think-iceberg-model SKILL.md skillA
think-iceberg-model from product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-iceberg-model@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills
- Path
skills/think-iceberg-model/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 5,915 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces an iceberg that moves a problem down four levels of causation - from the visible event, to the pattern over time, to the underlying structures, to the mental models that hold them in place - pairing each level with the intervention it implies to find systemic causes and higher-leverage fixes. Use when a problem keeps recurring despite event-level fixes, when a symptom is being treated as a one-off, or when the question is why this keeps happening and where to actually intervene.
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
<!-- thinking-framework-skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills | Apache-2.0 --> # Iceberg Model The default response to a problem is to react to the visible **event**. The iceberg model resists that by moving the problem down four levels, from the tip toward the mass under the water: the **event** (what just happened), the **pattern** (what has been happening over time), the **structures** (the policies, incentives, resource flows, and feedback loops that generate the pattern), and the **mental models** (the beliefs and assumptions that hold those structures in place). Descending past the event is the work, because structure and mindset are where higher-leverage interventions sit. Each level is paired with the intervention it implies: event-level fixes are reactive and low-leverage, structure- and model-level fixes are higher-leverage and slower. The output is an **iceberg**, not a discussion. ## When to Use - A problem keeps recurring despite repeated event-level fixes, hinting at a structural cause. - A symptom is being treated as a one-off when it is the latest instance of a pattern. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-iceberg-model@sha256:686f794c659a7692The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
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Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cwib222vxmf3qjhm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-iceberg-model GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/686f794c659a76924f631de492b231d57282960d6ecf5248071eb18de494a565
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