think-futures-wheel SKILL.md skillA
think-futures-wheel 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-futures-wheel@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-futures-wheel/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Jun 1, 2026
- Size
- 3,614 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Produces a consequence map by tracing the first, second, and third order effects of a change or decision radiating outward from the center, surfacing ripples beyond the obvious and flagging the high-impact branches. Use when a decision has knock-on effects over time, or when first-order thinking is missing downstream risks and opportunities.
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 -->
# Futures Wheel
Most analysis stops at first-order consequences: the immediate, obvious results. A futures wheel pushes past that. The change goes at the center; first-order consequences radiate around it; each of those spawns second-order consequences ("and then what?"); then third-order. The structure forces attention onto the downstream and cross-domain ripples that linear thinking skips, and flags the branches worth a response. The output is a **consequence map**. For a quick pass, a lightweight "second-order effects" mode runs only the first-to-second step.
## When to Use
- A decision or change has knock-on effects that play out over time.
- First-order analysis is missing downstream risks or opportunities.
- Scanning the systemic side effects of a new idea before committing.
## When NOT to Use
- Simple, linear situations with no meaningful higher-order effects.
- When you need to decide, not explore (hand the map to a decision skill).
- When the result would be branches to irrelevance rather than a focused map.
## Instructions
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-futures-wheel@sha256:e075588c4961d966The 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.
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
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_irfdke4pnyii3fzg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-futures-wheel GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e075588c4961d966eac7082eb9732c2f236b52cb19ccbd45ebf358ee9573c9c5
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