Agent skill

Tepper Distressed Macro

by questflowai in questflowai/investorskills

A skill your agent uses when evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets, policy backstops, capital structure, bank/credit stress, and asymmetric recovery trades.

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Install Tepper Distressed Macro

skills CLI
$ npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill tepper-distressed-macro -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install questflowai/investorskills tepper-distressed-macro --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/tepper-distressed-macro .claude/skills/tepper-distressed-macro && 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
tepper-distressed-macro
GitHub stars
1.9k
Token cost
~401 tokens
SKILL.md length
153 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
63
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets, policy backstops, capital structure, bank/credit stress, and asymmetric recovery trades.

  • Works in 5 steps: Identify panic, forced selling, and… → Map seniority: debt, preferred, common,… → Assess survival odds under policy… → …
  • Evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis 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

Tepper Distressed Macro is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets, policy backstops, capital structure, bank/credit stress, and asymmetric recovery trades.

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 David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets
  • Policy backstops
  • Capital structure
  • Bank/credit stress

Example prompts

  • “/tepper-distressed-macro”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Identify panic, forced selling, and capital-structure stress.
  2. Map seniority: debt, preferred, common, convertibles.
  3. Assess survival odds under policy response and liquidity support.
  4. Compare price to recovery value.
  5. Size around downside if rescue fails.

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

Tepper Distressed Macro loads about 401 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 153 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
~401

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). 153 words, ~401 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/tepper-distressed-macro/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
tepper-distressed-macro
description
Use when evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets, policy backstops, capital structure, bank/credit stress, and asymmetric recovery trades.
invest
./invest.md

Tepper Distressed Macro

Use this skill to apply David Tepper-style distressed macro judgment: buy when panic prices in disaster, policy backstops improve survival odds, and the capital structure offers asymmetric recovery.

When To Use

  • Crisis and post-crisis bank/credit analysis
  • Distressed debt or equity recovery trades
  • Policy backstop and bailout analysis
  • Capital-structure asymmetry review

Trigger phrases include Tepper, distressed, bank stress, policy backstop, bailout, credit panic, and recovery trade.

Process

  1. Identify panic, forced selling, and capital-structure stress.
  2. Map seniority: debt, preferred, common, convertibles.
  3. Assess survival odds under policy response and liquidity support.
  4. Compare price to recovery value.
  5. Size around downside if rescue fails.

Output Format

md
# Tepper View: [Asset]

## Verdict
Aggressive Buy / Probe / Wait / Avoid / Short

## Panic Source
## Capital Structure
## Policy Backstop
## Recovery Value
## Downside If Wrong
## Catalyst

Guardrails

  • Do not buy distressed equity when the fulcrum security is debt.
  • Do not assume government support protects common shareholders.
  • Do not ignore dilution and restructuring terms.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used for crisis, bank, credit, and policy-backstop trade 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/tepper-distressed-macro of questflowai/investorskills.

  • SKILL.md
  • invest.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2844d78

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Questions about Tepper Distressed Macro

What does Tepper Distressed Macro do?

A skill your agent uses when evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets, policy backstops, capital structure, bank/credit stress, and asymmetric recovery trades. Tepper Distressed Macro is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets, policy backstops, capital structure, bank/credit stress, and asymmetric recovery trades.

When should I use Tepper Distressed Macro?

Tepper Distressed Macro fits situations like: evaluating David Tepper-style distressed macro opportunities: crisis assets; policy backstops; capital structure; bank/credit stress.

How do I install Tepper Distressed Macro in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Tepper Distressed Macro in Codex?

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

Can I use Tepper Distressed Macro 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 tepper-distressed-macro -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/tepper-distressed-macro, .gemini/skills/tepper-distressed-macro, .github/skills/tepper-distressed-macro and .opencode/skills/tepper-distressed-macro in your project.

What does Tepper Distressed Macro need to run?

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

Does Tepper Distressed Macro 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 Tepper Distressed Macro 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 Tepper Distressed Macro use?

Tepper Distressed Macro 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 Tepper Distressed Macro use?

About 401 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 Tepper Distressed Macro?

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Who maintains Tepper Distressed Macro?

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.