Agent skill

Watsa Insurance Float

by questflowai in questflowai/investorskills

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float, contrarian allocation, special situations, and conservative downside-focused capital allocation.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Watsa Insurance Float

skills CLI
$ npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill watsa-insurance-float -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install questflowai/investorskills watsa-insurance-float --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/watsa-insurance-float .claude/skills/watsa-insurance-float && 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
watsa-insurance-float
GitHub stars
1.9k
Token cost
~501 tokens
SKILL.md length
210 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
63
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float, contrarian allocation, special situations, and conservative downside-focused capital allocation.

  • Works in 4 steps: Assess insurance underwriting and float… → Map capital allocation opportunities… → Demand margin of safety and downside… → …
  • Evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float
  • SKILL.md covers When To Use, Do Not Use When, Inputs Needed and Process, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Watsa Insurance Float is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float, contrarian allocation, special situations, and conservative downside-focused capital allocation.

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`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Banking and insurance. 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 Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float
  • Contrarian allocation
  • Special situations
  • Conservative downside-focused capital allocation

Example prompts

  • “/watsa-insurance-float”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Assess insurance underwriting and float quality.
  2. Map capital allocation opportunities across equities, credit, special situations.
  3. Demand margin of safety and downside protection.
  4. Measure progress by book/intrinsic value compounding.

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

Watsa Insurance Float loads about 501 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 50 tokens; SKILL.md has 210 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
~501

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). 210 words, ~501 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/watsa-insurance-float/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
watsa-insurance-float
description
Use when evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float, contrarian allocation, special situations, and conservative downside-focused capital allocation.
invest
./invest.md

Watsa Insurance Float Value

Use this skill to apply Prem Watsa-style judgment.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks for:

  • insurance float analysis
  • Fairfax-style capital allocation
  • contrarian value with insurance engine
  • float-driven compounding

Trigger phrases include Watsa, Fairfax, insurance float, contrarian value, float compounding.

Do Not Use When

  • The setup is outside this model's universe and another investor skill fits better.
  • Critical data is missing and the model requires it.
  • The user wants guaranteed returns or unbounded leverage.
  • The request is only generic market chatter with no decision.

Inputs Needed

  • Asset, portfolio, theme, or market context
  • Relevant financial, market, regime, or structural data
  • Time horizon and risk constraints
  • Current price/valuation or portfolio weights if sizing is requested

Process

  1. Assess insurance underwriting and float quality.
  2. Map capital allocation opportunities across equities, credit, special situations.
  3. Demand margin of safety and downside protection.
  4. Measure progress by book/intrinsic value compounding.

Output Format

md
# Watsa Insurance Float Value View: [Subject]

## Verdict
Own / Add On Fear / Hedge / Float Impaired / Pass

## Setup / Thesis

## Evidence

## Risks

## Action Plan

## Invalidation

## Missing Data

Guardrails

  • Do not force a trade when filters fail.
  • Do not ignore risk, liquidity, or regime constraints.
  • Do not mix this model with another unless comparison is requested.
  • Separate facts, assumptions, and judgment.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used as a judgment module for Funds, research workflows, monitoring, and risk-aware decision support.

© 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/watsa-insurance-float of questflowai/investorskills.

  • SKILL.md
  • invest.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2844d78

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Questions about Watsa Insurance Float

What does Watsa Insurance Float do?

A skill your agent uses when evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float, contrarian allocation, special situations, and conservative downside-focused capital allocation. Watsa Insurance Float is an agent skill from questflowai/investorskills. Use when evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float, contrarian allocation, special situations, and conservative downside-focused capital allocation.

When should I use Watsa Insurance Float?

Watsa Insurance Float fits situations like: evaluating Prem Watsa / Fairfax-style value investing: insurance float; contrarian allocation; special situations; conservative downside-focused capital allocation.

How do I install Watsa Insurance Float in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Watsa Insurance Float in Codex?

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

Can I use Watsa Insurance Float 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 watsa-insurance-float -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/watsa-insurance-float, .gemini/skills/watsa-insurance-float, .github/skills/watsa-insurance-float and .opencode/skills/watsa-insurance-float in your project.

What does Watsa Insurance Float need to run?

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

Does Watsa Insurance Float 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 Watsa Insurance Float 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 Watsa Insurance Float use?

Watsa Insurance Float 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 Watsa Insurance Float use?

About 501 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.

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Who maintains Watsa Insurance Float?

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.