The Ray Dalio Council Skill for Claude Code
Five scouts. One verdict. Never second-guess a decision again.
Install it once in Claude Code. Type /dalio followed by any decision you are wrestling with. Five specialist scouts argue the question from different angles, a synthesizer weighs them by believability, and you get a clear PROCEED, HOLD, or INVESTIGATE verdict with a confidence score and the dissenting view.
Why Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and built it into the largest hedge fund in the world, managing over $150 billion at its peak.
He ran it for nearly 50 years. In that time, he correctly called the 2008 financial crisis, survived multiple market collapses, and compounded returns for clients in ways that most funds never achieve.
His book Principles lays out the system behind all of it. The core idea is called believability weighting: not all opinions deserve equal weight. The people with the strongest track record in a given domain should carry more influence over a decision than those without one.
He also believed you should never trust your own thinking unchallenged. The best decisions come from stress-testing your position against people who genuinely disagree with you, each arguing their strongest case, before you commit.
That is the exact system this skill runs. Five specialists. Fixed lenses. Weighted synthesis. One verdict.
Set up once. Never make a decision alone again.
Copy the install command
One line. Copy it from the box below.
Run it in your terminal
Paste it in your terminal and run. It clones the repo, drops the skill file in the right place, and cleans up. Done in seconds.
Type /dalio [your question]
Open Claude Code and type /dalio followed by any decision. The council convenes, argues the question, and delivers a verdict immediately.
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Real reactions from Cohort 1
What members said after their sessions.
Sophia
Session 4
“We have like 55 signups for our masterclass and we've only launched maybe four days ago.”
Jenny
Session 3
“It took like 5 minutes! I just took the one which took me one year, and I said make an essence of that, and what would be the most interesting free webinar?”
Alla
Session 3
“It looks amazing, and everyone loves my website, and they can't believe that I've created it. I can't believe it myself.”
SunDari
Session 1
“I used to pay all these people; now I can do it myself.”
Ronnie
Session 2
“I already had a draft website and it created a link to my calendar, a link to my link tree, a hyperlink for my WhatsApp, all the same photos. This is like 90% of the way there to the kind of website that I want.”
Alla
Session 4
“I've been comparing myself to a bird who now has wings. I feel so free.”
Sophia
Session 4
“I was able to go in and create my full email marketing funnel. It took off so much of the work of creating the workflow.”
Johanna
Session 1
“I have particles floating in the background, a circle following my cursor, things glowing. I could not believe I built this in one session.”
Ronnie
Session 1
“It pulled in my calendar link, my WhatsApp, all my deck photos. This is 90% of the website I wanted. In 45 minutes.”
Aaqib
Session 2
“I got a functional contact form on the website using Resend. I managed to get that set up in like 20 minutes. So I'm pretty stoked.”
Pina Maria
Session 4
“I said change it and it changed my whole website in just one second. Everything worked, it was so easy.”
Johanna
Session 4
“I was so on fire and so motivated because so many pieces of the puzzle I've been working on since a long time are coming together.”
Jasmine
Session 2
“It was great. It's been something that I really want to do, so I'm super grateful. It's so easy and we can just keep building over time. It's epic.”
Aaqib
Session 3
“I did a whole target audience and persona building exercise. I can safely say that I feel addicted to Claude.”
Marina
Session 3
“It's really empowering to learn and to see, with all these different tools, what becomes possible.”
SunDari
Session 4
“Excited that I can just ask Claude anything and be guided and supported through it all.”
Quincee
Session 4
“The website's looking great. I did a brand photoshoot this past week and I feel like a brand new person digitally.”
Alla
Session 2
“I got my website online. Thank you so much, it was amazing.”
Quincee
Session 4
“I feel magnetic. I feel guided.”
Copy. Paste. Done.
In the Business Automation Mastermind, this is the council we run before every major program decision. One command in your terminal and it is ready in Claude Code.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/josephtandle/ray-dalio-council/main/dalio-council.md -o ~/.claude/skills/dalio-council.mdRequires Git. Copies the skill to ~/.claude/skills/dalio-council.md. If your Claude Code skills live somewhere else, check the README for the manual install path.
specialist scouts argue every decision
possible verdicts: PROCEED, HOLD, INVESTIGATE
command to install
Everything inside this skill
Five scouts with fixed lenses, a believability weighting system, and a synthesizer that produces one clean verdict. Modeled on how Ray Dalio ran decisions at Bridgewater.
Makes the strongest case FOR proceeding. Upside, momentum, and the cost of inaction. Never raises risks -- that is not its job.
Makes the strongest case AGAINST. What are you missing? Which assumption is wrong? What would cause this to fail in 90 days?
Evaluates long-term alignment. Is this the right move at the right time? Does it serve your core goals 6 to 12 months out?
Identifies specific failure modes and worst-case scenarios. For each risk: how likely is it, and what is the blast radius if it hits?
Uses any context you provide to evaluate the decision from the ground level. If no context is given, it applies general business principles.
Three scouts saying PROCEED does not override one Domain Expert (w1.3) and one Strategist (w1.2) saying HOLD. The weights matter. Higher weight means more influence on the final verdict.
Confidence is calculated as a weighted average across all scouts. A 9/10 from the Domain Expert moves the number more than a 9/10 from the Optimist.
STRONG consensus means weighted confidence 6.0 or higher and 3 or more scouts agree. SPLIT means a close vote or low confidence, and the synthesizer names the dissent explicitly.
The weighted council agrees this is the right move. Still includes the strongest objection so you go in with eyes open.
The risks or strategic misalignment outweigh the upside right now. Often comes with a specific condition: "Proceed when X is resolved."
You do not have enough information to decide well. The council flags exactly what you need to find out before calling it.
/dalio Should we launch the referral program this week? -- Five scouts argue it cold. No context needed. Works for any decision.
/dalio context: "bootstrapped SaaS, 150 users, $5k MRR" -- Should we hire a salesperson? -- The Domain Expert uses your context. The other four still argue their fixed lens.
P.S. This is the same council that runs inside Joe's AI operating system before every major Mastermind decision. We named it after Ray Dalio because that is exactly where the idea came from.