Agent skill

Leverage And Response Design

by GarethManning in GarethManning/education-agent-skills

Design a wise systems intervention from an existing analysis.

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Install Leverage And Response Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill leverage-and-response-design -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install GarethManning/education-agent-skills leverage-and-response-design --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/GarethManning/education-agent-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/systems-thinking/leverage-and-response-design .claude/skills/leverage-and-response-design && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
leverage-and-response-design
GitHub stars
840
Token cost
~3.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
692 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
160
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

Design a wise systems intervention from an existing analysis.

  • Works in 5 steps: Treating the first idea as the plan.… → Conflating higher leverage with better.… → Omitting the do-less-harm option. It… → …
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Does, Evidence Foundation, Input Schema and Prompt, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Leverage And Response Design is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a wise systems intervention from an existing analysis. Maps proposed actions against Meadows' leverage points, checks for unintended consequences, and generates alternatives.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: 165 evidence-grounded AI skills for teachers, school leaders and EdTech builders—pedagogy, learning science, curriculum, assessment and regeneration. Claude, Codex and Hermes.

Example prompts

  • “/leverage-and-response-design”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Treating the first idea as the plan. Students' initial proposals are usually parameter-level interventions on a symptom. The skill should…
  2. Conflating higher leverage with better. Paradigm-level change is higher leverage but also harder, slower, and less accessible. Match…
  3. Omitting the do-less-harm option. It feels like failure to recommend doing less. It is often the most systems-sophisticated response.
  4. Burden-shifting to students. Climate education, social justice work, and community resilience projects can inadvertently ask young people…
  5. Ignoring feedback loops. Listing what an action changes without asking what the system does next is not systems thinking — it is…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 6bbbce4. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Leverage And Response Design loads about 3.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 53 tokens; SKILL.md has 692 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~53
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 692 words (~3,235 tokens).

“Helps students and educators design a thoughtful intervention once they know where to act in a system. The skill fills the action gap in systems thinking: existing tools help students analyse systems (iceberg), surface assumptions (mental models, ladder of inference)…”

— opening of SKILL.md by GarethManning, Custom licence
name
leverage-and-response-design
disable-model-invocation
false
user-invocable
true
effort
medium
skill_id
systems-thinking/leverage-and-response-design
skill_name
Leverage and Response Design
domain
systems-thinking
version
1.0
evidence_strength
moderate
evidence_sources
Meadows (2008) — Thinking in Systems (leverage points hierarchy, 12 places to intervene), Meadows (1999) — Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System…
output_schema.type
object

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/systems-thinking/leverage-and-response-design of GarethManning/education-agent-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 6bbbce4

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Maps Geographyasgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks69k—~717Automated safety check: PassCC0-1.0
Responsive Imagesthedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist74k—~403Automated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Leverage And Response Design

What does Leverage And Response Design do?

Design a wise systems intervention from an existing analysis. Leverage And Response Design is an agent skill from GarethManning/education-agent-skills. Design a wise systems intervention from an existing analysis.

How do I install Leverage And Response Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill leverage-and-response-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/systems-thinking/leverage-and-response-design in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .claude/skills/leverage-and-response-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Leverage And Response Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill leverage-and-response-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/systems-thinking/leverage-and-response-design in GarethManning/education-agent-skills) into .agents/skills/leverage-and-response-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Leverage And Response Design in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add GarethManning/education-agent-skills --skill leverage-and-response-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/leverage-and-response-design, .gemini/skills/leverage-and-response-design, .github/skills/leverage-and-response-design and .opencode/skills/leverage-and-response-design in your project.

What does Leverage And Response Design need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Leverage And Response Design is instructions for the agent only.

Does Leverage And Response Design access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Leverage And Response Design safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Leverage And Response Design use?

Leverage And Response Design has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Leverage And Response Design use?

About 3.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 13k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Leverage And Response Design?

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Who maintains Leverage And Response Design?

GarethManning (a GitHub user) maintains it in GarethManning/education-agent-skills, which has 840 GitHub stars. The repository holds 160 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 28, 2026.

Source: GarethManning/education-agent-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.