feedback-loops

feedback-loops is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from deciqAI/knowledge-skills. It costs 142 tokens per session (2,152 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A way of understanding systems in which an outcome feeds back into the next round of events. Some loops amplify change, while others counteract it; delays can cause overshooting or repeated swings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to diagnose recurring patterns, bullwhip effects, growth flywheels, death spirals, or unstable responses to a decision.
Why use it?
It explains why an intervention can produce unexpected growth, collapse, or oscillation instead of the intended result.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to diagnose recurring patterns, bullwhip effects, growth flywheels, death spirals, or unstable responses to a decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/deciqai/knowledge-skills/feedback-loops
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.

Any agent
npx skills add deciqAI/knowledge-skills --skill feedback-loops
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/deciqAI/knowledge-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 142 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,152 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00142 $0.02152
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01076
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00430
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00215

Measured 9d ago against content hash c954cf9c81c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

feedback-loops scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 9d 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- **Coach mode:** unfamiliar or no concrete case → guide, don't lecture.
feedback-loops/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Feedback Loops

Overview

A system has a feedback loop when its output circles back as input to the next cycle. Reinforcing loops amplify (compound interest, viral growth, bank runs, death spirals). Balancing loops self-correct (thermostats, price discovery, immune response). The critical complication is delay: when delay is long relative to response time, even well-designed balancing loops produce oscillation and overshoot — and operators systematically mismanage the system (Sterman 1989: supply-line underweight = 0.34 on a 0–1 scale).

Composes with: second-order-thinking · s-curve-technology-adoption · prisoners-dilemma · probabilistic-thinking

When to Use

Apply when: system shows non-linear surprise (collapse, oscillation, death spiral, growth flywheel); you are intervening in a complex system and success depends on how it responds; trends are not extrapolating well; bullwhip or oscillation in any quantity that should be steady; a capex/AI-adoption flywheel is compounding and you need to know when the balancing limits (power, supply, cost, AI-native competition) will bite and whether it will overshoot.

When NOT to use: one-shot linear decision with no feedback; insufficient data to map loops (hand-waving without structure); decision too time-bounded for delays to matter; exogenous shock dominates internal dynamics.

Coaching Novices (Adaptive Front Door)

  • Engine mode: concrete case → run The Process directly.
  • Coach mode: unfamiliar or no concrete case → guide, don't lecture.

In Coach mode, respond one step at a time. Each [WAIT] is a hard stop — output only that step's question, then stop.

  1. One-line what-it-is: when a system's output circles back as input, you have a feedback loop — it self-amplifies (reinforcing) or self-corrects (balancing), and delays make behavior far worse than expected.
  2. Check fit against When to Use / When NOT to use. If it's a one-shot linear decision, redirect.
  3. Elicit their real case: a specific behavior or dynamic they face right now — not a hypothetical.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Run The Process one step at a time with their input — map the loop, classify it, locate the delay.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

  1. Close by naming the leverage point uncovered and why it is higher than a parameter fix.

[WAIT — do not advance until user responds]

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 119 lines · 142 tokens per session scan B c954cf9c81c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

feedback-loops is a skill published in the GitHub repository deciqAI/knowledge-skills (10 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 142 tokens to every session and 2,152 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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