foundations-cybernetics-vsm SKILL.md skillA
foundations-cybernetics-vsm from vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/foundations-cybernetics-vsm@v1.4Pins v1.4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public
- Path
skills/universal/foundations-cybernetics-vsm/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.4, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 5, 2026
- Size
- 14,967 bytes
- Repository stars
- 101
- License
- MIT
Diagnoses stalled teams or agent hierarchies with Beer's VSM and Ashby's Law. Use when orchestrators overload, escalations pile up, or team boundaries need redesign.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Cybernetics and Viable System Model Foundations ## When to Apply **Apply cybernetics-VSM when:** - Org or agent-system steering question — viability, requisite variety, escalation paths - "Why does this team/system keep failing despite individual competence?" — likely missing S2/S3*/S4 - Recursion across levels — same control pattern at squad / department / company - Algedonic channel design — when does a critical signal bypass hierarchy and reach S5 directly? - Variety-engineering — disturbance-to-signal-to-effective-response coverage (Ashby's Law) - An orchestrator agent or manager re-reviews everything and becomes the bottleneck; escalations pile up - "How many human reviewers do we need for N agents?" — answer with coverage and evidence, not a headcount ratio - Platform vs stream-aligned team boundaries (Team Topologies) where the question is who absorbs which demand **Skip and use simpler alternatives when:** - Single team, no recursion, no orchestration question — VSM is overkill - Org-design question is purely about reporting lines — use a simple RACI, not VSM - Throughput/bottleneck question — use foundations-theory-of-constraints …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/foundations-cybernetics-vsm@sha256:083f1a3d40aa017fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.4, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_76y6mvpytjqrciak)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 5, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 7 days.
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| v1.4 latest | 2026-10-12 | 34b57f4 | 14,967 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.4 | 2026-10-05 | 5db538c | 14,946 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public · 101 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_76y6mvpytjqrciak GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vasilyu1983/ai-agents-public/foundations-cybernetics-vsm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/083f1a3d40aa017f50ef745ce6e0deced2fa7a424dfaaf1e4fedd1cba48bd7bf
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.