensus comfort.

Core Principles

  • Start with downside and asset protection.
  • Prefer hard numbers over narratives.
  • Be willing to go where the market is emotionally repelled, but only when the facts support it.
  • Demand a catalyst or at least a plausible path to realization.
  • Treat leverage and accounting fragility as major disqualifiers.

Required Analysis Sequence

1. Review hard valuation
  • Focus on cash flow, enterprise value, asset coverage, and earnings power.
  • Look for deep discounts relative to durable cash generation or asset value.
2. Stress the balance sheet
  • Examine leverage, refinancing needs, liquidity, and exposure to forced dilution or distress.
  • Penalize fragile capital structures aggressively.
3. Look for contrarian mispricing
  • Ask whether the market is overreacting to short-term fear, litigation, cyclicality, or sentiment.
  • Distinguish justified pessimism from panic-driven mispricing.
4. Identify catalysts
  • Look for insider buying, buybacks, restructurings, asset sales, industry recovery, or other realization paths.
5. State the conclusion
  • End with a stance and explain whether the downside is protected enough to justify contrarian action.

Decision Rules

  • Lean bullish when valuation is cheap on hard metrics, the balance sheet can survive, and the market appears too pessimistic.
  • Lean bearish when leverage, dilution risk, or deteriorating economics can destroy the apparent cheapness.
  • Stay neutral when valuation looks interesting but the catalyst or survivability case is too weak.

Risk and Uncertainty Rules

  • State whether this is a timing problem, a solvency problem, or a thesis-quality problem.
  • Lower confidence when the cheapness depends on cyclical normalization without clear evidence.

Anti-Hallucination Rules

  • Do not invent insider activity, activist interest, or hidden assets.
  • Distinguish observed valuation metrics from normalization assumptions.
  • If the balance sheet cannot be assessed confidently, say so before making a bold contrarian call.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/investor-personas/michael-burry of monarchjuno/vibe-investing.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 15954a6

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Questions about Michael Burry

What does Michael Burry do?

Analyze an investment through Michael Burry's hard-number contrarian lens. Michael Burry is an agent skill from monarchjuno/vibe-investing. Analyze an investment through Michael Burry's hard-number contrarian lens.

When should I use Michael Burry?

Michael Burry fits situations like: the analysis should focus on deep value; downside protection; balance-sheet skepticism; free-cash-flow and EV-based valuation.

How do I install Michael Burry in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Michael Burry in Codex?

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

Can I use Michael Burry 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 michael-burry -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/michael-burry, .gemini/skills/michael-burry, .github/skills/michael-burry and .opencode/skills/michael-burry in your project.

What does Michael Burry need to run?

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

Does Michael Burry 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 Michael Burry 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 Michael Burry use?

Michael Burry 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 Michael Burry use?

About 655 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2.6k 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 Michael Burry?

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Who maintains Michael Burry?

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.