"Passive income" is the internet's favorite fantasy — most of what's sold as passive is either a job in disguise, requires serious capital, or is a course selling you the dream. This gives the honest version: what each popular option actually requires (effort, money, risk), how passive it really is, and which — if any — fit your situation. The goal is a realistic path, not another rabbit hole. Not financial advice.
Passive Income Reality Check is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/passive-income-reality-check/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked how do I make passive income, is passive income real, best passive income ideas, or help me build income streams. Produces an honest teardown of the popular passive-income options (what they really require, how 'passive' they actually are, typical returns and risks), a match to your capital/skills/time, the scams and get-rich-quick traps to avoid, and a grounded next step — replacing the fantasy with a realistic path.
The Passive Income Reality Check Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 178,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/passive-income-reality-check curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/passive-income-reality-check/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/passive-income-reality-check/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/passive-income-reality-check/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/passive-income-reality-check/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\passive-income-reality-check\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/passive-income-reality-check/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Passive Income Reality Check is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{passive-income-reality-check-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Passive Income Reality Check [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/passive-income-reality-check/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-08-07 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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