systems-thinking

systems-thinking is a skill for Claude Code from fatihguner/foreman. It costs 78 tokens per session (3,535 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to systems thinking: understanding how parts of a complex organisation affect one another through feedback loops. It covers patterns such as fixes that create new problems, shifting responsibility, and limits to growth.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map causes and effects, identify reinforcing or balancing feedback, and diagnose recurring business problems across departments.
Why use it?
It helps explain why quick solutions can backfire and why problems such as stalled growth may come from relationships within the wider system.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the foreman plugin — 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to map causes and effects, identify reinforcing or balancing feedback, and diagnose recurring business problems across departments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fatihguner/foreman/systems-thinking
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 fatihguner/foreman --skill systems-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fatihguner/foreman

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install foreman, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 142 skills, 60 commands, 7 agents.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,535 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00078 $0.03535
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01767
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00707
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00353

Measured 5d ago against content hash 6f08a9bb0ef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systems-thinking 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 5d 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.

plugins/foreman/skills/systems-thinking/SKILL.md · 259 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 259 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Read runtime and advisory rules before applying this skill. Other Foreman layers and the catalog are in ../../content/, relative to this SKILL.md.

Systems Thinking

A startup lowers its prices to win market share. Sales volume surges. The support team, sized for the previous volume, becomes overwhelmed. Response times triple. Customer satisfaction collapses. Negative reviews proliferate. The sales team, now fighting a reputation problem, demands more marketing spend to overcome the brand damage. Margins tighten. The price cut that was supposed to accelerate growth has, through a chain of consequences no single decision-maker foresaw, created a crisis that threatens the company's survival. This is not bad luck. It is a system behaving exactly as its structure dictates.

Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline (1990) brought systems thinking into the management mainstream, though its roots extend to Jay Forrester's work at MIT in the 1950s and further back to cybernetics. The core insight is deceptively profound: the behaviour of any complex organisation is driven not by individual events or decisions but by the structure of relationships between its components. Change the events and the behaviour persists. Change the structure and the behaviour transforms.


The Framework

The Hierarchy of Understanding

Systems thinkers operate at three levels, each more powerful than the last:

Level 1: Events -- "What just happened?" Most management operates here. Revenue dropped. A key hire quit. A competitor launched a new feature. Event-level thinking produces reactive responses: cut costs, make a counter-offer, rush a feature release.

Level 2: Patterns -- "What trends are emerging?" More sophisticated. Revenue has declined for three consecutive quarters. Turnover in engineering has risen from 8% to 22% over 18 months. The competitor has released three features in our core space in the past year. Pattern-level thinking produces adaptive responses: restructure the sales team, review compensation benchmarks, reassess competitive strategy.

Read the full file on GitHub · 259 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. 5d ago First seen · 259 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 6f08a9bb0ef5

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systems-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository fatihguner/foreman (50 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 3,535 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-06.