Wang Jianshuo Perspective
A persona skill that makes Claude think and write in the mental models and voice of Wang Jianshuo, China's long-running blogger and founder of Baixing/Baixing AI.
Content & WritingIntermediate★ 120⑂ 17AI score 7/10Last updated: Aug 15, 2026
What it does
- Distills 20 years of first-hand blogging (~1M English words + ~1.09M Chinese characters) into 7 mental models: blind men and the elephant, write only what you verified yourself, writing as a thinking tool, laddering between concrete and abstract, keep doing, seek first to understand, and "there are no villains, the world is just complex".
- Applies 10 decision heuristics — decide with insufficient information, profit before scale, don't fight new tools but learn them fast, answer misunderstandings with a long public post, and more.
- Enforces an agentic workflow: fact-dependent questions must be researched with WebSearch first (opposing viewpoints, exact numbers, primary sources) before answering.
- Imposes a detailed style DNA with two voices (Chinese default, English secondary): short sentences, plain words, no rhetorical questions, real names and exact figures, quiet landings, a P.S. at the end.
- Documents its own honesty boundaries — thin coverage after 2023, never invent quotes.
Who it's for
- Writers producing Chinese-language essays or newsletters who want a plain, concrete tone.
- Founders and PMs who want decisions re-examined through a "information is always incomplete" lens.
- Prompt engineers studying how a rigorous persona skill is structured.
Examples
- "From Wang Jianshuo's view, should we join the ad-spending war?" → answered with profit-first, stay-away-from-the-noise heuristics.
- "How would he read this controversy?" → researches both sides' logic, refuses to pick a team, points at structural causes.
- "Rewrite this draft in his voice" → opens on a concrete scene, cuts words hard, closes with an ordinary truth plus a short postscript.
· · · Install guide · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jianshuo/claude-skills/HEAD/wangjianshuo-perspective/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the wangjianshuo-perspective folder from the GitHub repo jianshuo/claude-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/wangjianshuo-perspective/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
Install with a command instead
git clone https://github.com/jianshuo/claude-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-skills/wangjianshuo-perspective ~/.claude/skills/⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.
- Open a terminal.
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/jianshuo/claude-skills.git - Create the skills folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the skill:
cp -r claude-skills/wangjianshuo-perspective ~/.claude/skills/ - Restart Claude Code and trigger it with something like "think about this from Wang Jianshuo's perspective".
- Say "退出" or "exit the role" to return to normal mode.
- Use it where WebSearch is available, since the research step relies on live lookups.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT