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systems-thinking from martineserios/thebrana is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add martineserios/thebrana/systems-thinking@git:20260615.6d899e8Pins git:20260615.6d899e8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- martineserios/thebrana
- Path
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- git:20260615.6d899e8, committed Jun 15, 2026
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- MIT
Map players, stocks, flows, and feedback loops to understand why a system behaves the way it does — and where leverage lives.
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 **Map the system. Find the leverage. Stop fixing symptoms.** Donella Meadows: "You can't navigate well in an interconnected, feedback-dominated world unless you take your eyes off short-term events and look for long-term behavior and structure." Most interventions fail because they address events, not the system producing them. --- ## When to use - When a problem keeps recurring despite repeated fixes - When an intervention caused an unexpected side effect - When multiple stakeholders are working at cross-purposes - Before designing incentive structures, org changes, or platform architecture - When "it's complicated" — there are many interacting parts with non-obvious dependencies - Pairs with `/brana:second-order-thinking` for consequence tracing --- ## Step 1 — Name the system and its purpose What system are we analyzing? What is it supposed to produce? ``` AskUserQuestion: "What system are we mapping, and what is its goal or output?" ``` --- ## Step 2 — Identify players and incentives Who are the actors in this system? What does each one want? ``` Player | Goal | What they control | Key behavior -------|------|------------------|------------- …
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How to install
mdr add martineserios/thebrana/systems-thinking@sha256:ece05b201ccf49fdThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260615.6d899e8, 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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Source
martineserios/thebrana · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_p63674yrs4ztmodq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=martineserios/thebrana/systems-thinking GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ece05b201ccf49fdb3f361ca37c9c19bb4d941801ebebf236fa354d9b7940539
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.
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