think-causal-loop-diagrams SKILL.md skillA
think-causal-loop-diagrams 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-causal-loop-diagrams@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-causal-loop-diagrams/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed Sep 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 2, 2026
- Size
- 7,597 bytes
- Repository stars
- 25
- License
- Apache-2.0
Builds a signed causal loop diagram by closing the feedback loops in a situation, labeling each loop reinforcing (R) or balancing (B) with its link polarities, and reading likely dynamics (spiral, goal-seeking, or oscillation) off which loop dominates. Use when a situation feeds back on itself - growth that funds more growth, a fix that recreates its own problem, capacity that relieves then re-attracts demand - and you need to see why it keeps accelerating, stalling, or overshooting. Not for a…
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 --> # Causal Loop Diagrams People narrate systems as one-directional chains and silently drop the loop-back. "More users, so more revenue" omits "...which funds acquisition, which brings more users" - the cycle that actually drives the behavior. This skill performs one distinct move: **close the feedback loops and sign them**. Trace each cycle back to its start so it closes, give every link a polarity (does a rise in A raise (+) or lower (-) B), and label the whole loop **reinforcing (R)** when the signs multiply to net-positive (it amplifies: a vicious or virtuous spiral) or **balancing (B)** when they multiply to net-negative (it counteracts: goal-seeking, or oscillation when delayed). Then read likely behavior off the structure: which loop dominates, and therefore whether the system spirals, seeks a goal, or oscillates. The output is a **signed causal loop diagram** framed as a structured argument about dynamics - not a prediction. It corrects a specific, well-evidenced failure (people misperceive feedback); it does not claim to predict the system or to teach systems… …
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How to install
mdr add product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills/think-causal-loop-diagrams@sha256:b72a2116b1190a63The 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 2, 2026 and Sep 15, 2026, about one every 105 days.
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| v0.1.0 latest | 2026-09-15 | 01156a8 | 7,597 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-02 | c5c4a9c | 7,553 B | A | view |
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Source
product-on-purpose/thinking-framework-skills · 25 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
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