# Economic Reasoning

> Economic decision-making for agents in EconomySpace. Activate when the agent observes currency, prices, income, tax, or trading opportunities to make informed financial decisions.

- Skill: `tsinghua-fib-lab/economic-reasoning` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add tsinghua-fib-lab/economic-reasoning`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/tsinghua-fib-lab/economic-reasoning/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML
- Author: tsinghua-fib-lab (https://skillmd.com/u/tsinghua-fib-lab)
- Updated: 2026-09-10
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/tsinghua-fib-lab/economic-reasoning

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# Economic Reasoning

Provides economic reasoning capabilities when the agent operates in an EconomySpace environment.

## What It Does

1. Analyzes the agent's financial state (currency, income, consumption)
2. Evaluates trading and employment opportunities based on cost-benefit analysis
3. Records economic decisions and reasoning as cognition memory

## When To Activate

- Observation contains financial information (currency, prices, income)
- Agent needs to make economic decisions (buy, sell, work, invest)
- Tax or policy changes affect the agent's financial situation

## Data Available via Environment

The EconomySpace environment provides these tools:
- `get_person(agent_id)` — current financial state
- `get_all_products()` — available products and prices
- `buy_product(agent_id, product_name, quantity)` — purchase
- `find_job(agent_id)` — find employment

