systems-leverage

systems-leverage is a skill for Claude Code from cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents. It costs 63 tokens per session (687 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A problem-solving guide for finding the parts of a system where a small change can affect its wider behaviour. It considers feedback loops, delays, accumulated resources and the rules that shape outcomes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to analyse recurring organisational problems, stalled adoption, unstable processes, shared-resource depletion and systems whose behaviour changes over time.
Why use it?
It helps when repeated local fixes do not solve a problem because the underlying structure keeps producing it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the zetetic-team-subagents plugin — 16 skills, 2 commands, 23 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to analyse recurring organisational problems, stalled adoption, unstable processes, shared-resource depletion and systems whose behaviour changes over time.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents/systems-leverage
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents --skill systems-leverage
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zetetic-team-subagents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 2 commands, 23 agents, 6 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00063 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00069

Measured 8d ago against content hash 80a9500fce3b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systems-leverage 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 8d 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.

skills/systems-leverage/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Systems Leverage

Problem shape: the system misbehaves as a whole while every part looks locally fine. Interventions at the parameter level keep failing because the structure — feedback loops, stocks, delays, governance rules — produces the behavior. The move: map the structure, rank the leverage points, intervene as high as is accessible.

Relevant geniuses

Agent Use when
meadows many possible interventions, unclear where to focus; recurring archetype; confusing accumulation-and-delay behavior
beer organization fails despite local fixes — audit the five viable-system functions; variety mismatch with the environment
kauffman system too rigid or too chaotic — tune connectivity; explore the adjacent possible instead of leaping
deming management reacts to noise; quality inspected in at the end instead of built into the process
ostrom a shared resource (build pipeline, on-call, budget, commons) is being depleted — check the eight design principles, rules-in-use vs rules-on-paper
margulis competing units would gain more by merging — symbiosis as an architectural option
rogers a change/tool isn't being adopted — segment the adopters, diagnose the chasm, audit the innovation's attributes
schelling macro pattern emerges from micro choices nobody intended — model the tipping points before moralizing the outcome

Invocation

  1. Pick the best-fit agent above. If two or more fit, run tools/genius-invoker.sh route "<problem>" and take the top ranked match.
  2. Load it: tools/genius-invoker.sh invoke <agent> "<problem>", then read agents/genius/<agent>.md in full.
  3. Apply the agent's <workflow> step by step and answer in its <output-format>. Deliver the structural diagnosis (loop, stock, rule) before any parameter recommendation.
  4. Typical chain: meadows maps and ranks leverage → beer audits the control structure → rogers plans the adoption. Run via tools/genius-invoker.sh compose meadows beer -- "<problem>".
  5. If no shape above matches, use a standard team agent instead.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 8d ago First seen · 51 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 80a9500fce3b

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systems-leverage is a skill published in the GitHub repository cdeust/zetetic-team-subagents (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.

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