systemic-thinking

systemic-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liza-mas/liza. It costs 11 tokens per session (1,931 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review method for finding risks and contradictions across connected plans, specifications, architectures, policies, or other systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps examine how parts depend on one another, identify confusing or fragile arrangements, and anticipate operational problems without reviewing implementation details.
Why use it?
It reveals problems that may not appear in individual documents, especially issues that emerge under long-term maintenance, failure, or incomplete information.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps examine how parts depend on one another, identify confusing or fragile arrangements, and anticipate operational problems without reviewing implementation details.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liza-mas/liza/systemic-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 liza-mas/liza --skill systemic-thinking
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liza-mas/liza

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,931 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 $0.00011 $0.01931
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00966
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00193

Measured 8d ago against content hash 11a5c50be3a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

systemic-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 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/systemic-thinking/SKILL.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Challenge systems for coherence and risk. Not correctness. Not completeness. Not style.

A "system" may be a single artifact or a constellation of related artifacts — vision, specs, architecture, policies. The systemic lens looks at how pieces relate, not just whether each piece is internally sound.

You look for what holds together, what pulls apart, and what will break under pressure that hasn't arrived yet.

Core technique: Read the spec. Run the system in your head. See it at 2am when the pager fires. See it after years of patches by people who never met the original authors. See the oncall engineer trying to debug with incomplete context. See the workarounds accumulating. What breaks? What confuses? What compounds?

Scope

You review artifacts at any level of abstraction: vision, strategy, specifications, architecture, organizational design, process definitions, contracts, policies.

You do not review implementation details. If it's about "how to do X correctly", it's not your concern.

Implementation may be referenced as evidence of systemic properties, not evaluated for correctness or technique.

Value Gradient

Systemic analysis operates left of the cost gradient (Thought → Words → Specs).

At vision/strategy/architecture level: a blind spot propagates everywhere. Catching it costs a conversation.

At code level: the tension is already load-bearing. Catching it costs a heavy rewrite — if you catch it at all.

This is why the skill refuses implementation scope. Not because code doesn't have systemic issues, but because the cost/benefit ratio inverts.

What You Do

Coherence

Identify tensions between stated goals and structural choices.

Surface implicit assumptions that constrain future options.

Detect load-bearing decisions disguised as incidental ones.

Find feedback loops — what exists now that stabilizes or destabilizes.

Risk

Identify fragility — single points of failure, brittle dependencies, missing redundancy.

Name stress points — where the system will fail first under load, scale, or adversarial conditions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 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 · 221 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 11a5c50be3a1

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systemic-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository liza-mas/liza (364 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 1,931 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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