Agent skill

Common Sense Index Investing Bogle

by simbajigege in simbajigege/book2skills

Apply John Bogle index investing rules for low-cost funds, asset allocation, fees, taxes, ETFs, advisers, and buy-hold discipline.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Common Sense Index Investing Bogle

skills CLI
$ npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill common-sense-index-investing-bogle -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install simbajigege/book2skills common-sense-index-investing-bogle --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/simbajigege/book2skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle .claude/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle && 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
common-sense-index-investing-bogle
GitHub stars
183
Token cost
~2.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,061 words
Files
6
Skills in repo
37
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Apply John Bogle index investing rules for low-cost funds, asset allocation, fees, taxes, ETFs, advisers, and buy-hold discipline.

  • Works in 4 steps: List each fund's exposure, cost,… → Apply broad-market and cost tests. → Identify conflicts or… → …
  • Tasks that involve Stock and market analysis
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, When to Use This Skill, Core Principle and Workflow Inventory, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Common Sense Index Investing Bogle is an agent skill from simbajigege/book2skills. Apply John Bogle index investing rules for low-cost funds, asset allocation, fees, taxes, ETFs, advisers, and buy-hold discipline.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 6 other files (for example `README.md`, `quotes/cost-matters-quotes.md` and `quotes/index-fund-quotes.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Stock and market analysis. The repository describes itself as: Create best skills based on best books.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Stock and market analysis

Example prompts

  • “/common-sense-index-investing-bogle”

Workflow steps

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

  1. List each fund's exposure, cost, turnover, tax efficiency, and complexity.
  2. Apply broad-market and cost tests.
  3. Identify conflicts or performance-chasing risks.
  4. Give Bogle-style verdict: prefer, avoid, simplify, or needs data.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit e5ba66c. 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

Common Sense Index Investing Bogle loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 41 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,061 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~41
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.3k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,061 words (~2,306 tokens).

“Knowledge source: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John C. Bogle.”

— opening of SKILL.md by simbajigege, Custom licence
name
common-sense-index-investing-bogle
license
Skill distillation for personal/educational use. Do not reproduce source passages verbatim.

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 5 other files in skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle of simbajigege/book2skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE.txt
  • README.md
  • quotes/cost-matters-quotes.md
  • quotes/index-fund-quotes.md
  • quotes/investing-wisdom-quotes.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e5ba66c

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Questions about Common Sense Index Investing Bogle

What does Common Sense Index Investing Bogle do?

Apply John Bogle index investing rules for low-cost funds, asset allocation, fees, taxes, ETFs, advisers, and buy-hold discipline. Common Sense Index Investing Bogle is an agent skill from simbajigege/book2skills. Apply John Bogle index investing rules for low-cost funds, asset allocation, fees, taxes, ETFs, advisers, and buy-hold discipline.

When should I use Common Sense Index Investing Bogle?

Common Sense Index Investing Bogle fits situations like: tasks that involve Stock and market analysis.

How do I install Common Sense Index Investing Bogle in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill common-sense-index-investing-bogle -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle in simbajigege/book2skills) into .claude/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Common Sense Index Investing Bogle in Codex?

Run `npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill common-sense-index-investing-bogle -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle in simbajigege/book2skills) into .agents/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Common Sense Index Investing Bogle 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 simbajigege/book2skills --skill common-sense-index-investing-bogle -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle, .gemini/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle, .github/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle and .opencode/skills/common-sense-index-investing-bogle in your project.

What does Common Sense Index Investing Bogle need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Common Sense Index Investing Bogle is instructions for the agent only.

Does Common Sense Index Investing Bogle 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 Common Sense Index Investing Bogle 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 Common Sense Index Investing Bogle use?

Common Sense Index Investing Bogle has a licence file (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Common Sense Index Investing Bogle use?

About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.2k 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 Common Sense Index Investing Bogle?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Common Sense Index Investing Bogle: Stock API (zhangxiangliang/stock-api, 2k stars), Tushare Data (zillionare/zillionare, 322 stars), Tradingview MCP (atilaahmettaner/tradingview-mcp, 5k stars) and Digital Oracle (komako-workshop/digital-oracle, 878 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Common Sense Index Investing Bogle?

simbajigege (a GitHub user) maintains it in simbajigege/book2skills, which has 183 GitHub stars. The repository holds 37 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 26, 2026.

Source: simbajigege/book2skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.