systems-thinking SKILL.md skillA
systems-thinking from ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/systems-thinking@v2026.10.5Pins v2026.10.5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills
- Path
skills/systems-thinking/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v2026.10.5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 18, 2026
- Size
- 3,340 bytes
- Repository stars
- 17
- License
- MIT
Use for systems thinking, or when a change may ripple beyond its target: "what are the side effects?", "why does this keep coming back?", "how do these teams or services affect each other?". Maps loops, delays and leverage points. Skip for single-step fixes.
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
# Systems Thinking See the whole before optimizing a part. End with recommendations that account for loops and delays. ## When to use - A problem keeps returning after "fixes". - A change in one team, service or policy may hit others (unintended consequences, incentives, queues, backlogs). - The user asks for root causes beyond a single person or component, or for a holistic view. Skip: single-step linear tasks, one-variable calculations, fixes that need no map of interactions. ## Before you start 1. State in one block: **System in focus** (what is inside the boundary) and **Pass** (Boundary, Structure, Dynamics, Delays, Leverage, Synthesis). 2. **Gather first.** Read the code, docs, tickets or metrics that describe how the parts connect before drawing the map. Ask up to 3 scoping questions only for what tools cannot answer. 3. **Light path.** Small ask: 2-3 bullets per phase. Never skip Structure before Leverage, even on the light path. 4. If the user already proposed an intervention, shorten Boundary but keep Structure and Dynamics. ## Phases ### 1. Boundary What is in and out for this analysis. One sentence on the system's purpose from a stakeholder's view. …
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How to install
mdr add ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/systems-thinking@sha256:97b4bc3567c12d4bThe line at the top of this page pins the label v2026.10.5, 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 5 versions of this file, between May 18, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 35 days.
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| v2026.10.5 latest | 2026-10-05 | f2bebb8 | 3,340 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 1866e36 | 3,541 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | ceb6606 | 3,454 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 6afc97b | 3,305 B | A | view · diff |
| v2026.5.17 | 2026-05-18 | 926b700 | 3,057 B | A | view |
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Source
ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills · 17 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mkkya2rh5jomcpcw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ysskrishna/ai-agent-skills/systems-thinking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/97b4bc3567c12d4bc93f96592af0e3991aefd3982f9cca13f86186bc6f843acc
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