AF cybernetic-thinking
Thinking-mode skill for LLMs: installs a control-theoretic and systems-theoretic cognitive operating system distilled from two books — Tsien Hsue-shen & Song Jian's "Engineering Cybernetics" (工程控制论) and Jin Guantao's "Cybernetics and Scientific Methodology" (控制论与科学方法论). Shapes how the LLM reasons about systems, not just how it writes patch diffs. Teaches the model to identify state and possibility space, model the plant as a black-box hypothesis, demand observability and information channels, verify stability and convergence, respect bounds, decouple harm, coordinate benefits, recognize ultra-stability and bifurcations, and close the loop before declaring success. Use when designing architecture, writing complex code, refactoring coupled modules, debugging non-deterministic systems, or any task where "correct AND robust" cannot be verified by a single happy path.
Thinking-mode skill for LLMs: installs a control-theoretic and systems-theoretic cognitive operating system distilled from two books — Tsien Hsue-shen & Song…
As a process F 37/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: templates/debugging-checklist.md, templates/change-proposal.md, references/stability.md
How to improve
- The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 0. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: templates/debugging-checklist.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: templates/change-proposal.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/stability.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/bounded-control.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/possibility-space.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/information-and-control.md - warning
missing-refreference to a missing file: references/system-evolution.md - note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "slug"
Process rating: all ten parameters 37/100
- 0Tools and files. 7 referenced file(s) missing: templates/debugging-checklist.md, templates/change-proposal.md, references/stability.md
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 2 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (cybernetic-thinking) differs from the folder (skill-cybernetic-thinking)
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 85Steps. 18 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2276 tokens
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 875: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 3 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 18 items
- +4Has examples (1 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (8 of 8)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 78.