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name: SystemsThinking
pack-id: pai-systemsthinking-v1.0.0
version: 1.0.0
author: danielmiessler
description: Structural analysis of complex systems grounded in Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Jay Forrester, Russell Ackoff, and the Santa Fe Institute tradition. Five workflows: Iceberg (walk Events → Patterns → Structures → Mental Models to find why the same thing keeps happening), CausalLoop (build causal loop diagrams with reinforcing R and balancing B loops), FindArchetype (match behavior to ~10 canonical patterns — Limits to Growth, Shifting the Burden, Tragedy of the Commons, Fixes That Fail, etc. — then apply the documented canonical intervention), FindLeverage (Meadows' 12 leverage points ordered by impact — parameters are weakest, paradigm transcendence is strongest), ConceptMap (Novak-style entity-relationship mapping). Core axiom: behavior is generated by structure; events are visible, structure is not. At Extended+ effort on anything with recurring behavior or cross-component coupling, systems thinking is the structural lens, not optional enrichment.
type: skill
platform: claude-code
source: PAI v5.0.0
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Structural analysis of complex systems grounded in Donella Meadows, Peter Senge, Jay Forrester, Russell Ackoff, and the Santa Fe Institute tradition. Five workflows: Iceberg (walk Events → Patterns → Structures → Mental Models to find why the same thing keeps happening), CausalLoop (build causal loop diagrams with reinforcing R and balancing B loops), FindArchetype (match behavior to ~10 canonical patterns — Limits to Growth, Shifting the Burden, Tragedy of the Commons, Fixes That Fail, etc. — then apply the documented canonical intervention), FindLeverage (Meadows' 12 leverage points ordered by impact — parameters are weakest, paradigm transcendence is strongest), ConceptMap (Novak-style entity-relationship mapping). Core axiom: behavior is generated by structure; events are visible, structure is not. At Extended+ effort on anything with recurring behavior or cross-component coupling, systems thinking is the structural lens, not optional enrichment.
This pack is designed for AI-assisted installation. Point your AI at this directory and ask it to install using INSTALL.md.
"Install the SystemsThinking pack from PAI/Packs/SystemsThinking/"
Your AI walks through a 5-phase wizard: system analysis, user questions, backup, installation, verification.
Archetypes.md
Foundation.md
LeveragePoints.md
SKILL.md
Workflows
The full skill source lives under src/. Read src/SKILL.md for detailed capabilities, workflows, and usage.
Built from the PAI v5.0.0 release skill at Releases/v5.0.0/.claude/skills/SystemsThinking/.
MIT — see PAI LICENSE.