# Icahn Activist

> Use when evaluating Carl Icahn-style activist investments: undervalued assets, poor governance, capital allocation fixes, buybacks, asset sales, board pressure, and control catalysts.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-xuboyuebobb-investorskills-icahn-activist`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [xuboyuebobb](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/xuboyuebobb)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [xuboyuebobb](https://github.com/xuboyuebobb)
- **Source:** https://github.com/xuboyuebobb/investorskills/tree/main/skills/icahn-activist
- **Website:** https://questflow.ai

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-xuboyuebobb-investorskills-icahn-activist
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Icahn Activist

Use this skill to apply Carl Icahn-style activist thinking: identify a valuable but mismanaged company, define what should change, estimate value after change, and assess whether activism can force the catalyst.

## When To Use

- Activist campaign analysis
- Capital allocation, buyback, asset sale, spin, or board-change thesis
- Sum-of-the-parts undervaluation
- Governance and management pressure review

Trigger phrases include `Icahn`, `activist`, `board`, `buyback`, `asset sale`, `sum of parts`, `proxy fight`, and `capital allocation`.

## Process

1. Identify asset value and current mismanagement.
2. Define the activist demand.
3. Estimate value unlocked by action.
4. Assess ownership, board vulnerability, and shareholder support.
5. Define catalyst and campaign risk.

## Output Format

```md
# Icahn Activist View: [Company]

## Verdict
Activist Long / Watch / Needs Catalyst / Governance Too Hard / Pass

## Undervaluation
## What Must Change
## Control / Governance Path
## Value Unlock
## Risks
```

## Guardrails

- Do not assume management will act voluntarily.
- Do not ignore poison pills, voting control, or legal constraints.
- Do not overvalue assets that cannot be sold.

## Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used for governance, capital-allocation, and activist-catalyst analysis.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [xuboyuebobb](https://github.com/xuboyuebobb)
- **Source:** [xuboyuebobb/investorskills](https://github.com/xuboyuebobb/investorskills)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://questflow.ai

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-xuboyuebobb-investorskills-icahn-activist
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/xuboyuebobb
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