Agent skill

Icahn Activist

by questflowai in questflowai/investorskills

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets, poor governance, capital allocation fixes, buybacks, asset sales, board pressure, and control…

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Install Icahn Activist

skills CLI
$ npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill icahn-activist -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install questflowai/investorskills icahn-activist --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/icahn-activist .claude/skills/icahn-activist && 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
icahn-activist
GitHub stars
1.9k
Token cost
~398 tokens
SKILL.md length
148 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
63
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets, poor governance, capital allocation fixes, buybacks, asset sales, board pressure, and control…

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify asset value and current… → Define the activist demand. → Estimate value unlocked by action. → …
  • Evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets
  • 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

Icahn Activist is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets, poor governance, capital allocation fixes, buybacks, asset sales, board pressure, and control catalysts.

Its SKILL.md is about 400 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 Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets
  • Poor governance
  • Capital allocation fixes
  • Control catalysts

Example prompts

  • “/icahn-activist”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify asset value and current mismanagement.
  2. Define the activist demand.
  3. Estimate value unlocked by action.
  4. Assess ownership, board vulnerability, and shareholder support.
  5. Define catalyst and campaign risk.

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

Icahn Activist loads about 398 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 148 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~50
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~398

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). 148 words, ~398 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/icahn-activist/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
icahn-activist
description
Use when evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets, poor governance, capital allocation fixes, buybacks, asset sales, board pressure, and control catalysts.
invest
./invest.md

Icahn Activist

Use this skill to apply Carl Icahn-style activist thinking: identify a valuable but mismanaged company, define what should change, estimate value after change, and assess whether activism can force the catalyst.

When To Use

  • Activist campaign analysis
  • Capital allocation, buyback, asset sale, spin, or board-change thesis
  • Sum-of-the-parts undervaluation
  • Governance and management pressure review

Trigger phrases include Icahn, activist, board, buyback, asset sale, sum of parts, proxy fight, and capital allocation.

Process

  1. Identify asset value and current mismanagement.
  2. Define the activist demand.
  3. Estimate value unlocked by action.
  4. Assess ownership, board vulnerability, and shareholder support.
  5. Define catalyst and campaign risk.

Output Format

md
# Icahn Activist View: [Company]

## Verdict
Activist Long / Watch / Needs Catalyst / Governance Too Hard / Pass

## Undervaluation
## What Must Change
## Control / Governance Path
## Value Unlock
## Risks

Guardrails

  • Do not assume management will act voluntarily.
  • Do not ignore poison pills, voting control, or legal constraints.
  • Do not overvalue assets that cannot be sold.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used for governance, capital-allocation, and activist-catalyst analysis.

© 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/icahn-activist of questflowai/investorskills.

  • SKILL.md
  • invest.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2844d78

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Questions about Icahn Activist

What does Icahn Activist do?

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets, poor governance, capital allocation fixes, buybacks, asset sales, board pressure, and control…. Icahn Activist is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets, poor governance, capital allocation fixes, buybacks, asset sales, board pressure, and control catalysts.

When should I use Icahn Activist?

Icahn Activist fits situations like: evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets; poor governance; capital allocation fixes; control catalysts.

How do I install Icahn Activist in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Icahn Activist in Codex?

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

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

What does Icahn Activist need to run?

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

Does Icahn Activist 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 Icahn Activist 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 Icahn Activist use?

Icahn Activist 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 Icahn Activist use?

About 398 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k 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 Icahn Activist?

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Who maintains Icahn Activist?

questflowai (a GitHub organization) maintains it in questflowai/investorskills, which has 1,896 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.