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Michael Burry Investing Skill
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Talentedleo
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· v1.0.0
· MIT-0
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Install in OpenClaw
/install michael-burry-investing
Description
Michael Burry's contrarian value investing cognitive operating system — a framework for identifying bubbles, applying margin of safety, and making concentrat...
Usage Guidance
This skill is internally coherent and low-risk from a system/security perspective because it is instruction-only and asks for no credentials or installs. Practical cautions: (1) It emulates a public figure and provides investment recommendations — do not treat outputs as professional financial advice; verify any trade ideas independently or consult a licensed adviser. (2) The skill may assert factual claims (holdings, notional sizes, dates) that could be outdated or inaccurate; check primary sources (the Substack, filings, news) before acting on them. (3) If you plan to have the agent act on trades or integrate with brokerage APIs, require minimal, purpose-limited credentials and explicit human approval flows. Finally, if provenance matters to you, verify the author/homepage (meta.json points to a GitHub repo) before installing.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: michael-burry-investing
Version: 1.0.0
The skill bundle is a comprehensive persona and knowledge base designed to simulate the investment philosophy and communication style of Michael Burry. It contains no executable code, scripts, or network-enabled components. The instructions in SKILL.md are strictly behavioral, guiding the AI agent to adopt specific analytical frameworks (e.g., margin of safety, supply-side gluttony) without any indicators of prompt injection intended to exfiltrate data or bypass security controls.
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Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
Name/description, metadata, and SKILL.md consistently describe a Michael Burry–style investing persona and decision framework. There are no unexpected environment variables, binaries, installs, or config paths required that would be unrelated to that goal.
Instruction Scope
The SKILL.md is an extensive instruction set for voice, reasoning rules, examples and historical references — all internal to the skill. It does not instruct the agent to read local files, access system environment variables, or call external endpoints beyond citing public sources. Note: because the skill is explicitly designed to give investment reasoning and recommendations in a named person's voice, users should be aware of financial/advice and impersonation risks (legal/ethical), and the agent may confidently state claims that are outdated or speculative if prompts aren't constrained.
Install Mechanism
No install spec and no code files to write to disk; instruction-only skills are low risk from an installation/execution standpoint.
Credentials
The skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths and the runtime instructions do not reference secrets — this is proportional for a persona/heuristics skill.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill is not flagged always:true and uses normal agent invocation. It does not request persistent system-wide privileges or modify other skills' configs.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install michael-burry-investing - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/michael-burry-investing - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.0
Michael Burry Investing Skill 1.0.0
- Launches a contrarian value investing system inspired by Michael Burry's principles and writings.
- Includes practical frameworks for identifying bubbles, applying margin of safety, and making concentrated bets.
- Features detailed Q&A examples reflecting Burry's thinking on bubbles, growth stocks, consensus pressure, and housing.
- Documents Burry's mental models, including the margin of safety framework, supply-side gluttony, and historical parallels.
- Captures the distinct voice, reasoning process, and investing rules used by Burry throughout his career.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Michael Burry Investing Skill?
Michael Burry's contrarian value investing cognitive operating system — a framework for identifying bubbles, applying margin of safety, and making concentrat... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 74 downloads so far.
How do I install Michael Burry Investing Skill?
Run "/install michael-burry-investing" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Michael Burry Investing Skill free?
Yes, Michael Burry Investing Skill is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Michael Burry Investing Skill support?
Michael Burry Investing Skill is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Michael Burry Investing Skill?
It is built and maintained by Talentedleo (@talentedleo); the current version is v1.0.0.
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