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Second Order Thinking

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Use when a decision, intervention, policy, product change, metric target, or system fix needs analysis beyond the immediate effect: ask what happens next, how actors respond, what incentives change, and what delayed or compounding consequences follow. Covers consequence chains, time horizons, stakeholder reactions, feedback loops, second- and third-order effects, and guardrail design. Do NOT use for reversing a goal to find failure paths (use inversion), decomposing assumptions to primitives (use first-principles-thinking), recurring issue clustering (use pattern-recognition), or system leverage-level diagnosis (use meadows-leverage-points when available).

Install with
Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI

Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.

Skill stats

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About this skill

Use when a decision, intervention, policy, product change, metric target, or system fix needs analysis beyond the immediate effect: ask what happens next, how actors respond, what incentives change, and what delayed or compounding consequences follow. Covers consequence chains, time horizons, stakeholder reactions, feedback loops, second- and third-order effects, and guardrail design. Do NOT use for reversing a goal to find failure paths (use inversion), decomposing assumptions to primitives (use first-principles-thinking), recurring issue clustering (use pattern-recognition), or system leverage-level diagnosis (use meadows-leverage-points when available).

Quick start

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About this listing

Category
Product & design
Reported license
CC-BY-4.0
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
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