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7,093Audience · generalComplexity · 1/5Setup · easy

In one sentence

A Claude Code skill that simulates the decision frameworks of Zhang Xuefeng, a famous Chinese education commentator, so you can ask blunt, data-driven questions about college major selection and career planning and get answers in his style.

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    What it does
      AI persona skill
      Career advice
      Major selection
    Encoded frameworks
      Five mental models
      Eight heuristics
      Speaking style
    Use Cases
      Gaokao planning
      Major selection
      Graduate decisions
    Audience
      Chinese students
      Parents
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Ask whether a specific college major is worth pursuing and get blunt job-market-data-backed advice modeled on Zhang Xuefengs frameworks

USE CASE 2

Get career and graduate school guidance framed around his five core mental models and decision heuristics

USE CASE 3

Learn how to build your own persona skill for a different thinker by studying how this one is structured

USE CASE 4

Install and try one of the related persona skills for Steve Jobs, Charlie Munger, or Richard Feynman in the same collection

What is it built with?

Claude CodeSKILL.md

How does it compare?

alchaincyf/zhangxuefeng-skillkska32/ebooksmagit/magit
Stars7,0937,0937,093
LanguageJavaScriptEmacs Lisp
Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity1/51/52/5
Audiencegeneralgeneraldeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Requires Claude Code CLI installed, activated with a single npx command from the repository.

So what is it?

This repository is a Claude Code skill that lets you interact with an AI modeled on the reasoning style of Zhang Xuefeng, a well-known Chinese education commentator famous for giving blunt, statistics-driven advice about college major selection and career planning. Rather than just mimicking his speech, the skill tries to reproduce his underlying decision frameworks so the AI can apply them to new questions you bring. Zhang Xuefeng is known in China for views like "society is a giant sieve" (filtering people by degree, housing, and job status), prioritizing choosing the right major over choosing a prestigious school, and working backward from job market data to evaluate whether a field is worth entering. The skill encodes five of his core mental models, eight specific decision heuristics he uses repeatedly, and detailed notes on his speaking style, including his short punchy sentences, blunt assessments, and northeastern Chinese dialect flavor. The README shows example conversations: a parent asks whether their child with a particular college entrance exam score should study finance, and the AI responds the way Zhang Xuefeng would, asking about family background in the industry, citing median employment data for finance graduates, and redirecting toward computer science or electrical engineering instead. Another example handles whether to pursue a graduate degree from a top school, and another addresses whether to study art when your family has no money. To use it, you install the skill with one command via npx and then invoke it inside Claude Code by asking questions framed around Zhang Xuefeng's perspective. The skill itself is a SKILL.md file accompanied by six research documents covering his published books, recorded interviews, media profiles, and a documented timeline of his career decisions. The skill was generated automatically by a related tool called Nuwa.skill, which takes a person's name, runs multiple research agents in parallel, distills a cognitive model, and assembles a deployable skill file. Several similar persona skills exist in the same author's GitHub account, covering Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Charlie Munger, Richard Feynman, and others.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I installed the zhangxuefeng-skill in Claude Code. My child scored 580 on the gaokao. Should they study finance or computer science? Give me Zhang Xuefengs take with job market reasoning.
Prompt 2
I want to build a similar persona skill for Charlie Munger using the Nuwa.skill tool. Walk me through how the SKILL.md and research documents are structured.
Prompt 3
I need to choose between attending a second-tier school with a strong CS department or a top school with a weak engineering program. What would Zhang Xuefengs framework say?

Frequently asked questions

What is zhangxuefeng-skill?

A Claude Code skill that simulates the decision frameworks of Zhang Xuefeng, a famous Chinese education commentator, so you can ask blunt, data-driven questions about college major selection and career planning and get answers in his style.

How hard is zhangxuefeng-skill to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is zhangxuefeng-skill for?

Mainly general.

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