Agent skill

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

by questflowai in questflowai/investorskills

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven…

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Install Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

skills CLI
$ npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill burry-asymmetric-contrarian -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install questflowai/investorskills burry-asymmetric-contrarian --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/questflowai/investorskills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian .claude/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian && 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
burry-asymmetric-contrarian
GitHub stars
1.9k
Token cost
~495 tokens
SKILL.md length
216 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
63
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven…

  • Works in 6 steps: Define consensus and why it may be wrong. → Verify with primary documents, not… → Identify the exact mispricing mechanism. → …
  • Evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian
  • SKILL.md covers When To Use, Process, Output Format and Guardrails, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven downside/upside.

Its SKILL.md is about 500 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `invest.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Investor Skills is an open-source library that turns durable investing judgment into portable, structured formats. It collects how great investors think, filter opportunities… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian
  • Unpopular trades: deep mispricing
  • Forced consensus errors
  • Catalyst-driven downside/upside

Example prompts

  • “/burry-asymmetric-contrarian”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Define consensus and why it may be wrong.
  2. Verify with primary documents, not summaries.
  3. Identify the exact mispricing mechanism.
  4. Define catalyst, time horizon, carry cost, and path risk.
  5. Size small enough to survive being early.
  6. Exit if facts invalidate the mechanism, not because the trade is unpopular.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2844d78. 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 (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian loads about 495 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 216 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~55
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~495

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 questflowai/investorskills at commit 2844d78, republished under its MIT licence (© questflowai). 216 words, ~495 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
burry-asymmetric-contrarian
description
Use when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven downside/upside.
invest
./invest.md

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

Use this skill to apply Michael Burry-style contrarian research: read primary sources, find a non-consensus mispricing, define the exact mechanism that makes the market wrong, and structure a trade with large asymmetry and explicit time/carry risk.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks for:

  • Contrarian long or short analysis
  • Complex asset mispricing
  • Bubble, fraud, credit, mortgage, or capital-structure review
  • A Burry-style short thesis or deep-value thesis
  • Whether a hated or ignored asset has asymmetric payoff

Trigger phrases include Burry, Big Short, contrarian, asymmetric, bubble, short thesis, credit default, deep value, and unpopular trade.

Process

  1. Define consensus and why it may be wrong.
  2. Verify with primary documents, not summaries.
  3. Identify the exact mispricing mechanism.
  4. Define catalyst, time horizon, carry cost, and path risk.
  5. Size small enough to survive being early.
  6. Exit if facts invalidate the mechanism, not because the trade is unpopular.

Output Format

md
# Burry View: [Asset]

## Verdict
Asymmetric Long / Asymmetric Short / Watch / Too Early / Pass

## Consensus Belief
## Variant Perception
## Primary Evidence
## Trade Structure
## Catalyst And Timing
## Carry / Path Risk
## Invalidation

Guardrails

  • Do not be contrarian for its own sake.
  • Do not ignore borrow, carry, margin, or timing risk.
  • Do not use secondhand summaries when primary docs exist.
  • Do not size so large that being early becomes fatal.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used as a contrarian asymmetry module for deep research, shorts, complex assets, and Fund risk reviews.

© questflowai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian of questflowai/investorskills.

  • SKILL.md
  • invest.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2844d78

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Questions about Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

What does Burry Asymmetric Contrarian do?

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven…. Burry Asymmetric Contrarian is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven downside/upside.

When should I use Burry Asymmetric Contrarian?

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian fits situations like: evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian; unpopular trades: deep mispricing; forced consensus errors; catalyst-driven downside/upside.

How do I install Burry Asymmetric Contrarian in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill burry-asymmetric-contrarian -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian in questflowai/investorskills) into .claude/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Burry Asymmetric Contrarian in Codex?

Run `npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill burry-asymmetric-contrarian -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian in questflowai/investorskills) into .agents/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Burry Asymmetric Contrarian 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 questflowai/investorskills --skill burry-asymmetric-contrarian -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian, .gemini/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian, .github/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian and .opencode/skills/burry-asymmetric-contrarian in your project.

What does Burry Asymmetric Contrarian need to run?

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

Does Burry Asymmetric Contrarian 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 Burry Asymmetric Contrarian 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 Burry Asymmetric Contrarian use?

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian 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 Burry Asymmetric Contrarian use?

About 495 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 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 Burry Asymmetric Contrarian?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Burry Asymmetric Contrarian: Arize Evaluator (github/awesome-copilot, 40k stars), LLM Evaluation (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars), Agent Evaluation (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars) and Michael Burry (monarchjuno/vibe-investing, 299 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Burry Asymmetric Contrarian?

questflowai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in questflowai/investorskills, which has 1,898 GitHub stars. The repository holds 63 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 23, 2026.

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