Agent skill

Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits

by simbajigege in simbajigege/book2skills

Apply Philip Fisher's growth stock investment framework from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.

ProprietaryAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits

skills CLI
$ npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install simbajigege/book2skills stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits --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/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits .claude/skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits && 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
stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits
GitHub stars
183
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
338 words
Files
16
Skills in repo
37
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Proprietary

At a glance

Apply Philip Fisher's growth stock investment framework from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.

  • A user wants to evaluate whether a company is a worthy long-term growth investment
  • SKILL.md covers Attribution, Skill Purpose, Routing Rules and Execution, plus 1 more section
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Assess management quality

What it does

Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits is an agent skill from simbajigege/book2skills. Apply Philip Fisher's growth stock investment framework from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. Use this skill whenever a user wants to evaluate whether a company is a worthy long-term growth investment, assess management quality, gather competitive intelligence via scuttlebutt, decide when to buy an outstanding stock at the right moment, or decide whether to hold or sell a current position. Covers the 15 Points checklist, management depth analysis, scuttlebutt intelligence gathering, entry timing, and hold/sell…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 24 other files (for example `README.md`, `subskills/m1_fifteen_points/module.md` and `subskills/m1_fifteen_points/references/case_library.md`).

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

When your agent uses it

  • A user wants to evaluate whether a company is a worthy long-term growth investment
  • Assess management quality
  • Gather competitive intelligence via scuttlebutt
  • Decide when to buy an outstanding stock at the right moment

Example prompts

  • “is X a growth stock”
  • “Fisher framework”
  • “15 points”
  • “/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits”

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.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • book2skills.com

    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

Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 190 tokens; SKILL.md has 338 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~190
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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 (Proprietary) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 338 words (~1,208 tokens).

“Knowledge source: Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher, revised 1996 Architecture: Multi-module parallel — 5 analytical dimensions, each with an independent module.md + case_library.md”

— opening of SKILL.md by simbajigege, Proprietary
name
stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits
license
Skill distillation of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip A. Fisher (1958). For personal and educational use. Do not reproduce source passages…

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 15 other files in skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits of simbajigege/book2skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • LICENSE.txt
  • README.md
  • stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits.zip
  • subskills/m1_fifteen_points/module.md
  • subskills/m1_fifteen_points/references/case_library.md
  • subskills/m2_management/module.md
  • subskills/m2_management/references/case_library.md
  • subskills/m3_scuttlebutt/module.md
  • subskills/m3_scuttlebutt/references/case_library.md
  • subskills/m4_when_to_buy/module.md
  • subskills/m4_when_to_buy/references/case_library.md
  • … and 4 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit e5ba66c

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Questions about Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits

What does Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits do?

Apply Philip Fisher's growth stock investment framework from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits is an agent skill from simbajigege/book2skills. Apply Philip Fisher's growth stock investment framework from Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.

When should I use Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits?

Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits fits situations like: A user wants to evaluate whether a company is a worthy long-term growth investment; assess management quality; gather competitive intelligence via scuttlebutt; decide when to buy an outstanding stock at the right moment.

How do I install Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits in simbajigege/book2skills) into .claude/skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits in Codex?

Run `npx skills add simbajigege/book2skills --skill stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits in simbajigege/book2skills) into .agents/skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits 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 stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits, .gemini/skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits, .github/skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits and .opencode/skills/stock-picking-by-common-stocks-uncommon-profits in your project.

What does Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits is instructions for the agent only.

Does Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: book2skills.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits 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 Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits use?

Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits carries a proprietary licence (from the LICENSE file in the skill folder). It is published on GitHub, but it is not open source: read the licence file before using or sharing it.

How many tokens does Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.8k 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 Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits?

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Who maintains Stock Picking By Common Stocks Uncommon Profits?

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.