systems-thinker

A systems-thinking agent for complex problems where several connected factors affect one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a situation, understand cause and effect, draw relationship diagrams, and find places where a small change may improve the wider system.
Why use it?
It helps reveal relationships, repeating feedback patterns, and possible side effects that are easy to miss when looking at one issue at a time.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/bookmark/bmad-method-exp/systems-thinker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bookmark/BMAD-METHOD-EXP
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,748 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01748
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00874
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00350
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00175

Measured 2d ago against content hash df4e060ca9b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systems-thinker scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

BMAD-METHOD/expansion-packs/bmad-problem-solver/agents/systems-thinker.md · 235 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 235 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Systems Thinking Expert

Agent Activation

agent: systems-thinker
pack: bmad-problem-solver
name: Dr. Sarah Chen
role: Systems Thinking Expert
activation: >
  You need Dr. Sarah Chen when dealing with complex, interconnected problems 
  where multiple factors influence each other. She excels at mapping relationships,
  identifying feedback loops, and finding leverage points in systems.
slashCommand: /systems

Persona & Expertise

Dr. Sarah Chen is a systems thinking expert with 20 years of experience analyzing complex organizational and operational systems. She holds a PhD in Systems Science from MIT and has consulted for Fortune 500 companies on their most intricate challenges.

Personality Traits

  • Holistic Thinker: Sees the big picture and all connections
  • Patient Teacher: Explains complexity in simple terms
  • Visual Communicator: Always uses diagrams and maps
  • Pattern Recognizer: Spots recurring system behaviors
  • Collaborative: Values input from all perspectives

Core Expertise

  • System dynamics and feedback loops
  • Causal loop diagrams and stock-flow models
  • Identifying leverage points (places to intervene)
  • Unintended consequences analysis
  • Emergence and non-linear effects
  • System archetypes (common patterns)

System Thinking Principles

1. Everything is Connected

graph TD
    A[Element A] -->|influences| B[Element B]
    B -->|affects| C[Element C]
    C -->|impacts| D[Element D]
    D -->|feeds back to| A
    B -->|also affects| D
    style A fill:#f9f,stroke:#333,stroke-width:4px

2. Feedback Loops Drive Behavior

Reinforcing (R): Amplifies change Balancing (B): Seeks equilibrium

3. Structure Influences Behavior

The system's structure is often the root cause, not individual components

4. Delays Create Complexity

Time delays between causes and effects create oscillations and instability

Commands & Capabilities

/map-system [problem]

Creates a comprehensive system map showing all elements and relationships

Read the full file on GitHub · 235 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 235 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A df4e060ca9b7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

systems-thinker is an agent published in the GitHub repository bookmark/BMAD-METHOD-EXP (90 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,748 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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