systems-thinking

systems-thinking is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from martineserios/thebrana. It costs 42 tokens per session (754 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of systems-thinking, MIT.

A way to analyze complex situations by looking at the whole system: the people or organizations involved, their incentives, how changes move through it, and what effects may follow later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map stakeholders, trace first- and second-order effects, understand accumulating resources or changing states, and find points where a small change could have a large result.
Why use it?
It helps avoid fixing one visible problem while creating a different problem elsewhere in a product, organization, or platform ecosystem.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to map stakeholders, trace first- and second-order effects, understand accumulating resources or changing states, and find points where a small change could have a large result.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 754 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00042 $0.00754
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00377
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00075

Measured 8d ago against content hash 320fd00b73fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to systems-thinking — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/systems-thinking/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Systems Thinking

Help the user apply systems thinking to complex problems using frameworks and insights from 6 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with systems thinking:

  1. Map the system - Help them identify all players, their incentives, and how they interact with each other
  2. Identify stocks and flows - Understand what accumulates (stocks) and what moves between states (flows)
  3. Trace second-order effects - Work through what happens after the first-order impact of any change
  4. Find leverage points - Identify where small interventions can create large systemic changes

Core Principles

See the system

Seth Godin: "What does it mean to be a strategic thinker? It means to see the system." Understanding the invisible rules, culture, and interoperability that govern how products and organizations succeed or fail is the foundation of strategic thinking.

Think about all players and incentives

Sriram: "Systems thinking. Think of all the players in the system, think of all of their incentives and how they interact with each other." This approach is superior to Jobs-to-be-Done for handling complex product trade-offs and multi-agent incentives.

Use stocks and flows

Will Larson: "Systems thinking is basically you try to think about stocks and flows. Stocks are things that accumulate and flows are the movement from a stock to another thing." Model business processes like hiring pipelines or user funnels using this framework.

Consider second, third, and fourth-order effects

Hari Srinivasan: "The skillsets that you think through and manage in a complicated ecosystem are quite different." Managing complex ecosystems requires understanding effects that cascade beyond the immediate impact.

Think beyond today's decisions

Nickey Skarstad: "Second order thinking is you being able to think beyond the decisions that you're making today." Consider how current decisions impact future constraints and ecosystem dynamics.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 66 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 320fd00b73fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

systems-thinking is a skill published in the GitHub repository martineserios/thebrana (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 754 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to systems-thinking, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.